Senior / Staff Software Engineer

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 Team:
The mission of the Clear Street Active team is to provide best execution for every asset class in every market. Active is currently building a new state-of-the-art cloud-based trading platform providing high-performance traders access to liquidity venues across multiple asset classes cutting-edge charting capabilities and sophisticated order handling with the flexibility to service both the active trader and institutional workflows.

The Role:

• Build and scale mission-critical order and execution management infrastructure in Rust including order workflows execution logic and distributed trading services.
• Design systems that balance low-latency execution fault tolerance and strict correctness guarantees across distributed trading workflows
• Shape the architecture and engineering direction of a rapidly evolving trading platform in a fast-moving iterative environment.
• Develop efficient audit-ready risk controls and venue-specific trading abstractions with a focus on correctness and performance. 
• Translate evolving regulatory and market structure requirements (CAT Reg NMS MiFID) into reliable testable platform capabilities.

What We Value:

• Engineers who are biased toward action and can make thoughtful trade off decisions with incomplete information
• High ownership and accountability across the full software lifecycle
• Strong communication and collaboration across engineering trading and operations
• A willingness to challenge assumptions and continuously improve how we build

Requirements:

• Expertise in event‑driven architectures and distributed systems (Kafka Aeron or similar)
• Expert at domain‑driven data modeling and design

Nice To Haves:

• Experience with production Rust - Deep knowledge of order lifecycles and capital‑markets workflows (buy‑side EMS sell‑side OMS or exchange matching)
• Track record of converting regulatory or compliance requirements into reliable testable code
• Experience with high-performance messaging protocols; e.g. IPC multicast Aeron
• Deep knowledge of protocols like FIX ITCH or OUCH 
• Experience with a variety of asset classes including options futures crypto
• Familiarity with international markets and global system design
• **Active Team Stack:** Rust Aeron Kafka PostgreSQL Kubernetes gRPC Snowflake

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.
• A meritocratic philosophy that champions collaboration.
• Competitive compensation benefits and perks.

The Base Salary Range for this role is $170000 - $240000. 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. 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 are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality.  #LI-Remote

What We Do

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.

Why Work With Us

Clear Street has thoughtfully cultivated a team that combines problem-solving engineers with financial industry experts across clearing platforms compliance and more. The company is focused on building a team that is motivated to tackle fintech innovation and create a collaborative work culture for everyone.

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