Senior Software Development Engineer

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!

We are seeking a Senior Developer to join our Security Master initiative, supporting both our OMS/PMS product line and the new integrated Shared Security Master platform. Every day, millions of dollars in trades and orders flow through our front office systems, while trillions of dollars in investments are reported by our middle and back office systems. Central to this process is the detailed information about each investment.

Due to recent acquisitions, Clearwater now has several security masters in place. This role involves working on an existing security master used by our front office applications and assisting with the integration efforts to develop a shared security master. If you are interested in modeling new asset types, solving data integration challenges, and building a cutting-edge distributed security master, we encourage you to join us!

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 to 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 of 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 others inside and outside their division

Requirements:

• 7+ years of professional experience with Java and SQL

• Strong problem-solving skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

• Strong problem-solving skills

• Background in SDLC & Agile practices

• Experience in monitoring production systems

• Experience working with messaging systems such as Cloud Pub/Sub, Kafka, or SQS/SNS

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

• Excellent written and verbal skills. Ability to contribute to software design documentation, presentation, sequence diagrams and present complex technical designs in a concise manner

• Professional experience in building distributed software systems, specializing in big data and NoSQL database technologies (Hadoop, Spark, DynamoDB, HBase, Hive, Cassandra, Vertica)

• Ability to work with relational and NoSQL databases

• Strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills