Senior Software Engineer - Java Backend, Officer

Drive technical excellence by working independently to 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

Provide thought leadership in the design of product architecture within and beyond the team’s scope of responsibility

Direct problem solving for projects or major phases of projects to resolve advanced 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.

Experience in the development of cloud-native services (Azure experience a bonus)

Experience of microservice architectures and Kubernetes

Knowledge and experience working with Kafka and message-based systems

Experience with Snowflake will be a strong asset.

Experience with SQL is preferred

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 expert level troubleshooting on large, mission critical client implementations.

Actively assist team leaders 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.