Staff Software Development Engineer- Energy & Commodities

Clearwater Analytics•New York, NY

3d•$179,400 - $243,136•Hybrid

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. You will own the architecture of trade capture, trade lifecycle, and risk workflows for energy and commodity products, working closely with Quantitative Developers, Product Managers, and clients. You will set technical direction, lead through influence across teams, and raise the team’s engineering standards. The role covers global commodities, including OTC and exchange-traded, financial and physical products. You will design platform frameworks that consume pricing libraries, spanning deal models, market data and curve management, risk batch execution, cashflow generation, and reporting. The position is based in New York or London and follows a hybrid schedule with four days per week in the office.

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.
Ability to work across multiple programming languages and DBMSes.
Hands-on experience with containerization, including 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 quickly understand unfamiliar codebases and debug complex production systems.
Excellent communication skills, including explaining 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 (such as Greeks, VaR, and scenario analysis), 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.
Improve containerized deployment, cloud architecture, observability, and workload performance.
Mentor 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 products.

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.
Work from anywhere for three weeks of the year.
Work from home Fridays.
Health, vision, and dental insurance, 401(k), PTO, parental leave, medical leave, and short- and long-term disability insurance benefits.
Business-casual atmosphere in a flexible working environment.
Team-focused culture that promotes innovation and ownership.
Access to investment reporting technology and expertise.
Defined and undefined career pathways.