Clear Street is modernizing the brokerage ecosystem by replacing legacy infrastructure with a cloud-native clearing and custody system designed for today's complex, global market.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional experience in designing, implementing, and scaling high-performance services.
- Experience in Java, C++, or similar languages, coupled with a willingness to master Go, is required.
- Demonstrated experience in architecting and contributing to systems that solve complex business challenges, with a particular focus on scalability, distributed systems, and handling vast data volumes.
- Capability of participating in system design discussions, explaining trade-offs to both engineers and stakeholders.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to a variety of audiences, fostering collaboration and driving consensus among team members and stakeholders.
- A strong emphasis on user experience, demonstrated through API design, service functionality, and performance optimization.
- A solid grasp of design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and a broad understanding of various technology stacks and frameworks.
Responsibilities
- Participate in the design and building of complex features and services, ensuring scalability and reliability across various financial transaction processes.
- Solve complex, systemic issues that require an innovative approach and a deep understanding of system design and architecture.
- Actively shaping our engineering culture, refining technical standards, and promoting best practices in system design and software engineering.
- Collaborate on strategic directions, and ensure that our platform not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our institutional clients.
- Contribute to the technology roadmap and the future of financial services technology.
Other
- We are requiring employees to be in the office 4 days per week.
- A meritocratic philosophy that champions collaboration.
- 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.
