Java/Python Software Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Benefits:

• Competitive salary

Location
Boston, MA

Experience Level
Mid–Senior Level (4 or more years of experience)

Role Overview
The Software Engineer Contractor supports the technology team by maintaining, upgrading, and building the infrastructure and applications that drive enterprise business operations. Working as an individual contributor within a cross-functional Agile squad, this role is responsible for building custom applications and creating robust integrations with third-party vendor platforms (such as Charles River Development IMS/OMS and SimCorp Dimension). The technical environment features a combination of mature, on-premises applications alongside modern, cloud-based architectures.

Key Responsibilities
Application Development & Engineering
• Design, develop, and maintain clean, well-formed, and easy-to-maintain code in alignment with enterprise software development best practices.
• Build, configure, and optimize custom applications and integrations to support core business units (such as Portfolio Management, Operations, Trading, and Compliance).
• Author thorough unit tests to ensure sufficient automated test coverage and system resilience prior to deployment.
• Conduct and participate in technical peer reviews to ensure code quality, compliance, and architectural alignment.

Third-Party Integrations & Cloud Modernization
• Create, optimize, and support robust data integrations with third-party vendor platforms, including Charles River Development (CRD) IMS/OMS and SimCorp Dimension (SCD).
• Support cloud migration efforts, transitioning legacy on-premises applications to modern, scalable cloud environments.
• Write efficient and performant SQL queries to manage, retrieve, structure, and store transactional financial data.

Squad Collaboration & Governance
• Collaborate actively with cross-functional squad members (including Squad Leads, Business Analysts, Quality Engineers, and peer developers) and business stakeholders.
• Adhere to information security guidelines and contribute actively to the organization's engineering standards library.
• Provide technical estimates, status updates, and participate in scheduled Agile/Scrum ceremonies.

Required Qualifications
• 4 or more years of professional experience as a software engineer.
• Professional proficiency in backend software development using Java and/or Python (or other widely adopted backend programming languages).
• Strong experience writing, optimizing, and executing SQL to retrieve, store, and manipulate data.
• Working knowledge of cloud architecture principles, preferably within Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Hands-on experience working in Linux operating system environments.

Preferred Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Finance, or a related technical field.
• Professional exposure to financial services, investment systems, and/or asset management domains.
• Direct experience configuring or developing integrations with Charles River Development (CRD) IMS/OMS platforms.
• Familiarity with SnapLogic or other enterprise-level ETL and workflow orchestration tools.
• Front-end development experience writing user interfaces using Vue.js or similar JavaScript-based frameworks.
• Experience supporting cloud migration projects from legacy, on-premises architectures to cloud-native platforms.

Core Skills & Attributes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to interact productively with both technical teammates and business stakeholders.
• Positive, collaborative, and team-oriented attitude with a strong commitment to quality.
• Desire to hold oneself and peer engineers to a high standard of work and engineering excellence.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical capabilities.

Flexible work from home options available.