Software Development Director

Clearwater Analytics, LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Clearwater Analytics, LLC is seeking an experienced software engineering leader to guide a team responsible for delivering scalable, high-impact software used by global financial firms. You will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and align development work with strategic roadmaps while championing best practices in a fast-moving, cloud-native environment.

The role requires strong communication, deep technical expertise, and a track record of delivering complex systems on time.

Qualifications

• 10+ years professional experience in software development.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to develop quality software used by major technology firms, asset managers, and traders.

Skills

Team leadership

Software development

Architecture guidance

Cloud platforms

Communication skills

API design

NoSQL databases

Relational databases

Scalable systems

Public APIs

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Ensures 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
• Develops corporate and/or organizational policies and authorizes their implementation.
• Detailed knowledge of company allows for innovative concepts and promoting new ideas.
• Provides direction to senior managers in various areas, groups, and/or operations.
• Recognized as an influential leader.
• Consistently works with abstract ideas or situations across functional areas of the business.
• Through assessment of intangible variables, identifies and evaluates fundamental issues, providing strategy and direction for major functional areas.
• Requires in-depth knowledge of the functional area, business strategies, and the company’s goals.
• Erroneous decisions will have a long-term effect on the company's success.
• Interacts internally and externally with executive level management, requiring negotiation of extremely critical matters.
• Influences policymaking.
• Directs and controls the activities of one or more functional areas, divisions, product groups or service areas through senior managers who have overall responsibility for the successful operation of those assigned areas.

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 professional experience in software development
• 2+ years of experience leading a development team.
• 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

Desired Experience or Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Proficiency using modern web development technologies and techniques, including (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript)
• Experience in full system design and architecture
• Experience developing and designing a public facing API
• Experience with database scaling and design

Thank you for your interest in a career with Clearwater! 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.

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. 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, we encourage you to still apply! You may be just what we're looking for.