Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack Engineer - Trade Processing - Studio

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 an experienced Full Stack Software Engineer you will help build our flagship Clear Street Studio , a modern prime brokerage experience. You will tackle non trivial problems that force you to balance trade offs while implementing clean and efficient solutions. You will raise our bar on providing clean and efficient solutions that delight and offer the best experience for our customers. You will push our operational standards and ensure that we are able to offer and maintain a high SLA.

This role is deeply involved with engineering the next generation of our state of the art Studio platform for our varied client base including hedge funds, traders and portfolio managers.

• You will build highly available, horizontally scalable mission critical applications in a modern technology stack.


• You will sharpen your (already advanced) front-end and full stack engineering skills by working on some of the most challenging problems available.


• You will work with product managers and users to understand and define new features and drive them to completion.


• Coordinate and collaborate with a team of engineers on common application components with the goal of writing software “as one”.

The Team:

As a member of our Trade Processing Middle Office Engineering Team, you will play an integral part in the design and development of our institutional multi-broker/multi-prime post-trade processing platform. We are looking for someone who is passionate about solving complex business and technical problems with traditional and emerging technologies. You will collaborate with fellow engineering team members, product managers and business users in an agile/iterative environment.

Tech Stack: React, Typescript, Java/Spring, Python, RDBMS and NoSQL, gRPC, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field


• 7+ years of professional experience in related technology


• Experience utilizing React, Typescript, Java, Spring, Spring Boot, RDBMS, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), microservice based server side application development.


• Ability to create clean, concise, readable, maintainable code.


• Effective and concise oral and written communication skills.


• You take pride in the quality of your work and hold yourself to a high standard.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in Capital Markets and/or Prime Brokerage Trade Processing


• FIX Protocol

We Offer:

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


• A meritocratic philosophy that champions collaboration.


• Competitive compensation, benefits, and perks.

The Base Salary Range for this role is $170,000 - $220,000. 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. 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 are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality. #LI-Hybrid

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