Front-End Engineer, Emerging Lead

Summary:

Act as a front-end engineer responsible for the enhancement and maintenance of one or more Alpha/Charles River Development modules or components of an agile scrum team. Provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams within Charles River.

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 C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, React 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 end product

• Identify ways of improving development test methodologies contribute to and related test methodology frameworks

• Conduct manual tests to ensure a high quality end product

• Provide troubleshooting on large, mission critical client implementations

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  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

• Junior engineers should expect critique and guidance on designs. Mid-level engineers will demonstrate more independence of design and development. Senior-level engineers are expected to drive technical excellence, coach and inform application level architectures and roadmaps.

Qualifications:

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.

Recommended Experience:

• Experience with Single Page Application (SPAs) using React and Angular.

• Experience with prominent React packages and best practices, including Redux and RxJs.

• Knowledge of JavaScript with extensive experience in ReactJS and Typescript

• Familiarity with test standard and popular supporting frameworks such as Jest, Cypress, and Jasmine

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  Familiarity with the NodeJS ecosystem, including NPM and/or Yarn.

• Experience delivering single page applications in cloud-based deployments with major cloud vendors (Azure preferred)

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

• Experience in financial services developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management is strongly desired

• Demonstrated problem solving abilities involving multi-tiered, high-performance database applications

• Demonstrated ability to design and develop simple software solutions to business and technical problems of high complexity

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills

• Able to work well with peers in a collaborative team environment

• A minimum of 3 years working with an Agile development methodology

Supervisory Responsibility:

☒Individual Contributor ☐Team Lead ☐Manager of Managers

Travel:

May be required on a limited basis.