**Principal Software Engineer and Team Manager**

Job description

Your new role

As Principal Software Engineer - Team Lead you will be responsible for the improvement and maintenance of one or more of our Alpha/Charles River Development modules or components in an agile scrum team.

• Analyze, design, develop, test and debug large and complex software enhancements and solutions within Charles River business and technical problem areas, including modifications to core functionality and other programmatic system interfaces.
• Collaborate with business analysis and product managers to create scalable and sustainable software solutions to complex problems.
• Design, test, debug and implement software programs, applications and projects using Java, C++, SQL, JavaScript or other related emerging software engineering languages, and stay abreast of emerging technologies relevant to CRD.
• Provide sound judgment and critical analysis of proposed changes during code reviews.
• Writing unit and automation tests to ensure a high-quality product.
• Identify opportunities to improve development/test methodologies to contribute to the evolution of test methodology frameworks.
• Troubleshooting major, important client critical issues during implementation.
• Participate in the agile software development process by adhering to and promoting the CRD Scrum methodology, including participation in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog maintenance and retrospectives.
• Planning and coordination of activities via team groups to fulfill tasks.
• Management and mentoring of engineers in the team.
• Contribute to the growth of the site through various activities such as recruitment, participation in internal and external meetings.

Requirements

• B.S. degree (or foreign educational degree) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics and related technical disciplines or equivalent. M.S. degree preferred.
• 4+ years of experience in the full lifecycle of commercial software development.
• 3+ years of experience with cloud platforms and technology (Azure, AWS, etc.).
• 5+ years experience with Java.
• Oracle or similar SQL server - not required.
• Strong program design and web services development skills with Java.
• Architectural design and implementation capability for high performance and low latency systems.
• Experience with web front-end technologies such as React, Angular, JavaScript.
• Experience in financial services, development of solutions for portfolio management, risk, trading, compliance, tax, reporting.
• Experience with SCRUM and strong SQL skills.
• Strong in agile methodology.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Technical leadership - influence.
• Experience with REST and FIX (S)APIs is a strong advantage.

We offer

• Permanent contract from day one.
• Additional vacation days (birthday, 3rd and 5th anniversary and others).
• Golden medical package for employees and their families (partners or children).
• Premium life insurance package and private pension insurance.
• Cafeteria system.
• Wide range of soft skills training, technical workshops, language courses and development programs.
• Opportunities to donate time to company-driven initiatives, employee resource groups or organizations of your choice.
• Variety of well-being programs.
• Opportunity to work on interesting projects in a fast-growing global organization.