Charles River Developer

Job Title: C#/Charles River Developer
Job Location: 100% Remote
Interview: Online Assessment and Video Interview
Job Duration: LongTerm Contract

Core Capabilities & Attributes:

• High achiever with ambition and humility letting performance speak for itself
• Demonstrable passion for technology through personal projects or opensource involvement
• Craftsmanlike approach to building software with a focus on engineering excellence
• Relentless efforts to improve processes and deliver value to the business
• Exceptional technology skills recognized as an expert in the domain
• Advocate of collaborative software engineering techniques and methods:
  • Agile development
  • Continuous integration
  • Code review or pairing
  • Unit testing
  • Refactoring
• Strong interpersonal skills able to establish and maintain close working relationships with:
  • Portfolio Managers
  • Research Analysts
  • Traders
  • Support Personnel
  • Other engineers
  • Senior business people

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Order Management and Charles River products
• Involvement in a Charles River upgrade
• Front office software development experience with an Asset Manager Hedge Fund or Investment Bank
• Advanced degree in Computer Science Math or Financial Engineering
• Solid understanding of tradeable financial instruments (securities derivatives) and capital markets
• Experience building containerized applications and deploying to public or private clouds (AWS Azure etc.)
• Proficiency with AWS services (Lambdas EC2 instances ECS clusters step functions)
• Strong knowledge of relevant database technologies (SQL Server Sybase DynamoDB Postgres)
• Opensource involvement (e.g. wellcurated blog accepted contribution community presence)

Minimum Qualifications:

• Strong academic record with a degree in Computer Science Mathematics Engineering or Physics from a leading university
• 8 years of progressive software engineering experience
• Expert knowledge in one or more programming languages (C# Python Java)
• Proficient on Linux platforms with knowledge of various scripting languages
• Familiarity with various programming styles (OO functional) and design patterns
• Strong commitment to TestDriven Development writing simple adaptive and iterative code
• Enthusiastic embrace of DevOps culture and collaborative software engineering
• Experience working in a dynamic fastpaced Agile team environment
• Strong interpersonal skills for establishing and maintaining close working relationships with:
  • Portfolio Managers
  • Traders
  • Support Personnel
  • Other engineers
  • Senior business people