Company profile

State Street Investment Management is the asset management arm of State Street Corporation, previously known as State Street Global Advisors (SSGA). We are one of the world's largest investment managers, recognized for our pioneering role in indexing and quantitative investing, and for creating the first U.S.-listed Exchange Traded Fund (ETF). We offer a comprehensive range of investment solutions, including passive and active strategies, and provides asset management, research, and advisory services to a global client base of institutional investors. State Street Investment Management reflects the company's commitment to growth, innovation, and a partnership-focused approach to delivering tailored investment solutions

Why this role is important to us

The team you will be joining is a part of State Street Investment Management, one of the largest asset managers in the world. We partner with many of the world's largest, most sophisticated investors and financial intermediaries to help them reach their goals through a rigorous, research-driven investment process. With over four decades of experience and trillions of dollars in assets under management, we offer one of the broadest selections of services across asset classes, risk profiles, regions and styles. As pioneers in index, ETF, and ESG investing, we are always inventing new ways to invest. As part of project pathways initiative, you would be involved in defining the target state platform and operating model of state street investment management arm.

Responsibilities

• Work under minimal supervision to analyze, design, develop, test, and debug medium to large software enhancements and solutions within Charles River's business and technical problem domains.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to turn moderately complex business requirements into working and sustainable software.
• Participate in the design of product architecture within the team's scope of responsibility.
• Develop, test, debug, and implement software programs, applications and projects using Java, C#, SQL, JavaScript or other related software engineering languages.
• Provide thoughtful insight and direction in code reviews.
• Write unit and automation tests to ensure a high-quality end product.
• Conduct manual tests to ensure a high-quality end product.
• Contribute to written design and API documentation and participate in customer documentation process.
• Actively participate in the agile software development process by adhering to the CRD Scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
• Participate in cross-team group activities to complete assignments.
• Provide mentoring to junior engineers/interns when required.
• Provide technical support in analyzing production issues L3/L4 to ensure the uninterrupted services to the business.
• Effective collaboration with the Boston, Business counterparts and other application teams

Preferred qualifications and education

• 8+ years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience in core and enterprise java, including collections API, concurrency, multithreading, JDBC and web services.
• 5+ years of experience in designing and developing software solutions in a highly transactional, concurrent, event driven systems. Financial Trading systems experience is a huge plus.
• Hands‑on software development experience delivering, testing, debugging, and implementing applications using Java, with practical exposure to C#, SQL, and JavaScript, and the ability to work across multiple technologies as required by the role.
• Experience working with Java and Spring‑based applications, including contributing to low‑latency, high‑throughput, and globally distributed systems under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Demonstrated ability to produce clean, maintainable, and well‑tested code, with experience writing unit tests and supporting strong code quality and coverage standards.
• Experience with cloud-native architecture on AWS and/or Azure, including modern data platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
• Familiarity with messaging and streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, Apache Flink) for event-driven and real-time processing systems.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools, like Grafana, Prometheus, and Open Telemetry.
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting application and database performance issues, with an understanding of common performance bottlenecks in distributed systems.
• Working understanding of Agile development methodologies and software engineering best practices, with experience collaborating within cross‑functional delivery teams.
• Demonstrated understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI concepts, with the ability to practically apply AI‑enabled tools (e.g., Copilot or similar) to improve productivity, decision‑making, and delivery outcomes.
• Working knowledge of Python for scripting, automation, or data analysis is highly desirable.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in financial services domain including exposure to OMS and EMS systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, enabling effective collaboration with technical peers and business partners.
• BE or any equivalent educational qualification in Computer Science background.

About State Street

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.

We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you'll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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