Principal Software Engineer in London

The Trading and Risk Management System (TRMS) team is responsible for developing, supporting and maintaining our front and back office trading web applications using Python, the proprietary Beacon Dependency Graph and Glint, the Beacon UI framework. The successful candidate will help TRMS continue to grow, exercising an eye for detail across all aspects of the development lifecycle while maintaining organization and good code hygiene. This Principal Engineer should be able to effectively communicate both with internal teams and with clients. The successful candidate values teamwork and collaboration and is willing to mentor junior developers.

In this senior role, the candidate will have responsibility for defining the company's technological vision, making strategic decisions, driving innovation, and setting new industry standards. Across all levels, a successful software development engineer will demonstrate strong problem-solving skills, clear communication, excellent coding abilities, a keen understanding of the software ecosystem, and a cooperative team player attitude.

Responsibilities:

• Advocate for Clearwater’s technical vision, strategy, and established standards for software systems.
• Collaborate with our clients (asset managers, hedge funds, insurance companies, investment banks and commodities trading companies) to adapt and customize our cloud-hosted Trading Risk Management platform.
• Measure and share the results of software teams and help them create improvement.
• Identify and remove systemic blockers to success.
• Establish best practices and processes that improve execution and collaboration on any team.
• Create alignment between multiple divisions and teams towards common standards and best practices.
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to the team.
• Influence the prioritization of the overall Clearwater roadmap.
• Influence and lead high-priority and complex projects and initiatives.
• Model and encourage a culture of communication and collaboration in their team, division, and department.
• Deemed a mentor of mentors and capable of mentoring engineers at all levels.

Required Skills:

• Exceptional leadership and mentorship skills, including having led an engineering team (either as a tech lead or manager).
• Enthusiasm for software work in a software-as-a-service company.
• Driven by client satisfaction, possessing empathy for clients and desire to solve customer problems.
• Strong teamwork skills.
• Ability to manage own time and deliver expected results on time.
• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
• Exceptional analytical skills.
• Strong computer skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Excellent attention to detail and strong documentation skills.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Exceptional problem-solving abilities.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/related field or comparable experience.
• 12+ years of enterprise software development experience with strong experience in Python or other OOP languages.
• Must have domain industry experience and deep knowledge of trading and risk management systems.
• Professional experience with running software systems on a public-cloud provider.

About Clearwater Analytics:

Clearwater Analytics (NYSE: CWAN) is transforming investment management with the industry’s most comprehensive cloud-native platform for institutional investors across global public and private markets. While legacy systems create risk, inefficiency, and data fragmentation, Clearwater’s single-instance, multi-tenant architecture delivers real-time data and AI-driven insights throughout the investment lifecycle. The platform eliminates information silos by integrating portfolio management, trading, investment accounting, reconciliation, regulatory reporting, performance, compliance, and risk analytics in one unified system. Serving leading insurers, asset managers, hedge funds, banks, corporations, and governments, Clearwater supports over $8.8 trillion in assets globally.