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Senior Software Engineer - Broker-Dealer Clearing (BDC)

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170K-250K Annually
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New York, NY
170K-250K Annually
Senior level
Solve critical financial system problems by building scalable applications, collaborating with stakeholders, and developing product ideas from start to finish.
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About Clear Street:

Clear Street’s mission is to give every sophisticated investor access to every asset, in every market, through a unified platform built for speed, transparency and scale.

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.
For more information, visit https://clearstreet.io.

The Team:

The mission of the Clear Street Broker-Dealer Clearing (BDC) team is to design the technology that enables the largest trading firms in the world to operate. We automate the processes that ensure trades happen: ensuring the details are correct, the money and assets change hands on time, and making sure that the risk is managed appropriately.

The Role:

  • You will solve important problems that underpin the financial system, handling tens of millions of trades/day
  • You will build highly available, scalable, mission-critical applications in a modern technology stack
  • You will work with users to understand and define new features and drive them to completion
  • You will develop a deep understanding of the business domain

Tech Stack: TypeScript, React, Redux, Kafka, Java, Go, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS

Requirements:

  • At least Eight (8) years of experience and strong proficiency with any programming language
  • Knowledge of computer science fundamentals, such as algorithms and data structures
  • High degree of self-motivation and willingness to jump into unfamiliar areas to solve problems
  • Ability to work with stakeholders to develop new product ideas, design the technology to implement them, and see them through to completion

Bonus:

  • Experience in building trading systems or high-throughput streaming applications
  • Experience with any parts of our tech stack

We Offer:
The Base Salary Range is $170,000 - $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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Top Skills

AWS
Docker
Go
Java
Kafka
Kubernetes
Python
React
Redux
Typescript
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Clear Street New York, New York, USA Office

Located in the heart of the Financial District with entrances to the Oculus.

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