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.
Responsibilities
- Architect new backend services and storage layers for risk based metrics
- Optimize data models for storage and reporting
- Design data ingestion pipelines in a distributed computing environment
- Collect and break down requirements to produce technical designs
- Collaborate with other tech teams, as well as business, operations, and compliance team members
Requirements
- At least ten (10) years of professional engineering experience
- 10+ years of experience implementing scalable backend services with a statically-typed language (Go / Java preferred)
- Data-wrangling experience with common scripting languages (Python preferred)
- Familiarity with common microservice architecture paradigms
- Experience designing and working with APIs to expose information externally
- Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with non-technical business stakeholders, product managers, and engineers
- Excitement to explore new technologies and become an expert in our tech stack
Nice-to-haves
- Financial risk modeling
- Integration experience with MSCI, NASDAQ
- Stream-processing experience, such as Beam and Flink
- Experience with Typescript/React
Benefits
- Base Salary Range: $170,000 - $240,000
- Competitive compensation packages
- 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
- Great location and amazing views
