About the position
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. 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'.
Responsibilities
- Build our flagship Clear Street Studio, a modern prime brokerage experience.
- Tackle non-trivial problems while implementing clean and efficient solutions.
- Raise operational standards to maintain a high SLA.
- Engineer the next generation of the Studio platform for clients including hedge funds, traders, and portfolio managers.
- Build highly available, horizontally scalable mission-critical applications.
- Work with product managers and users to define new features.
- Coordinate and collaborate with a team of engineers on common application components.
Requirements
- 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.
- Pride in the quality of work and holding oneself to a high standard.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience in Capital Markets and/or Prime Brokerage Trade Processing.
- FIX Protocol.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, benefits, and perks.
- Company equity.
- 401k matching.
- Gender neutral parental leave.
- Full medical, dental and vision insurance.
- In-office benefits including lunch stipends, fully stocked kitchens, happy hours, a great location, and amazing views.
