Software Engineer at The Computer Merchant, LTD (TCM) in Boston, MA

Job description

• WAGE RANGE*: 75-87/ hour
• JOB NUMBER: 239604
• Software Engineers to support Server Framework

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the enhancement and maintenance of one or more IMS modules or components as a senior member of an agile scrum team. Provide engineering troubleshooting assistance to customer support teams and other development teams
•  Work under minimal supervision to analyze, design, develop, test, and debug small to medium software enhancements and solutions within business and technical problem domains
•  Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to turn business requirements of moderate complexity 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 suggestions 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 scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
•  Participate in cross-team group activities to complete assignments

Requirements

• 4 to 7 years of progressively responsible professional software engineering experience preferably in a financial services product delivery setting
•  2 to 5 years of experience in financial services developing solutions for Portfolio Management, Trading, Compliance, Post-Trade, IBOR or Wealth Management is strongly desired
•  Demonstrated experience with object-oriented programming, compiler or interpreter technologies, embedded systems, operating systems, relational databases (RDBMS), scripting and new/advanced programming languages
•  Able to contribute to design specs with some assistance from senior staff
•  Able to work on small to medium projects with little to no supervision and on more complex tasks with moderate oversight
•  Very good 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 strongly desired
• 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.

Skills

Required

• Object-oriented programming
• Compiler or interpreter technologies
• Embedded systems
• Operating systems
• Relational databases (RDBMS)
• Scripting
• New/advanced programming languages
• Java
• C#
• SQL
• JavaScript
• Agile development methodology

Preferred

• Financial services domain knowledge

Benefits

• * While an hourly range is posted for this position, an eventual hourly rate is determined by a comprehensive salary analysis which considers multiple factors including but not limited to: job-related knowledge, skills and qualifications, education and experience as compared to others in the organization doing substantially similar work, if applicable, and market and business considerations. Benefits offered include medical, dental and vision benefits; dependent care flexible spending account; 401(k) plan; voluntary life/short term disability/whole life/term life/accident and critical illness coverage; employee assistance program; sick leave in accordance with regulation. Benefits may be subject to generally applicable eligibility, waiting period, contribution, and other requirements and conditions. Benefits offered are in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and subject to change at TCM's discretion.