Nearwater Capital is a rapidly growing and innovative specialty finance company headquartered in New York City with global operations and client base. Established in 2017, Nearwater has distinguished itself as a leader in delivering thoughtful, solutions-based financing to some of the largest financial institutions and financial services firms in the world.
We are seeking two senior developers who thrive on versatility and get energized by the prospect of building everything from scratch . These individuals would be the developer who gets lightly enraged by inefficient systems and takes it out on the keyboard by building better solutions. When you encounter a problem, your first instinct is to solve itwhether that's contributing to open source, building a side project, or taking a finance course just to understand the business better. Were looking for avid coders who are also avid business problem solvers. You should be excited about the opportunity to work on everything in building and maintaining new systems.
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.
Why You Should Be Interested :
- Impact : Shape the technology direction of a growing financial firm
- Growth : Learn financial markets while building cutting-edge systems
- Autonomy : Minimal bureaucracy, maximum ownership
- Variety : No day is the sameyou'll work on UI, APIs, data, infrastructure
- Technology : Modern cloud stack with freedom to choose the right tools
- Team : Work with people who share your passion for building great software
Skills and Experience :
7-10 years professional software developmentFinancial 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 mattersPreferred / excited about, but not required :
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)Financial Domain Knowledge
We're looking for someone who can hold their own in business conversations :
Can explain one or more basic financial instruments (equities, bonds, options, swaps)Understands trade workflows and position management conceptsComfortable learning new financial concepts as neededWhat Gets Us Excited About You :
Evidence of Drive & Curiosity
GitHub profile that shows experimentation across different technologiesSide projects you built to solve your own problemsOpen-source contributions or active usage of OSS projectsLearning outside work - courses, certifications, or exploring new tech stacksProblem-solving mindset - you see inefficiencies and build solutionsYou've worked on projects where you wore multiple hatsYou get energized by greenfield development and system architecture decisionsYou're comfortable with ambiguity and can make pragmatic technical decisionsYou collaborate well but can also drive initiatives independentlyYou're curious about AI and actively use LLMs for coding (experience with tools like Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar AI-assisted development)Whats in It for You :
Nearwater offers an attractive market compensation and benefits package including, health, dental & vision benefits, life insurance, paid vacation and holidays, and a 401(k) plan. Our office is in mid-town, close and convenient for commuting. As a creative, intellectual capital firm, Nearwater is proud to be 100% work from office, which promotes our collaborative and 'get things done' atmosphere.
You will be joining a firm that is well established, but still growing rapidly and You will have the ability to impact the design of developing new business segments.Work in a fast paced and intellectually stimulating environment, in which you will learn something new every day.A collaborative working environment where every voice is heard.