Senior Software Engineer

Clear Street•New York, NY

8h•$170,000 - $220,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As an experienced Senior Software Engineer, you will help build our flagship Clear Street Studio, a modern brokerage experience. You will tackle non-trivial problems that force you to balance trade-offs while implementing clean and efficient solutions. You will 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. You will develop a wide range of services, from user authentication and authorization to client data delivery. You will have the opportunity to solve complex problems that will challenge your system design skills, implement clean and efficient code, and simplify complexity through feature and service design. As a senior team member, you will mentor teammates, evolve our technical standards and best practices, and promote a culture of system design.

Requirements

At least seven (7) years of professional experience implementing highly scalable services in Java with a deep understanding of the Spring Framework ecosystem.
Contributed to systems that deliver solutions to complex business problems that handle massive amounts of data.
Drawn towards scale, distributed systems, and associated technologies.
Can clearly explain the nuances of system design and paradigms to engineers and stakeholders.
Prioritize end user experience and it shows in your APIs design, functionality, and performance.
Strong command over design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
Communicate technical ideas with ease and always look to collaborate to deliver high quality products.
Experience will help you mentor team members, define our engineering standards, and drive a system design approach to building new services.
Readiness to learn the platform team's stack is required.

Nice To Haves

Authentication providers and protocols (OAuth2)
Fine-Grained Authorization experience (systems like Auth0 FGA or Authzed)
gRPC
PostgreSQL
Redis
Docker
Gradle
Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Build our flagship Clear Street Studio, a modern brokerage experience.
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.
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.
Simplify complexity through feature and service design.
Mentor teammates.
Evolve our technical standards and best practices.
Promote a culture of system design.