Software Development Engineer III

Clearwater Analytics · Chicago, Illinois · $113,810.00 - $147,250.00 · Posted 2026-10-07

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... 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_._

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

$113,810.00 - $147,250.00

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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Clearwater Analytics offers a solution that automates the investment lifecycle, offering portfolio planning, performance reporting and more.

Software Development Engineer III

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