Nearwater Capital · 1 day ago
Senior Developer - Financial Technology
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
7+ years expNearwater Capital is a rapidly growing and innovative specialty finance company headquartered in New York City. They are seeking two senior developers who thrive on versatility and enjoy building systems from scratch, focusing on developing their flagship platform and centralized data platform.
FinanceFinancial Services
Hiring Manager
Caroline Spinner
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
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)
GitHub profile that shows experimentation across different technologies
Side projects you built to solve your own problems
Open-source contributions or active usage of OSS projects
Learning outside work - courses, certifications, or exploring new tech stacks
Problem-solving mindset - you see inefficiencies and build solutions
You've worked on projects where you wore multiple hats
You get energized by greenfield development and system architecture decisions
You're comfortable with ambiguity and can make pragmatic technical decisions
You collaborate well but can also drive initiatives independently
You're curious about AI and actively use LLMs for coding (experience with tools like Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar AI-assisted development)
Benefits
Health, dental & vision benefits
Life insurance
Paid vacation and holidays
401(k) plan
Company
Nearwater Capital
Nearwater Capital is a specialty finance company that is focused providing financing to Sponsors for Risk Retention interests.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Nearwater Capital has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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2025 (2)
2024 (1)
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
James Peterson
Managing Partner
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