Junior Software Engineer, Trading Systems

About Clear Street: 

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 Role:

We are seeking an engineer to join our Swedish Engineering team. You will play an important role in building up the technological backbone of Clear Street. In this role you will work closely with our business partners, build and design new solutions, and support the current business.

As we continue to build the team we are looking for full stack engineers, however, we are open to either back-end or front-end engineers that have some exposure and a desire to work end-to-end across projects.  We build both the client side, to ensure usability and easy navigation,  and the server side elements such as data storage, security and overall performance.  

The Team:

We started with a small group of experienced engineers and the team has doubled in size to a team of 10 with plans to continue to grow.  The team was formed to execute on Clear Street’s growth strategy of expanding our products and services to reach more asset classes and geographies. We work closely with engineering and product  teams based in New York.  

Members of the team have the unique opportunity to be part of a growth journey, building a technology stack from scratch, and making a big impact on the financial market. Join us and be part of a collaborative, productive and supportive team that values office work over remote work. 

You Bring:

• 0 - 3 years or more of hands-on professional experience designing and developing mission critical distributed systems with high requirements on performance, resiliency and consistency.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Financial Engineering or a related field.
• The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated, self-starter with a passion for technology and the ability and desire to learn new skills. They will be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and be able to deliver results with minimal supervision.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Bonus Points:

• Experience from prioritization between technical and business tasks, balancing the long and short term business benefits with technical debt and developer productivity. 
• Good understanding of the financial markets, the different asset classes and the unique technical requirements in building financial systems. 
• Experience in troubleshooting system performance and take corrective action as necessary.
• Experience in supporting and running systems in a production environment. 

Tech Stack:

• Required experience in Java or Typescript/Javascript
• Preferred, but not required, experience in Clear Street technology Stack: Golang, Python, React,  AWS, Kubernetes, gRPC, Protobuf, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Docker, While the experience with these technologies is not necessary, readiness to learn this stack is required.

We offer:

• The opportunity to join a small and 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.

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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