We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer II (Vice President) in Java who recognized technical authority and senior individual contributor within Charles River Development (a State Street company). This role operates with broad autonomy and significant influence, driving architecture, technical strategy, and engineering excellence across one or more major platforms, domains, or cross-cutting initiatives.
Requirements
- Serve as a principal technical authority for one or more key initiatives or core modules within Charles River platforms
- Define and evolve system architecture, design standards, and engineering best practices across teams
- Provide long-term technical strategy and thought leadership to senior engineering leaders and executive stakeholders
- Drive adoption of modern cloud architecture, frameworks, and emerging technologies where they deliver clear business value
- Lead resolution of high-risk, complex, or business-critical challenges
- Analyze, design, develop, test, debug, and implement large-scale, multi-tier, mission-critical enterprise systems
- Lead complex enhancements that span multiple components and teams
- Set a high bar for code quality, performance, scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability
- Establish and enforce design review, code review, and technical governance practices
- Identify systemic technical debt and lead cross-team efforts to remediate it
- Champion automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and operational excellence
- Translate complex technical concepts into clear recommendations for senior management and non-technical stakeholders
- Mentorship & Talent Development: Serve as a technical mentor and role model for engineers at all levels
- Client & Production Support: Provide expert-level troubleshooting for large, complex, and high-visibility client deployments
- Act as an escalation point for critical production or client issues
- Help design durable, long-term solutions to recurring operational or client-impacting problems
Benefits
- 401K with company match
- Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
- Paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
- Access to Employee Assistance Program
- Incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards
- Eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
