Data Engineer - Regulatory Reporting

About Clear Street:

Clear Street is building financial infrastructure for today’s institutions. Founded in 2018, Clear Street is an independent, non-bank prime broker 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 Control Engineering team at Clear Street is a small team with a great deal of responsibility. We work closely with stakeholders to ensure that we meet all our financial and regulatory obligations in a timely fashion. Our goal is to make the lives of our stakeholders easier by leveraging innovative technology to create automated solutions for their workflows. As Clear Street grows into more product lines and geographical regions, every member of the team will have an opportunity to have an immense impact on the firm as a whole. Join our team and be part of a dynamic environment where you can make a significant contribution, collaborate with talented professionals, and work with cutting-edge technology to drive operational excellence.

The Role:

As an experienced Software Engineer on the Controls Engineering team, you will play an integral role in automating our Compliance & Finance regulatory processes. You'll build on your analytical skills to create solutions that process large amounts of data from our data warehouse to generate clean, correct reporting, including building out reconciliations.

You will partner with key stakeholders across the Compliance, Finance, and Treasury teams to understand regulatory/financial obligations and business requirements, and translate them into clean designs and scalable solutions. As the tech lead in the team, you will provide technical guidance, prioritizing work, perform hands-on design and development and code review, as well as evolve our technical standards and best practices.

Tech Stack: Python, SQL, Snowflake, Retool, Docker, Kubernetes, Argo, Metaplane, REST APIs

Required Qualifications:

• You have at least five (5) years of software design and development experience including CI/CD, source code control, testing, and quality management.


• You are highly proficient in Python, SQL, database design, and have experience working with data warehouses like Snowflake to generate complex solutions at scale.


• You are a self-starter with a sense of urgency and an eagerness to learn and explore new technologies as appropriate to solve business problems.


• You are a strong communicator who can interact in a clear and concise manner with non-technical business stakeholders, product managers as well engineers.


• You have the ability to troubleshoot and logically assess problems and determine solutions.

Bonus Qualifications:

• You have experience working in the post-trade automation space designing and architecting systems that deliver solutions to complex data problems.


• You have experience generating complex financial industry regulatory reports like EMIR, MFID, SFTR, CPR, K Factor etc.

We Offer:

• The opportunity to join a growing team of good people, where you can make a difference.


• A meritocratic philosophy that champions collaboration.


• 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.


• Competitive compensation, benefits, and perks.

The Base Salary Range for this role is $140,000 - $190,000. This range is representative of the starting base salaries for this role at Clear Street. Where a candidate falls in this range will be based on job related factors such as relevant experience, skills, and location. This range represents Base Salary only, which is just one element of Clear Street's total compensation. The range stated does 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. As such, beginning on January 2, 2023, 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. #LI-Hybrid