Clear Street · 1 day ago
Senior Software Engineer - Trade Processing Middle Office Platform
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$170K/yr - $240K/yr
10+ years expClear Street is a company dedicated to providing sophisticated investors with access to various assets through a unified platform. The Senior Software Engineer will shape the Middle-Office Platform, tackling complex problems and ensuring operational excellence while collaborating with product managers and other engineers.
Cloud InfrastructureFinancial ServicesFinTech
Responsibilities
You will architect and build highly available, horizontally scalable mission critical applications in a modern technology stack
Design, build, and optimize core components responsible for processing a high volume of trade data in a low latency environment
Solve complex performance and scalability challenges, ensuring our systems handle large-scale financial data efficiently
Collaborate with product managers, and other engineers to translate financial methodologies into robust software solutions
Lead by example in system design discussions, architectural trade-offs, and best practices
Mentor team members, contributing to a strong culture of engineering excellence
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
10+ years of strong proficiency in Java / Spring Boot, Spring, RDBMS, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), microservice based server side application development
Strong experience with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and tools like Kafka
Practical knowledge of relational databases (e.g., Postgres) and schema design
You have contributed to systems that deliver solutions to complex business problems that handle massive amounts of data. You are drawn towards scale, distributed systems, and associated technologies
You prioritize end user experience and it shows in your API designs, functionality, and performance
You have a strong command over design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
You have strong problem-solving skills with a keen eye for performance optimization
You can clearly explain the nuances of system design and paradigms to engineers and stakeholders
Strong understanding of multi-threading, concurrency, and performance tuning. You can troubleshoot, debug, and optimize the platform to improve performance and address potential bottlenecks
Preferred
Masters Degree in Computer Science or Related Engineering Field
Familiarity with data stores such as Snowflake, Redis and SingleStore, as well as integrating with external APIs
Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
Background in the financial services industry or experience working with financial data analytics. You have an understanding of Capital Markets, preferably with Middle Office / Trade Processing systems
Benefits
Competitive compensation packages
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
H1B Sponsorship
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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
Chief Executive Officer
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