Staff Software Engineer - Trading Systems

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 Team:

The Securities Finance Engineering team builds trading platforms for various Securities Finance businesses and Finance/Treasury functions . We are a team of specialists with skills across various aspects of engineering, quantitative modeling and product.

Clear Street is building out its Securities Finance & Finance & Treasury platforms from the ground up. Members of the team have the unique opportunity in the industry to build large scale, sophisticated trading systems on a modern and scalable technology stack from scratch.

We employ a wide variety of technologies including Java/Spring Boot (for our service mesh), React (front-end), python for ETL/Analytics and statistical modeling. Clear Street Engineering provides a modern developer experience for engineers, including excellent CI/CD tooling and a managed k8s environment.

You Will:

• Build scalable and reliable microservices across Securities Finance and Finance/Treasury functions


• Work closely with users (traders, customers, counterparties) and product to understand requirements and rapidly iterate


• Own your system end-to-end, including support and ongoing improvements


• Develop a deep understanding of the business domain

Skills We’re Looking For:

• 8+ years of Software Development experience required


• 5+ years Java/Springboot


• Have practical experience with relational databases like Postgres


• Hands on experience working with Kafka


• Understanding of distributed systems architecture


• Understanding of multi-threading and concurrency


• Understanding of Docker and container orchestration


• Experience with AWS / Cloud native tooling

Bonus Points:

• Experience in the Securities Finance domain


• Spring Security, Oauth, RBAC integration


• Prior experience going from zero to one (building and rolling out a new product)


• Contract-first development


• Experience owning a public-facing API

We Offer: The Base Salary Range is $200,000 - $240,000. 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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