Senior Software Development Engineer

Senior Software Development Engineer – Clearwater Analytics (CWAN)

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.

• Develop quality software 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.
• Own critical processes that are highly available and scalable.
• Produce tremendous feature enhancements and react quickly to emerging technologies.
• Encourage collaboration and stimulate creativity.
• Help mentor entry‑level developers.
• Contribute to design and architectural decisions.
• Provide leadership and expertise to our ever‑growing workforce.
• Test and validate development and production code that you own, deploy, and monitor.
• Understand, respond to, and address customer issues with empathy and in a timely manner.
• Move a major feature or service through an entire lifecycle of design, development, deployment, and maintenance independently.
• Have deep knowledge in multiple teams’ domains and a broad understanding of CW systems.
• Create documentation of system requirements and behavior across domains.
• Willingly take on unowned and undesirable work that helps team velocity and quality.
• Be in touch with client needs and understand their usage.
• Consult on quality, scaling and performance requirements before development of new features begins.
• Understand, find, and propose solutions for systemic problems.
• Lead in the technical breakdown of deliverables and capabilities into features and stories.
• Expert in unit‑testing techniques and design for testability, contribute to automated system testing requirements and design.
• Improve code quality and architecture to ensure testability and maintainability.
• Understand, design, and test for impact/performance on dependencies and adjacent components and services; build and maintain code in the context and awareness of the larger system.
• Help less experienced engineers troubleshoot and solve problems.
• Actively mentor and train others inside and outside their division.

• 7+ years of professional experience with Java and SQL.
• Strong problem‑solving skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Background in SDLC and Agile practices.
• Experience in monitoring production systems.
• Experience working with messaging systems such as Cloud Pub/Sub, Kafka, or SQS/SNS.

• Ability to build scalable backend services (microservices, polyglot storage, messaging systems, data processing pipelines).
• 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 concisely.
• Professional experience in building distributed software systems, specializing in big data and No
  
  SQL database technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Dynamo
  
  DB, HBase, Hive, Cassandra, Vertica).
• Ability to work with relational and No
  
  SQL databases.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills.

Chicago, IL $144,000–$258,000, posted 4 days ago.