Senior Software Engineer - Clearing and Settlements

About Clear Street:

Clear Street is modernizing the brokerage ecosystem. Founded in 2018, Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing the legacy infrastructure used across capital markets. 

We started from scratch by building a completely cloud-native clearing and custody system designed for today’s complex, global market. Our platform is fully integrated with central clearing houses and exchanges to support billions in trading volume per day. We’ve agonized about our data model abstractions, created horizontal scalability, and crafted thoughtful APIs. All so we can provide a best-in-class experience for our clients. 

By combining highly-skilled product and engineering talent with seasoned finance professionals, we’re building the essentials to compete in today’s fast-paced markets.

The Role:
As a  Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in our engineering efforts to expand our core Platform for Clearing & Settlement. You are expected to participate in the design and building of complex features and services, ensuring scalability and reliability across various financial transaction processes. You will solve complex, systemic issues that require an innovative approach and a deep understanding of system design and architecture. As a voice within the team, your role will actively shaping our engineering culture, refining technical standards, and promoting best practices in system design and software engineering.

The Team:
Our team consists of exceptionally skilled engineers dedicated to advancing financial technology. As a member, you will collaborate on strategic directions, and ensure that our platform not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our institutional clients. Your contributions will significantly influence our technology roadmap and the future of financial services technology.

Requirements:

• Technical Expertise: 5 years of professional experience in designing, implementing, and scaling high-performance services. While our stack includes Golang, experience in Java, C , or similar languages, coupled with a willingness to master Go, is required.
• Complex Systems: Demonstrated experience in architecting and contributing to systems that solve complex business challenges, with a particular focus on scalability, distributed systems, and handling vast data volumes.
• Capability of participating in system design discussions, explaining trade-offs to both engineers and stakeholders.
• Technical Communication: Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to a variety of audiences, fostering collaboration and driving consensus among team members and stakeholders.
• End User Focus: A strong emphasis on user experience, demonstrated through API design, service functionality, and performance optimization.
• Technical Breadth: A solid grasp of design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and a broad understanding of various technology stacks and frameworks.
• Preferred Experience: While not required, prior experience with our technology stack (Golang, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus. A commitment to mastering these technologies is expected.

We offer:

• The opportunity to join a growing team of good people, where you can make a difference.
• A new, high-quality code base with little technical debt and room to build new services and features.
• An environment that embraces the utility of a DevOps oriented culture and combines it with a focus on CI/CD methodology.
• A meritocratic philosophy that champions collaboration.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and perks.

The Base Salary Range is $150,000 - $220,000. These ranges are representative of the starting base salaries for this role at Clear Street. Which range a candidate fits into and where a candidate falls in the range will be based on job related factors such as relevant experience, skills, and location. These ranges represent Base Salary only, which is just one element of Clear Street's total compensation. The ranges stated do not include other factors of total compensation such as bonuses or equity.

At Clear Street, we offer competitive compensation packages, company equity, 401k matching, gender neutral parental leave, and full medical, dental and vision insurance. Our belief has always been that we are better as a business when we are all together in person. We are requiring employees to be in the office 4 days per week. In-office benefits include lunch stipends, fully stocked kitchens, happy hours, a great location, and amazing views.

Our top priority is our people. We’re continuously investing in a culture that promotes collaboration. We help each other through challenges and celebrate each other's successes. We believe that modern workplaces succeed by virtue of having high-performance workforces that are diverse — in ideas, in cultures, and in experiences. We put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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