Sr. Software Development Engineer - Energy & Commodities

Clearwater Analytics•New York, NY

3d•$156,400 - $210,841•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Software Developer on Clearwater Analytics’ Energy & Commodities team, you will design, build, deploy, and maintain systems that capture and manage commodity trades and their risk on the company’s investment accounting, risk, and performance platform. You will work closely with Quantitative Developers, Product Managers, and clients to turn complex trading and risk workflows into reliable, well-designed software. You will lead design within your area of the platform and help raise the team’s engineering standards. The role covers trade capture, trade lifecycle, position management, and risk workflows for global commodities, including OTC and exchange-traded, financial and physical products. It also involves extending platform frameworks that consume pricing libraries, maintaining containerized services and deployment pipelines, improving workload observability and performance, and contributing to codebases in multiple languages as project needs require. The position is hybrid in New York, with four days per week in the office.

Requirements

At least 7 years of professional software development experience, including strong production work in Python.
Experience in energy and commodities technology, such as ETRM/CTRM products, trading and risk systems at an energy trading firm, utility, or bank commodity desk, or front-office development supporting commodity trading.
Working knowledge of market conventions, deal structures, and trade lifecycle events for derivatives.
Demonstrated ability to work in more than one programming language and DBMS.
Hands-on experience with containerization, such as Docker and Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
Experience building and deploying software on a public cloud, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Strong design skills and ability to lead feature-level design within a team.
Ability to understand unfamiliar codebases and debug production systems.
Strong problem-solving and communication skills, including ability to explain technical topics to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Development experience on a graph-based pricing and risk platform, such as Beacon, Quartz, Athena, or SecDB.
Production experience in multiple languages and DBMSes.
Experience building real-time trading and risk systems.
Financial engineering knowledge and experience.
Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems.

Responsibilities

Design, build, deploy, and maintain features for commodity trade capture, trade lifecycle, position management, and risk workflows.
Extend platform frameworks that consume pricing libraries, including deal models, market data and curve management, risk batch execution, cashflow generation, and reporting.
Translate business, functional, and client requirements into well-designed features in partnership with Product Managers and Quantitative Developers.
Lead design and feature discussions, apply team architectural standards and design patterns, and participate in design and code reviews.
Contribute to codebases in other languages, including Java, TypeScript, and Rust, as projects require.
Build and maintain containerized services and deployment pipelines, and improve workload observability and performance.
Write clean, well-tested code and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end automated testing.
Troubleshoot and resolve production incidents promptly and effectively.
Mentor new and less experienced engineers.
Produce high-quality documentation for technical and non-technical audiences.
Apply and help refine best practices for AI use in development, operations, and the products themselves.