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Senior Software Engineer

Center for Research in Security PricesChicago, Illinois, United StatesOnsite

This position utilizes software engineering skills to contribute to the CRSP Market Indexes platform, developing innovative and high-quality solutions using modern technologies. As a senior member of the software engineering team, you will apply your technical expertise and local knowledge to extend the platform, mentor peers, and provide technical leadership. You will participate in all stages of the development lifecycle, including initial research, discovery, solution prototyping, development, debugging, deployment to production, operational readiness, and support.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:


  • Implement, design, and maintain value-adding, performant, and scalable solutions which enhance and extend the CRSP Market Indexes platform

  • Make independent, high-impact contributions through a comprehensive focus on quality, testable code.

  • Collaborate with all levels of the organization during the phases of the software development lifecycle to craft and build workable implementation plans, timelines, and ultimately, exceptional solutions.
  • Provide technical guidance to team members through education and coaching of best practice object-oriented principles.
  • Maintain mutual and positive working relationships with all members of CRSP through an environment of cooperation, coordination, and respect.
  • Proactively identify risk and provide solutions.
  • Provide production support on a rotating basis.
  • Performs other duties as assigned. 

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:


  • Development experience in a professional environment:
  • With a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field with 5 years of software development experience in a professional environment or
  • Associate’s degree with 7 years of software development experience in a professional environment or
  • At least 8 years of software development experience in a professional environment.
  • Advanced proficiency with multiple object-oriented languages, including C#, Java, C++.
  • Experience in the securities and/or financial industry and/or additional education in finance.
  • Proficiency in working with and writing queries against relational databases, such as SQL Server, Postgres, or MySQL.
  • Knowledge/expertise in web development using JavaScript.
  • Experience with Git or similar version control.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:


  • Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Computer Science or related field.
  • Strong problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical staff, users, and partners.
  • Experience leading software projects and mentoring junior engineers.
  • Familiarity with advanced C# programming concepts (async/await, managing allocations, concurrency strategies, race conditions, generics, etc.)
  • Experience using the latest versions of .NET, with an awareness of the open-source landscape and major libraries.
  • Experience diagnosing and resolving relational database performance issues.
  • Experience working in an Agile environment with strong engineering best practices, unit testing, code reviews, continuous integration, and automated deployments.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools, such as Octopus Deploy, TeamCity or Azure DevOps.
  • Experience in the securities (most desired) and/or financial industry and/or additional education in finance.
  • Self-starter driven to make an impact.

TRAVEL REQUIRED:


  • Minimal travel required; however, candidates should be open to occasional travel as needed to support business objectives.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:


  • The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:


While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate with others. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, demonstrate hand and finger dexterity in the course of their work, handle or feel, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.   The expected physical workload is classified as:

Sedentary Work


: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met. 

Salary Range = $119,509.00 – $155,362.00 USD Annually + Benefits


The referenced salary range is based on the Company’s good faith belief at the time of posting.  Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.

Life at Center for Research in Security Prices

In 1960, Chicago Booth embarked on development of the world’s first comprehensive database for historical security prices and returns information. The research-quality data created by this transformational project spawned a vast amount of scholarly research from several generations of academics. For more than 60 years CRSP has maintained the level of quality and industry standards introduced by Professors Lawrence Fisher and James Lorie in the formation of CRSP. Today, with a staff of nearly 90 professionals, CRSP continues its commitment to providing research data for the most rigorous tests in academic research and in backtesting applications by practitioners. In addition, since 2013 CRSP has offered a broad suite of proprietary equity indexes for authorized clients to use for active and passive investment management, benchmarking and analysis. These transparent and efficient indexes provide the foundation for new areas of research and also serve as benchmarks for over $1.5 trillion in investment vehicles including mutual funds ETFs offered by The Vanguard Group. These indexes include cap-based, industry sector and value-growth indexes and demonstrate not only CRSP's innovative thinking, but also the depth of CRSP’s commitment to positively influence practices in the financial arena. More information on the investable indexes can be found in the Investment Products section. On January 1, 2020, CRSP became CRSP, LLC, a separate but wholly owned affiliate of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Thrive Here & What We Value1. Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities2. Cross-functional, teamwork-oriented environment3. Agile software development4. Passionate team that values high quality, testable code5. Collaborative environment with mutual respect and cooperation between all members of CRSP6. Championing clients and creating tight feedback loops for improvements7. Partnering with Communications team for client communications

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