Senior Software Engineer
Summary
Senior Software Engineer building Clear Street Studio, a modern brokerage experience on Clear Street's cloud-native capital markets platform. Day to day: designing and building core backend services (auth, authorization, client data delivery) in Java/Spring, mentoring engineers, and driving system design standards, with a hybrid 4-days-per-week office setup in New York.
About Clear Street:
We give our clients the technology, tools, and service once reserved for the largest institutions, rebuilt with modern infrastructure. Our single, cloud-native, end-to-end capital markets platform powers investor growth today and is transforming how they can interact with markets tomorrow.
The Role:
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.
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 with a deep understanding of the Spring Framework ecosystem.
- 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 can clearly explain the nuances of system design and paradigms to engineers and stakeholders.
- You prioritize end user experience and it shows in your APIs design, functionality, and performance.
- You have a strong command over design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
- You communicate technical ideas with ease and always look to collaborate to deliver high quality products.
- Your experience will help you mentor team members, define our engineering standards, and drive a system design approach to building new services.
- Preferred, but not required, experience on the Platform team’s stack: Authentication providers and protocols (OAuth2), Fine-Grained Authorization experience (systems like Auth0 FGA or Authzed), gRPC, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Gradle and Kubernetes. 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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