On Call Algorithmic Trading Software Developer Jobs in Boston, MA

Software Engineering & Development, AVP
Who we are looking for
Globallink, a division of state street Global Markets, is a market leader in providing electronic trading platforms for multiple asset classes. The primary focus will be on developing enhancements and supporting the ongoing evolution of State Street's industry-leading foreign exchange trading and supporting services. These systems serve customers around the global and enable them to make smart trading decisions, execute trades, and settle large currency/derivatives trades, as well as provide them with necessary analytics and data services.
The role is a principal application developer with experience with Java, Oracle, JMS, Spring Boot, and state-of-the-art Web UI technologies. This is a hands-on developer position within a small development team in a very-fast-paced environment. The position is for a senior developer to be involved in sophisticated software development.
Why this role is important to us
The team you will be joining is a part of a trading technology function that is vital to the company.
What you will be responsible for
As a [Job Title], you will:
- Develop backend and Web UI code that adheres to architecture and overall design of the trading platform
- Write unit tests to ensure that implemented code introduces zero defects
- Adhere to company SDLC, IR Risk, and compliance policies

• Efficiently use AI to maximize developer productivity and efficiency

What we value
These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Work closely with Product owners, architects, QA engineers, and other development team members to use current technologies where appropriate, and implement full life-cycle, full stack development tasks.
• Develop enhancement and support the ongoing evolution of State Street's industry-leading foreign exchange trading and supporting services.
• Write comprehensive documentation, unit tests and review code of other developers.
• Use common design patterns to write commercial, fault tolerance, multi-threaded, real-time, performance critical (measures in microseconds), and scalable systems software including Java multi-threading, messaging brokers, and JVM optimizations.
• Develop and test well-designed/usable user interfaces; leveraging modern state-of-the-art Web UI technologies using HTML5, CSS, JSP, Servlets, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, JavaScript, ES6, NodeJs, TypeScript, GraphQl, ReactJS, Redux, Jest, Enzyme, AJAX, JSON and related Web UI technologies
• Use Web Sockets (WSS) and Restful calls for communication.
• Develop complex database programs, queries, and utilities utilizing SQL and PL/SQL for packages/stored procedures with Oracle.
• Expert in core Java - efficiently use complex multi-threading techniques and other stata-of-the-art Java features.
• Leverage experience with developing server-side Java code for highly utilized web application in an enterprise environment utilizing a popular Java 2 platform Enterprise edition (J2EE) application server (e.g. Websphere, Tomcat etc.).
• Excellent knowledge and in-depth work experience with messaging brokers such as Rabbit MQ, Kafka, and/or JMS-based messaging brokers (Active MQ, Sonic MQ).
• Integration with other financial applications using standard API (FIX) and propriety / custom APIs in Foreign Exchange Domain.
• Excellent knowledge and demonstrated work experience with AI tools and platforms such as GitHub Copilot to improve developer productivity and efficiency, increase testing coverage, and introduce innovation to the platform.
• Leverage experience in developing CI/CD pipeline scripts using using Jenkins, Groovy, JFrog, GIT etc.
• The highest level of written and verbal communication skills and ability is required to customize communications for each target audience. This includes representing the company in a professional manner while interacting with clients.
• This position requires constant communication with other developers, QA team members, and product managers world-wide, including in New York, Boston, London, Singapore, Australia and Tokyo.
• Ability to efficiently troubleshoot critical code, especially code related to client integrations for sensitive clients, must be able to be on-call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This includes providing a quick turnaround in patching code with short notice, such as within a day.

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or its equivalent in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field; plus
• 5 years of experience in full stack development

Additional requirements
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to work with development and QA team members in collaborative fashion
Work Requirement

• Work from Boston location in the US
• Ability to work from office at least 4 days / week

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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Salary Range:
$120,000 - $202,500 Annual
The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.
Employees are eligible to participate in State Street's comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (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 our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.
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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.
Discover more information on jobs at StateStreet.com/careers
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It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.