Senior Software Development Engineer

Job Description

Clearwater Analytics’ mission is to become the world’s most trusted and comprehensive technology platform for investment reporting, accounting, and analytics.  With our team, you will partner with the most sophisticated and innovative institutional investors around the world. If you are infectiously passionate about what you do, intensely committed to clients, and driven by continuous innovation and improvement... We want you to apply!

As a Senior Software Development Engineer at Clearwater, you will play a crucial role in accomplishing our mission. You will be part of the Analytics development team, a cross-functional team comprised of Software Engineers, Quantitative Financial Analysts, Data Analysts, and Product representatives responsible for building and maintaining financial calculations and products in the risk analytics space.

In this role, you will

• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for the team.

• Oversee the design, implementation, documentation, deployment, and adoption of complex software systems, reporting on progress and ensuring professional delivery.

• Work to uncover and understand internal- and external-user needs.

• Provide mentorship and guidance to less-experienced developers.

• Track and bring awareness to meaningful team-level metrics and data.

• Get proactively involved in urgent issues and suggest effective solutions.

• Lead in the technical breakdown of quarterly deliverables into organized sets of stories. Weave reliability, scalability, security, and performance into the collective requirements.

• Continuously build your skills through regular code reviews, training, mentoring, and access to free trainings on Udemy for Business.

About the technology

• We leverage a range of technologies to support the development of quality software, including:

• Various database technologies, Java, and React for our main application stacks across our platform.

• Git repositories hosted on Gitlab for code management.

• Access to frontier LLMs, remote agentic AI on our proprietary CWIC platform, and local agentic AI via Windsurf.

• OpenSearch and Dynatrace for application logging and monitoring.

• Cloudbees, Artifactory, Terraform, and Amazon Web Services for builds, deployment, infrastructure, and configuration. We are also leveraging Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes.

• Atlassian (Jira, Confluence), Office365 (including Microsoft Teams), and Zoom for communication.

• Quality hardware to support development and communication on Windows or Mac platforms.

We would love to hear from you if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

• 7+ years professional experience in industry-leading programming languages (Java/Python).

• Background in SDLC & Agile practices.

• Strong problem-solving skills

• Experience in monitoring production systems.

• Experience working with Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)..

• Must be able to communicate (speak, read, comprehend, write in English)

• Experience or interest in math or finance

What we offer:

• Business casual atmosphere in a flexible working environment 

• Team focused culture that promotes innovation and ownership 

• Access cutting edge investment reporting technology and expertise

• Defined and undefined career pathways allowing you to grow your own way 

• Competitive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits

• Maternity and paternity leave 

• Personal Time Off and Volunteer Time Off to give back to the community

• RSUs as well as employee stock purchase plan and 401k with match  

• Work from anywhere 3 weeks out of the year 

• Work from home Fridays