Senior Software Engineer, Finance (Clojure)

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$130k–$225k

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Drweng Senior Software Engineer on the Unified Platform Finance team responsible for financial accounting, regulatory reporting, reconciliation, and cost basis infrastructure. Collaborate with finance and operations teams to translate business problems into software solutions.

Responsibilities

Our systems span the full lifecycle from PnL calculation, general ledger classification, financial reporting and regulatory capital reporting. You'll work across a range of high-impact initiatives including:
Delivering on major regulatory, ERP, and financial reporting initiatives
Migrating infrastructure to Kubernetes and modernizing our deployment practices
Modernizing observability and monitoring across the finance platform
You'll spend time upfront with accountants, financial analysts, and operations teams to deeply understand business problems, help stakeholders articulate requirements and test assumptions, then turn that into an architecture and a plan. You'll drive your project forward day-to-day, breaking big business requirements into shippable increments and delivering iteratively. This is not a role where you'll be handed detailed specs.
You'll also spend time reviewing code, providing feedback on design documents, unblocking teammates, and participating in a support rotation.
You'll be right at home if:
You break large, ambiguous problems into small increments and ship continuously.
You care deeply about the business domain you work in. You want to understand why the numbers matter, not just how to move them through a pipeline.
You're comfortable leading a project end-to-end: discovery, architecture, stories, implementation, deployment and support.
You have strong opinions, loosely held. You challenge ideas constructively and welcome the same in return.
You focus on reducing operational burden. You'd rather automate a problem away than manage it forever.

Qualification

Strong system design skillsEven better if you bringDeep Python expertise — data pipelinesFamiliarity with Oracle

Required

5+ years of professional software development experience
Strength in at least one of Clojure or Python. We have a large Clojure codebase and a growing Python footprint across data pipelines. Experience with Ruby and PL/SQL is also valuable.
Experience in the finance or accounting domain. You've worked with concepts like PnL, reconciliation, general ledger, regulatory reporting, or cost basis. You don't need to be a CPA, but you should be someone who leans into understanding the business.
Strong system design skills. You can reason about architectural tradeoffs, distributed systems, and design for reliability and operability
Solid understanding of relational databases: transactionality, indexing, performance tuning, and data modeling
Experience building and operating production systems with modern infrastructure (containers, CI/CD pipelines, orchestration)
A track record of mentoring engineers and contributing to engineering culture and the ambition to grow your technical leadership further
Even better if you bring:
Deep Python expertise — data pipelines, scheduling, tooling. This is an opportunity to have outsized impact.
Experience with Clojure or other Lisp-family languages
Hands-on experience with observability tooling — structured logging, metrics, alerting, anomaly detection
Familiarity with Oracle, Kafka, or Airflow