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Nearwater Capital ยท 3 weeks ago

Senior Developer - Financial Technology

positionNew York, NY
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level
date7+ years exp

Nearwater Capital is a rapidly growing and innovative specialty finance company headquartered in New York City. They are seeking two senior developers who are passionate about building effective solutions and improving inefficient systems, with responsibilities including designing and building their flagship platform and centralized data platform.

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H1B Sponsor Likelynote
Hiring Manager
Caroline Spinner
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Responsibilities

Duties will include but not be limited to:
Tradewinds 2.0
Our flagship platform for deal funding, trade optimization, and order submission. You'll help design and build the next generation from the ground up
Data Platform 1.0
Centralized platform for firm and market data. Think Bloomberg integration, risk calculations, portfolio analytics, and data governance
Everything Else
Market data architecture, user interfaces, API design, testing frameworks, deployment pipelines, monitoring systems, business logic, integrations with third-party vendors. If it needs to be built, you'll touch it

Qualification

Software developmentFinancial domain exposureFunctional programmingComplex systems experienceCloud platformsFull-stack developmentData integrationDevOps mindsetBusiness analysisCuriosityProblem-solving mindsetCollaboration

Required

7-10 years professional software development
Financial domain exposure - you've worked on financial systems in some capacity (treasury, trading, position management, back office, fund admin, fintech, etc.)
Functional and/or OO programming - strong fundamentals in one or more enterprise languages (C#, Java, Scala, F#, Python, etc.)
Complex systems experience - you've worked on business-critical applications where downtime matters
Can explain one or more basic financial instruments (equities, bonds, options, swaps)
Understands trade workflows and position management concepts
Comfortable learning new financial concepts as needed

Preferred

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS ecosystem)
Full-stack development (backend services, APIs, front-end UI)
Data integration (pipelines, ETL, working with vendor data feeds)
Testing & quality (unit testing, integration testing, code reviews)
DevOps mindset (CI/CD, automation, monitoring)
Business analysis (translating requirements, writing user stories)

Benefits

Health, dental & vision benefits
Life insurance
Paid vacation and holidays
401(k) plan

Company

Nearwater Capital

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Nearwater Capital is a specialty finance company that is focused providing financing to Sponsors for Risk Retention interests.
dateFounded in 2017
location
Usa River, Arusha, TAN
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
https://nearwatercapital.com

H1B Sponsorship

Nearwater Capital has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (2)
2024 (1)
2023 (2)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage

Leadership Team

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James Peterson
Managing Partner
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Recent News

PR Newswire
PowerPay Announces $300 Million Partnership with Synovus Bank and Nearwater Capital
2025-08-13
PRNewswire
Nearwater Capital announces that Nearwater Capital Markets, Limited has received preliminary SEC approval as a security based swap dealer
2022-07-15
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