Java Backend Engineer, Senior Associate

Summary :

Contribute to the enhancement and maintenance of one or more Charles River IMS modules or components as a senior member of an agile scrum team. Provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River.

Responsibilities :

Work under minimal supervision to analyze, design, develop, test, and debug small to medium software enhancements and solutions within Charles River's business and technical problem domains

Develop, test, debug, and implement software programs, applications and projects using Java, SQL, JavaScript, or other software related engineering languages

Provide thoughtful insight and suggestions in code6 reviews

Write unit and automation tests to ensure a high quality end product

Conduct manual tests to ensure a high quality end product

Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the CRD scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives

Qualifications : Education :

B.S. degree (or foreign education equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics or other technical course of study required. MS degree strongly preferred.

Experience :

7 to 10 years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience preferably in a financial services product delivery setting

Minimum 6 years of experience in Java is required.

4 years of experience in developing microservices using Springboot

2 to 3 years of experience on Azure, AWS or any other cloud systems is required.

2 years of experience in writing test cases using Junit is strongly desired

Good to have experience on Javascript, Angular or React JS

Good to have experience on messaging services like Azure service bus or Rabbit MQ

1 to 2 years of experience in financial services developing solutions for Portfolio Management is desired

Working experience on Docker is added advantage

Experience with object-oriented programming, compiler or interpreter technologies, embedded systems, operating systems, relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new / advanced programming languages

Able to work on small to medium projects with little to no supervision and on more complex tasks with moderate oversight

Good written and verbal communication skills

Able to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment

A minimum of 2 years working with an Agile development methodology strongly desired

Supervisory Responsibility :

Individual Contributor Team Lead Manager of Managers

Travel :

May be required on a limited basis.

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Skills Required

Javascript, Sql, Angular, Aws, Java, Azure, React Js, Springboot, Docker, Junit, Rabbit Mq