Software Development Engineer III

Clearwater Analytics • New York, NY

5d • $137,770 - $178,250

About The Position

You'll join the engineering team behind Beacon, Clearwater's front office platform used by investment banks, hedge funds, asset managers, and insurance companies. Your work sits at the intersection of financial data and production software — ingesting market data, processing trades, and building the infrastructure that gives portfolio managers and traders real-time visibility into their positions. This is not a quant role, but you'll work closely with people who speak the language of markets. You should be comfortable learning the domain.

Requirements

• Python proficiency, production-grade Python, not just scripts
• Finance domain exposure, you've worked with financial instruments (equities, fixed income, derivatives, FX) in a professional context. Banking, fintech, asset management, or financial data all count.
• SQL fluency, comfortable writing complex queries and understanding query performance
• Data pipeline experience, you've built or maintained ETL/ELT workflows in production
• CS fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, system design basics

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Kafka, Redis, or other streaming/messaging systems
• Familiarity with market data vendors or financial data formats (FIX, FPML, Bloomberg API)
• Cloud experience, AWS or Azure in a data engineering context
• NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB) alongside relational
• Prior experience at a bank, hedge fund, asset manager, or fintech

Responsibilities

• Build market data ingestion pipelines, connecting to third-party vendors (Bloomberg, Refinitiv) and normalizing pricing, reference, and corporate action data
• Build trade ingestion systems, including high-frequency trade processing and reconciliation
• Build time series frameworks for storing and querying financial data efficiently
• Build ETL and data pipelines that move and transform investment data reliably at scale
• Build integrations with third-party financial platforms and internal Beacon framework features

Benefits

• health/vision/dental insurance
• 401(k)
• PTO
• parental leave
• medical leave
• STD/LTD insurance benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed