Job Description

The Software Development Engineer role at Clearwater Analytics spans a spectrum of responsibilities with a focus on designing, implementing, and managing software systems. The role requires continuous learning and application of new technologies and trends. Engineers at entry-level work on coding, debugging, and learning new software technologies. With progression in this track, the responsibilities expand to include leading teams, designing complex software systems, providing mentorship, and managing cross-functional integration. The more senior roles are responsible for defining the company's technological vision, making strategic decisions, driving innovation, and setting new industry standards. Across all levels, a successful software development engineer will demonstrate strong problem-solving skills, clear communication, excellent coding abilities, a keen understanding of the software ecosystem, and a cooperative team player attitude.

Responsibilities:

  • Developing quality software that is used by some of the world's largest technology firms, fixed income asset managers, and custodian banks
  • Participate in Agile meetings to contribute with development strategies and product roadmap
  • Owning critical processes that are highly available and scalable
  • Producing tremendous feature enhancements and reacting quickly to emerging technologies
  • Encouraging collaboration and stimulating creativity
  • Helping mentor entry-level developers 
  • Contributing to design and architectural decisions
  • Providing leadership and expertise to our ever-growing workforce
  • Testing and validating in development and production code that they own, deploy, and monitor
  • Understanding, responding to, and addressing customer issues with empathy and in a timely manner
  • Independently can move a major feature or service through an entire lifecycle of design, development, deployment, and maintenance
  • Deep knowledge in multiple teams' domains; broad understanding of CW systems. 
  • Creates documentation of system requirements and behavior across domains
  • Willingly takes on unowned and undesirable work that helps team velocity and quality
  • Is in touch with client needs and understands their usage
  • Consulted on quality, scaling and performance requirements before development on new features begins.
  • Understands, finds, and proposes solutions for systemic problems
  • Leads in the technical breakdown of deliverables and capabilities into features and stories.
  • Expert in unit testing techniques and design for testability, contributes to automated system testing requirements and design
  • Improves code quality and architecture to ensure testability and maintainability
  • Understands, designs, and tests for impact/performance on dependencies and adjacent components and services. Builds and maintains code in the context and awareness of the larger system
  • Helps less experienced engineers troubleshoot and solve problems
  • Active in mentoring and training of others inside and outside their division


    • Requirements:

  • Good understanding of capital market and financial products specially in FI, Interest Rate and ETDs.
  • Exceptional problem-solving abilities
  • 7+ years professional experience in Java / Microservices/cloud based development
  • Experience with an object-oriented, or functional language 
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Background in SDLC & Agile practices.
  • Experience in monitoring production systems.
  • Experience with Machine Learning
  • Experience working with Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP).
  • Experience working with messaging systems such as Cloud Pub/Sub, Kafka, or SQS/SNS.
  • Must be able to communicate

    • Desired Experience or Skills:

  • Ability to build scalable backend services (Microservices, polyglot storage, messaging systems, data processing pipelines).
  • Possess strong analytical skills, with excellent problem-solving abilities in the face of ambiguity.

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