Lead Software Engineer, Clearing Engineering

Design, build, and maintain high-performance risk and clearing systems supporting automated default management and capital efficiency. Architect scalable market-data infrastructure, ensure high availability and disaster recovery, optimize performance, translate complex requirements into technical designs, enforce testing and code-quality standards, and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain high-performance risk systems for the Clearing function
• Architect scalable infrastructure to ingest and transform market data feeds
• Apply data models and workflows across risk management, regulatory reporting, and clearing
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, data freshness, and throughput
• Enforce code quality, automated testing, and SDLC best practices
• Identify bottlenecks and cost inefficiencies through performance profiling
• Collaborate with product managers, quants, and risk managers to translate requirements into technical specifications
• Drive evolution of the platform's target-state architecture

Requirements

• 10+ years of engineering experience supporting mission-critical risk and clearing systems at a regulated financial institution
• Deep knowledge of margining, default waterfall mechanics, mark-to-market valuation, stress testing, and backtesting
• Understanding of derivatives, options, futures, and Greeks
• Expert-level Java proficiency building fault-tolerant, high-throughput systems
• Experience with performance tuning, garbage collection optimization, concurrency, and memory management
• Implementation experience with Aeron and Kafka
• Expertise in data structures, event schemas, and database models
• Proficiency with SQL and NoSQL data stores including Postgres, Redis, and MongoDB
• Understanding of testing methodologies, SDLC, Twelve-Factor App, HA/DR, and hexagonal architecture
• Ability to use Large Language Models to accelerate development while maintaining engineering standards
• Ownership, adaptability, mentorship, and collaborative communication

Benefits

• Discretionary annual target bonus
• Performance incentives