Vice President – Software Development
| Company | Clearwater Analytics |
|---|---|
| Location | San Jose, CA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Demonstrated ability to provide constructive feedback to team members
- Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, identify tasks, provide estimates and meet production deadlines
- Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle
- Ability to resolve conflict within and across teams and drive consensus to achieve common goals
- Ability to provide technical feedback and guidance on architecture, code review, and best practices
- 10+ years professional experience in software development
- 2+ years of experience leading a development team.
- Excellent written and verbal skills.
- Ability to contribute to software design documentation, presentation, sequence diagrams
- Ability to present complex technical designs in a concise manner.
- Ability to work with relational and NoSQL databases.
- Experience building highly scalable distributed software systems
- Professional experience working with Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Experience taking a project from scoping requirements through actual launch
Responsibilities
- Leading a team to develop quality software that is used by some of the world’s largest technology firms, fixed income asset managers, and security traders on Wall Street
- Responsible for ensuring a team’s success, growth, and output
- Providing training, guidance, and mentorship to individuals on the team
- Participating in Agile meetings to contribute with development strategies and product roadmap
- Producing tremendous feature enhancements and reacting quickly to emerging technologies
- Encouraging collaboration and stimulating creativity
- Providing leadership and expertise to our ever-growing workforce
- Structures the organization and prioritizes work to achieve company goals with high quality and customer satisfaction. Adapts the organization and its practices to the changing needs of the business
- Responsible for budgeting for projects and headcount
- Establishes a strong, collaborative, customer-focused culture that pervades all levels of the organization
- Works with other leaders at multiple levels to establish processes, policies, and standards across engineering and in some cases across other disciplines
- Able to communicate effectively with Clearwater executives as well as external ones
- Contributes to engineering-wide strategy and best practices and applies them to their organization and beyond as necessary
- Aligns organization strategy and goals with those of the company
- Builds self-sufficient teams that work effectively without excessive oversight
- Provides mentorship across the engineering organization
- Identifies and drives resolution of critical issues that impact company success.
- Influences teams across Clearwater to achieve company and organizational goals.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- Proficiency using modern web development technologies and techniques, including (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript)
- Experience in full system design and architecture
- Experience developing and designing a public facing API
- Experience with database scaling and design