Software Development Manager

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

• 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.

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  Ability to work with relational and NoSQL databases.

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  Experience building highly scalable distributed software systems

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  Professional experience working with Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

• Experience taking a project from scoping requirements through actual launch