Senior Backend Software Engineer
At Clear Street, we are disrupting the institutional brokerage and clearing market by modernizing archaic industry segments with brand new technology. We’re changing the way institutional investors interact with the markets; offering an alternative to working with big banks. Our cloud-based API technology will empower clients to clear, settle, and finance trading activity while accessing real-time risk and position information. Our platform is built on an incredibly modern tech-stack, by pragmatic engineers focused on building intuitive and frictionless user experiences. Our tech-infused suite of customer experience-oriented prime service offerings will increase our clients’ efficiency and provide real-time insights they’ve never previously experienced.
It is time to grow our team!
Working at Clear Street gives you a phenomenal opportunity to join our dynamic team of open-minded, forward-looking technologists and savvy veteran business operators. We value ingenuity, passion, and elegant simplicity. Our goal is to build a team of individuals who are as excited about our tech and revolutionary goals as we are.
As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will work closely with a passionate and collaborative team of engineers that are committed to building the best in class product. You will skillfully architect, design, and implement new features and services - choosing technologies with the full knowledge that these decisions matter. Your experience will help the Clear Street’s platform scale while minimizing the debt incurred. You can dive deep into our cloud infrastructure and help lead the adoption of our DevOps culture.
We all code. We all constantly explore new frameworks and languages and push each other to find optimal solutions to our problems. You’re thrilled to share this mindset of exploration and drive to build clean software with the team.
Be motivated. Be curious. Be ambitious. Be part of the Clear Street team!
Senior Backend Engineer Characteristics:
- You have years of experience implementing and maintaining service-oriented architectures. Here, you’ll mostly be learning and using Golang (GO)
- You’re thoughtful when considering how architecture, design, and tooling decisions aggregate and impact system performance and build technical debt over time
- You enjoy learning, exploring new languages, and tools. You invest in yourself
- Ideally, you have experience with enterprise messaging through Kafka
- You've deployed services on Amazon AWS, Goolge GCP, or Azure
- You built a solid foundation in Computer Science
- You possess a drive to improve processes, learn from past experiences, and innovate
We offer:
- The opportunity to join a small and growing exceptional team of good people, where you can make a difference
- A new 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 CD/CI methodology
- A meritocratic philosophy that champions collaboration
- Competitive compensation, benefits, and perks