Software Development Manager

Clearwater Analytics India Private Limited; Dadri; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Clearwater Analytics India Private Limited is seeking an experienced Senior Software Development Engineer to lead a team building the company’s cloud-native platform used by top financial institutions. You will guide design, coding, testing, and deployment in an agile environment.

The role emphasizes mentoring, driving roadmap, delivering high-quality code, and collaborating with global teams to ship features and improve performance.

Qualifications

• Fluent in Java or similar object-oriented language.
• Experience leading a development team (2+ years).
• 7+ years of experience in software development.
• Knowledge of computer science fundamentals - OOD, data structures, algorithms.
• Experience building large-scale web services.
• Cloud platforms experience (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Responsibilities

• Leading a team to develop quality software used by top financial institutions.
• Ensure team success, growth, and output.
• Provide training, guidance, and mentorship to team members.
• Participate in Agile meetings and contribute to roadmap.
• Deliver feature enhancements and adapt to emerging technologies.
• Foster collaboration and drive creativity.
• Lead and mentor with occasional guidance from division lead.
• Set expectations and conduct one-on-one meetings with reports.
• Develop growth plans for team members.
• Promote a respectful workplace culture and effective processes.

Skills

Java

Team leadership

Software engineering fundamentals

Large-scale web services

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Problem solving

Communication

Tools

Relational databases

NoSQL databases

Job description

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...

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 an 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
• 7+ 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

Desired Experience and Skills

• Excellent written and verbal skills.
• Ability to contribute to software design documentation, presentation, sequence diagrams
• Ability to present complex technical designs in a concise manner.
• Ability to work with relational and NoSQL databases.
• Experience building highly scalable distributed software systems
• Professional experience working with Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Experience taking a project from scoping requirements through actual launch

Clearwater Analytics (NYSE: CWAN) is transforming investment management with the industry’s most comprehensive cloud-native platform for institutional investors across global public and private markets. While legacy systems create risk, inefficiency, and data fragmentation, Clearwater’s single-instance, multi-tenant architecture delivers real‑time data and AI‑driven insights throughout the investment lifecycle. The platform eliminates information silos by integrating portfolio management, trading, investment accounting, reconciliation, regulatory reporting, performance, compliance, and risk analytics in one unified system. Serving leading insurers, asset managers, hedge funds, banks, corporations, and governments, Clearwater supports over $8.8 trillion in assets globally. Learn more at www.clearwateranalytics.com.

We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description.