About this role
The Staff Software Development Engineer role within Clearwater’s Agentic Client Interactions & Orchestration (ACIO) is a senior technical leadership position focused on architecting, designing, and delivering large-scale distributed systems that power critical financial reporting and analytics. This role requires deep expertise in scalable system design, agentic architecture, cloud-native platforms, and high-performance data processing.
You will play a key role in shaping the technical direction, ensuring architectural excellence, and enabling teams to build robust, maintainable systems that support Clearwater’s commitment to industry-leading financial reporting solutions. Senior engineers at this level are expected to think strategically, lead through influence, and drive innovations that scale across products and teams.
Responsibilities:
Architecture & Design Leadership
- Own the end-to-end architecture of Clearwater ACIO systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance in large-scale financial data processing.
- Define, document, and communicate architectural standards, patterns, and best practices for distributed systems.
- Evaluate and implement design patterns for fault tolerance, high availability, and horizontal scalability.
- Collaborate with product managers, data architects, and engineering teams to translate business requirements into system-level designs and technical roadmaps.
- Conduct architectural reviews and provide engineering guidance to ensure alignment with strategic technology vision.
Technical Strategy & Delivery
- Lead the technical strategy, operational excellence, and professional delivery across multiple domains in Clearwater.
- Drive improvements in system observability, maintainability, and deployment automation.
- Ensure designs and implementations meet security, compliance, and performance benchmarks.
- Oversee execution of multi-team, multi-service projects, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery at scale.
Mentorship & Collaboration
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers in architecture thinking, technical design, and distributed systems development.
- Build strong relationships with teams across divisions to facilitate cross-system integration and shared technology improvements.
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging architectures, and cloud technologies.
- Identify opportunities for re-architecting or optimizing existing systems to improve throughput, latency, and cost-efficiency.
- Foster a culture of innovation, scalability, and engineering excellence across FO Reporting and broader Clearwater teams.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Proven architecture and design expertise in large-scale distributed systems, preferably in financial or analytics platforms.
- Exceptional leadership skills and ability to lead through influence as a technical architect or senior tech lead.
- Strong knowledge of microservices architecture, event-driven systems, and data streaming platforms (Kafka, AWS Kinesis, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), including scaling, cost optimization, and multi-region deployments.
- Proficiency in one or more modern languages (Java, Python, Go, or similar) with deep understanding of concurrency, memory management, and performance tuning.
- Strong understanding of distributed data storage, database scaling, and query optimization techniques.
- Worked on agentic conversational UX design and architecture.
- Developed and deployed systems with complex SLAs in production environments serving high-volume traffic/data.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to clearly convey architectural decisions and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Commitment to continuous technical learning, improvement, and community knowledge sharing.
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline.
- 15+ years of professional software development experience; 5+ years acting in an architecture or principal engineering capacity.
- Track record of designing and implementing enterprise-grade distributed systems and owning them through full lifecycle (design → build → deploy → maintain).