Jr. Developer

Firm Overview:

Cambridge Associates (“CA”) is a leading global investment firm. CA’s goal is to help endowments & foundations, pension plans, and ultra-high net worth private clients implement and manage custom investment portfolios that generate outperformance so that they can maximize their impact on the world. Cambridge Associates delivers a range of services, including outsourced CIO, non-discretionary portfolio management, and investment consulting.

Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, CA has offices in key markets in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, and Oceania. Our worldwide teams ensure our clients benefit from decades of global presence, local expertise, and relationships with the top global investment managers across the world. For more information, please visit

Position Summary:

Cambridge Associates is seeking an experienced software developer to join our development team. You will have the opportunity to work with a talented team designing and developing mission-critical software at our firm. Cambridge Associates provides a growth-oriented environment and has exciting and challenging projects for both new and existing products that would allow you to make real contributions. We develop a wide variety of software to support business process and workflows, analytical, data management and reporting capabilities for our internal customers and the firm’s clients. These include web applications, RESTful APIs and back-end services, and databases. Our development platforms include both Java and .NET on AWS infrastructure, SQL Server 2012, and other data management and analytics technologies.

Candidate will be expected to:

· Work as a part of our software engineering team with a background and experience working in the Financial Industry (Asset Management or Investment Advisory)

· Design, develop, and implement object-oriented applications to support business requirements

· Follow approved software development life cycle methodologies in an agile environment (Scrum, Kanban)

· Support the creation of design documents and be able to program hands-on coding and testing with minimum oversight

· Resolve technical issues through debugging, research, and investigation.

· Create unit tests based on desired behavior that has business value

Key Responsibilities:

· As part of an agile team, work closely with business analysts, designers and QA

· Analyze business requirements and user needs to understand and communicate feedback around functional and non-functional requirements. Should be able to provide input that will define optimal technical designs.

· Participate in planning activities and collaborate with development teams. Provide suggestions and adjustments as needed to deliver quality software within project scope and timeframes.

· Ensure that documented standards, processes and procedures are followed

· Promote and perform development work consistent with industry standards and best practices; design interfaces and integrations

· Perform unit testing and support test automation

· Apply continuous integration and continuous delivery techniques applicable to on-Prem (Microsoft) or on-Cloud (AWS) architectures

· Participate in peer code reviews and provide inputs from experience and best practices

· Support the systems once they are up and running.

· Write excellent documentation explaining application/service functionality and features.

· Other such duties as may be determined by Management

Qualifications:

· 1+ years of software development experience

· Understanding of BDD, continuous integration and lean delivery.

· Strong CS fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis.

· Understanding of modern architectural design patterns (REST, MVC, ORM, RDMS, etc.)

· Understanding of object-oriented design patterns and multi-threading concepts and how to apply them.

· Strong object-oriented design and coding using C#, .NET Core, or Java

· Cloud-computing understanding

· Experience working with relational database engines like SQL Server and ability to write advanced SQL queries and code (procs/functions).

· Experience working with Web applications and technologies (Angular, React, etc.)

· Understanding of Test Drive Development (Unit Testing, TDD) style development

· Experience building measurement and continuous improvement into software.

The firm is committed to the concept and practice of equal employment opportunity and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status. It is expected that all employees will follow a similar policy toward their co-workers.