Senior Software Engineer - Trade Processing Middle Office Platform

Clear Street • New York, NY

51d • $170,000 - $240,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As an experienced Staff / Senior Software Engineer, you’ll shape our flagship Middle-Office Platform - a modern, multi-broker/multi-prime solution that streamlines post-trade processing for both buy-side and sell-side clients. You’ll tackle complex problems, weighing trade-offs to craft clean, performant code that delights users and elevates our engineering standards. Your work will also drive our operational excellence, ensuring we meet (and exceed) expectations.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.

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.

Benefits

• The opportunity to join a growing team of good people, where you can make a difference.
• An environment that embraces the utility of a DevOps oriented culture and combines it with a focus on CI/CD methodology.
• A meritocratic philosophy that champions collaboration.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and perks.
• The Base Salary Range is $170,000 - $240,000. These ranges are representative of the starting base salaries for this role at Clear Street. Which range a candidate fits into and where a candidate falls in the range will be based on job related factors such as relevant experience, skills, and location. These ranges represent Base Salary only, which is just one element of Clear Street's total compensation. The ranges stated do not include other factors of total compensation such as bonuses or equity.
• At Clear Street, we offer competitive compensation packages, company equity, 401k matching, gender neutral parental leave, and full medical, dental and vision insurance. Our belief has always been that we are better as a business when we are all together in person. As such, beginning on January 2, 2023, we are requiring employees to be in the office 4 days per week. In-office benefits include lunch stipends, fully stocked kitchens, happy hours, a great location, and amazing views.
• Our top priority is our people. We’re continuously investing in a culture that promotes collaboration. We help each other through challenges and celebrate each other's successes. 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees