Engineering Lead, Client Lifecycle Experience

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:

You will lead and manage engineers in our Client Lifecycle Experience (CLX) team, composed of a few sub-teams distributed globally. You will be looking after the full lifecycle of a client, both institutional and active investor clients. This spans from the sales cycle, to the onboarding systems, to our critical account master system which holds the information about all of our customers, being a fundamental piece at the base of all other systems at Clear Street.

Requirements:

• 5 years minimum experience and strong proficiency with any programming language.
• Experience managing a team of engineers, at least 4-5 engineers, but the opportunity is larger.
• Experience delivering critical services for an impactful organization.
• 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 the financial industry, understanding institutional organization structures.
• Experience with Account Master Systems.
• Understanding of complex Entitlement systems/configurations.
• Experience building shared APIs for other engineering teams.

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

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.

We Offer:

The Base Salary Range for this role is $180,000 - $250,000. This range is representative of the starting base salaries for this role at Clear Street. Where a candidate falls in this range will be based on job-related factors such as relevant experience, skills, and location. This range represents Base Salary only, which is just one element of Clear Street's total compensation. The range stated does 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, cultures, and 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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