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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer, Finance (Clojure) - **Company:** D R W Inc - **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $225,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Airflow, Lisp (Programming Language), Clojure, Relational Databases, Software Design Documents, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Oracle (Applications), Performance Tuning, Ruby, Software Engineering, PL-SQL, Datadog, Data Logging, Indexer, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Data Pipelines, Docker - **Published:** July 28, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/6020ef6e-24b7-4116-ae74-374d86b8412d ## About the Role * 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 * Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code * Background in reducing operational toil through automation and better system design ## Description * 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. 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