Senior Software Engineer - Portfolio Management

About Clear Street:

Clear Street is modernizing the brokerage ecosystem. Founded in 2018, Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing the legacy infrastructure used across capital markets.

We started from scratch by building a completely cloud-native clearing and custody system designed for today’s complex, global market. Our platform is fully integrated with central clearing houses and exchanges to support billions in trading volume per day. We’ve agonized about our data model abstractions, created horizontal scalability, and crafted thoughtful APIs. All so we can provide a best-in-class experience for our clients.

By combining highly-skilled product and engineering talent with seasoned finance professionals, we’re building the essentials to compete in today’s fast-paced markets.

The Role:

As an experienced Senior Software Engineer you will help build our flagship Clear Street Portfolio Management platform. 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’ll own and harden the ingestion, validation and persistence of high-volume data products across our Portfolio Management platform. You’ll turn ambiguous, cross-team pain into deterministic, observable systems.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.

The Team:

Our team is composed of highly talented and motivated engineers who are passionate about pushing the boundaries of financial technology. Working together, we have built a platform that serves institutional clients and is at the forefront of technological innovation. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, collaborate with colleagues from diverse backgrounds, and make a meaningful impact on the financial industry. We value creativity, innovation, and a strong work ethic, and we are committed to providing our team members with the support and resources they need to succeed.

Requirements:

• 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, but not required, experience on the following: gRPC, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, OpenAPI, kotlin, kafka, Singlestore, node.js, Bloomberg. Readiness to learn this stack is required.

We offer:

• The opportunity to join a growing team of good people, where you can make a difference.

• A new, high-quality code base with little technical debt and room to build new services and features.

• 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 - $220,000. 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. 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.

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