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Clearwater Analytics

Senior Software Development Engineer

Office - Chicago

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Seniority
Senior
Stated salary
$129,200 per year
Country
US
Work mode
On-site / unstated
First seen by hirly
27 Sept 2026

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the posting

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 p articipate 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 .

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:

Strong problem-solving skills

Experience with an object-oriented, or functional language

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Strong problem-solving skills

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

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 (speak, read, comprehend, write in English).

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 problem-solving skills.

Strong organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills.

Detail oriented.

Motivated, team player.

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

401(k) retirement plan with company match

Work from anywhere 3 weeks out of the year

Work from home Fridays

Salary Range

$129,200.00 - $174,173.00 This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, other job-related qualifications/skills, and geographic location (to account for comparative cost of living). The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, benefits include: health/vision/dental insurance, 401(k), PTO, parental leave, and medical leave, STD/LTD insurance benefits. Clearwater Analytics is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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