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!
A career in Software Development, will provide you with the opportunity to participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing and deployment of quality software. With the use of advanced technology, you and your team will work in an agile environment producing designs and code that our customers will use every day.
You will ensure team processes are understood, followed, and improved. Responsible for developing and evaluating personnel to ensure efficient operation, continued growth, and positive employee engagement. Responsible for ensuring the delivery of business goals assigned to the team.
Responsibilities:
Leading a team to develop quality software that is used by some of the world’s largest technology firms, fixed income asset managers, and security traders on Wall Street
Responsible for ensuring a team’s success, growth, and output
Providing training, guidance, and mentorship to individuals on the team
Participating in Agile meetings to contribute with development strategies and product roadmap
Producing tremendous feature enhancements and reacting quickly to emerging technologies
Encouraging collaboration and stimulating creativity
Providing leadership and expertise to our ever-growing workforce
Leads team with occasional guidance and training from division lead.
Sets clear expectations for direct reports and meets weekly with direct reports one-on-one.
Develops plans for team members’ growth into a long-term role, but still requires some assistance from division lead.
Proactively fosters a respectful workplace culture within the team
Ensures team processes are followed and effective, including processes to ensure quality code deploys
Is a role model for good coding practices
Can function effectively as a L2 SDE
Sets high expectations for team, effectively communicates those expectations, and follows up on them
Effectively shares positive/negative feedback in a way that encourages ownership and action
Identifies tasks, actions, and responsibilities for immediate direct reports to help them grow in capability
Accountable to others and expects accountability from others.
Drives large projects to ship
Seen as technical leader across large domain
Coordinates with others to deliver products that require multiple components
Requirements:
Demonstrated ability to provide constructive feedback to team members
Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, identify tasks, provide estimates and meet production deadlines
Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle
Ability to resolve conflict within and across teams and drive consensus to achieve common goals
Ability to provide technical feedback and guidance on architecture, code review, and best practices
10+ years of experience in software development
2+ years of experience leading a development team.
Demonstrated knowledge of computer science fundamentals - Object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
Fluent in Java or similar object-oriented language
Experience in implementing and consuming large-scale web services
Strong problem-solving skills
Skills:
- General knowledge of data structures and algorithms
- General knowledge of software design and OOP
- Experience with at least one of the following languages: C++. Rust, Python Plus / Bonus skills:
- Experience with JavaScript, web development, cloud infrastructure, Docker, Linux administration
- Experience in a Tech or FinTech company
- Exposure to multiple programming languages and paradigms
- Expertise in C++ and Python
- Experience with SecDB/Athena/Quartz
- Experience with SDLC tools and agile methodologies
Person Specification:
- Ability to communicate on all levels, technical and non-technical
- Team Oriented
- Takes ownership of their work.
- Attention to detail
- Perseverance and the ability to drive issue resolution and projects through to completion
- Continually strives to improve both their work and their personal knowledge
- Self-motivated and content to work on team projects.
- Articulate and able to communicate technical detail to both peers and non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to handle stressful situations
- Technical creativity and the ability to envision future solutions
- Excited by change and able to embrace a rapidly changing business landscape
