About the project

• Charles River Development (CRD) is the FinTech division of State Street. Together with State Street’s Middle and Back-office services, Charles River’s cloud-based Front Office technology forms the foundation of the State Street Alpha® Platform, the first front-to-back solution in the industry.
• Our vision is to be the world’s leading investment platform, shaping the future of the industry and driving new levels of technology-led innovation, resiliency, efficiency and growth for investors and the people they serve.
• CRD Engineering organization is innovating and transforming the platform by moving away from monolithic software to utilizing next generation cloud-based technology that leverages Microsoft Azure, Kafka, Snowflake, etc.
• Industry momentum has seen CRD grow over 135% in headcount over the last 5 years, and we continue to grow. As a digital innovation leader, we invest into our solutions, processes, systems, and talent.
• As a Senior Software Engineer Team Lead you will be responsible for the enhancement and maintenance of one or more Alpha/Charles River Development modules or components of an agile scrum team as a leader for ca. 6-10 engineers. Provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River.
• This is an opportunity to work within a very strong, senior level engineering team and help to develop challenging new products in the financial space.
• This job is a hybrid role with at 3 days in the office per week, which you can perform from our offices in Krakow and Gdansk.
• Stack: Java, Spring, Microservices, React, SQL, C#/.Net, Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, Snowflake

Your responsibilities

• Analyze, design, develop, test, and debug large and complex software enhancements and solutions within Charles River’s business and technical problem domains including modifications to core frameworks and other primary facilities critical to system operation
• Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to create simple and sustainable software solutions for complex problems
• Direct problem solving for projects or major phases of projects to resolve software technical issues
• Develop, test, debug, and implement software programs, applications and projects using Java, C#, SQL, JavaScript, or other related software engineering languages as well as keeping abreast of emerging technologies impactful to CRDs business.
• Provide informed guidance and critical analysis of proposed changes during code reviews.
• Write unit and automation tests to ensure a high-quality product.
• Identify ways of improving development test methodologies contribute to and related test methodology frameworks
• Conduct manual tests to ensure a high-quality product.
• Provide troubleshooting on large, mission critical client implementations
• Engage in the agile software development process by adhering to and advancing the CRD scrum methodology, including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
• Plan and coordinate cross-team activities groups to complete assignments.
• Mentoring and guiding on designs to Junior Engineers.
• Demonstrate more independence of design and development.
• Lead a team of engineers to deliver planned projects.

Our requirements

• 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.
• 4-8 years of experience in Java development - preferably in the FinTech (financial markets) area
• Experience in leading a team of 6-10 people
• Experience in front-end development using React or Angular
• Experience in development of cloud native services (Azure, AWS, Google cloud) - nice to have
• Knowledge of SQL and SQL Server/Oracle databases and experience with RBDMS
• Experience with C#/.Net, Kafka, Snowflake, Kubernetes, Tomcat will be a strong asset

Technologies we use

What we offer

• Permanent contract from day one

• Additional holidays (Birthday Day Off, 3rd and 5th year anniversary Day Off and others)

• Gold medical package for employees and their families (partner and children)

• Premium life insurance package and private pension plan

• Cafeteria system

• Wide range of soft skills training, technical workshops, language classes and development programs

• Opportunities to volunteer your time to company-driven initiatives, employee networks or organizations of your choice

• Variety of well-being programs

• Possibility of work in rapidly growing global organization on interesting projects