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 Securities Finance Engineering team builds trading platforms for various Securities Finance businesses including Securities Lending, Repo, and Derivatives across multiple markets and geographies. We are a team of specialists with skills across various aspects of engineering, quantitative modeling, and product.
Clear Street is building out its Securities Finance Trading Platform from the ground up. Members of the team have the unique opportunity in the industry to build large scale, sophisticated trading systems on a modern and scalable technology stack from scratch.
We employ a wide variety of technologies including Java/Spring Boot (for our service mesh), React (front-end), Python for ETL/Analytics and statistical modeling respectively. Clear Street Engineering provides a modern developer experience for engineers, including excellent CI/CD tooling and a managed k8s environment.
- Architect and build data pipelines and analytics platforms that support Securities Finance businesses
- Work closely with your stakeholders (Trading Desk, Product) to deliver products that solve real world business problems
- Put your experience to good use by mentoring teammates, defining engineering standards, and driving a system design approach to building new services.
- Own systems end-to-end, including support and ongoing improvements.
- Develop a deep understanding of the business domain.
- You have at least seven (7) years of experience designing and architecting systems that deliver solutions to complex data problems.
- You have hands-on experience with ETL toolchains e.g. Argo, Apache Airflow
- You are a data modeling pro; you understand how to create unified definitions of types from different source data representations.
- You are an SQL guru. You are able to write concise, readable queries to accomplish a given task as efficiently as possible
- You have extensive experience with relational databases like Postgres, a deep understanding of distributed systems and their tradeoffs, and a working knowledge of streaming data.
- Experience with big data tools e.g. Snowflake, Apache Spark, Flink, Athena etc
- Experience in the Securities Finance domain.
- Prior experience going from zero to one (building and rolling out a new product).
- Experience with AWS / cloud-native tooling.
- Understanding of Docker and container orchestration.
The Senior Level Base Salary Range is $190,000 - $250,000. 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.
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What We Do
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. Clear Street’s proprietary platform adds significant efficiency to the market while focusing on minimizing risk, redundancy, and cost for clients. Clear Street’s goal is to create a single platform for every asset class, in every country, and in any currency.
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.
Why Work With Us
Clear Street has thoughtfully cultivated a team that combines problem-solving engineers with financial industry experts. We're focused on building a team that is motivated to tackle fintech innovation and create a collaborative work culture for everyone.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
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.