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. * 10+ 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).