Sr. Software Engineer - C#, AVP

Who we are looking for:


The Manager Workbench Team, a premier team in the Charles River Investment Management System, is seeking a talented senior level software engineer. We are a close-nit group of developers, QA and product managers who take extreme pride in our work and are dedicated to the excellence of the module we maintain and enhance. Even though Manager Workbench is a UI application, the majority of our effort is devoted to heavily abstracted logic. Our module has been recently rearchitected and its foundation is based on well designed and implemented code. Our primary technology is C#, some Java, and some SQL.


We are looking for someone who likes to create elegant solutions executed in computer code. You candidacy will be greatly aided if you can present and discuss the code of some project that you have worked on in the past during the interview process.


Why this role is important to us:


Charles River Development empowers investment firms worldwide with a cloud-based platform that streamlines and automates the investment process across asset classes. As part of State Street Alpha®, we bring together data, technology, and services to help clients make confident decisions and scale with agility. Our open ecosystem and global support model enable investment professionals-from portfolio managers to private markets specialists-to navigate complexity and drive innovation. At Charles River, we thrive on collaboration, continuous improvement, and a shared commitment to shaping the future of financial technology.


Preferred qualifications and education:

• A minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience in C# used to create complex applications that utilize concurrency, multithreading and other advanced techniques.
• A minimum of 8 years of experience in designing and developing software solutions in a highly transactional, concurrent, event driven system. Financial Trading systems experience is a huge plus.
• Extensive experience in RDBMS (Oracle and SQL Server) with a solid understanding of the transactional database intricacies and expertise in writing complex and high performing SQLs.
• UI development experience in C# is preferred.
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms, object-oriented programming, design patterns.
• Solid ability to write clean , maintainable code with extensive code coverage via unit tests.
• Able to contribute to complex design specs in consultation with senior staff
• Able to work on medium to large projects with no supervision and on more complex tasks with minimal oversight
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Able to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment
• Prior experience troubleshooting and fixing database and application performance issues is preferred
• Great understanding of Agile development methodology and software development practices and principles.

Recommended 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.

Salary Range:
$90,000 - $157,500 Annual


The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.


Employees are eligible to participate in State Street's comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.


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