Staff Software Development Engineer- Energy & Commodities
About The Position
As a Staff Software Developer on Clearwater Analytics’ Energy & Commodities team, you will provide technical leadership for systems that capture and manage commodity trades and their risk on the platform. You will own the architecture of trade capture, trade lifecycle, and risk workflows for energy and commodity products, working closely with Quantitative Developers who build pricing libraries, Product Managers, and clients. You will set technical direction, lead through influence across teams, and raise the team’s engineering standards. The role involves owning end-to-end architecture for global commodity workflows, including OTC and exchange-traded products, financial and physical. You will design platform frameworks that consume pricing libraries and translate business, functional, and client requirements into system designs and technical roadmaps. You will lead cross-service projects and engineering reviews, improve deployment and cloud practices, mentor engineers, produce documentation for technical and non-technical audiences, and continuously improve the use of AI in development, operations, and products. The role is based in New York or London with a hybrid schedule of four days per week in the office. The posting lists a salary range of $179,400.00–$243,136.45, with compensation determined in part by experience, qualifications, skills, and geographic location.
Requirements
- At least 9 years of professional software development experience, including significant 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.
- Knowledge of market conventions, deal structures, and trade lifecycle events for derivatives.
- Demonstrated ability to work across multiple programming languages and DBMSes.
- Hands-on experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes, and containerized deployment pipelines.
- Experience designing and operating systems on a public cloud such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Architecture and design expertise, with the ability to lead through influence as a senior technical lead.
- Ability to understand unfamiliar code bases quickly and debug complex production systems.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain architectural decisions and trade-offs 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 many programming 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
- Own the end-to-end architecture of trade capture, trade lifecycle, position management, and risk workflows for global commodities, including OTC and exchange-traded, financial and physical products.
- Design and build 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 system-level designs and technical roadmaps in partnership with Product Managers and Quantitative Developers.
- Define and communicate architectural standards and design patterns for the team, and lead design and code reviews.
- Lead multi-service projects spanning codebases in languages such as Java, TypeScript, and Rust, ensuring timely, high-quality delivery.
- Drive improvements in containerized deployment, cloud architecture, observability, and workload performance.
- Mentor fellow engineers in technical design and software engineering practice.
- Produce high-quality documentation for technical and non-technical audiences.
- Continuously improve best practices for AI use in development, operations, and the products themselves.
Benefits
- Competitive medical, dental, vision, and life insurance benefits.
- Maternity and paternity leave.
- Personal Time Off and Volunteer Time Off.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
- Ability to work from anywhere for three weeks of the year.
- Work from home Fridays.
- Health, vision, and dental insurance.
- PTO, parental leave, and medical leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance benefits.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
