Clear Street · 1 day ago
Senior Software Engineer - Portfolio Management
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$170K/yr - $220K/yr
7+ years expClear Street’s mission is to give every sophisticated investor access to every asset, in every market, through a unified platform built for speed, transparency and scale. As an experienced Senior Software Engineer, you will help build the Clear Street Portfolio Management platform and tackle complex problems while collaborating with a team of engineers to create core services for a world-class financial platform.
Cloud InfrastructureFinancial ServicesFinTech
Responsibilities
Help build our flagship Clear Street Portfolio Management platform
Tackle non trivial problems that force you to balance trade offs while implementing clean and efficient solutions
Join our team of passionate and collaborative engineers to build core services for our world-class financial platform designed to handle all aspects of client needs while maintaining a high SLA
Own and harden the ingestion, validation and persistence of high-volume data products across our Portfolio Management platform
Turn ambiguous, cross-team pain into deterministic, observable systems
Develop a wide range of services, from user authentication and authorization to client data delivery
Solve complex problems that will challenge your system design skills, implement clean and efficient code, and simplify complexity through feature and service design
Mentor teammates, evolve our technical standards and best practices, and promote a culture of system design
Qualification
Required
You have at least seven (7) years of professional experience implementing highly scalable services in Java/SpringBoot using both multi-threaded and asynchronous processing patterns
You have strong SQL skills, query plan analysis and optimization skills/tactics
Build JSON parsing/validation/transform pipelines (JSON Schema), including custom adapters/codecs. (preference of GSON over Jackson)
You have a fundamental understanding of OLAP/OLTP workflows, and row oriented / column oriented database design choices
Model and operate Redis beyond KV: streams, pub/sub, hashes, sorted sets, Lua, eviction & persistence tradeoffs
Production debugging instincts: can trace failures across the layers of a system, understand /proc, syscalls, and debug latency related issues
You are familiar with Kubernetes, Docker, and Linux. You should have a basic understanding of what a system call is, what /proc is, what 'strace' does
You have a strong command over design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
You should be solid with git, understand branching, rebasing, and dealing with issues
Preferred
gRPC
PostgreSQL
Snowflake
OpenAPI
kotlin
kafka
Singlestore
node.js
Bloomberg
Benefits
Company equity
401k matching
Gender neutral parental leave
Full medical, dental and vision insurance
Lunch stipends
Fully stocked kitchens
Happy hours
Company
Clear Street
Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing the legacy infrastructure used across capital markets.
501-1000 employees
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2025 (22)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$605MKey Investors
Prysm CapitalIMC Investments
2023-04-11Series B· $270M
2023-02-14Series Unknown
2022-05-24Series B· $165M
Leadership Team
Chris Pento
Co-Founder and CEO
Ed Tilly
CEO
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