Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Portfolio Management System

at  Clear Street

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. Clear Street’s proprietary prime brokerage platform adds significant efficiency to the market, while focusing on minimizing risk, redundancy, and cost for clients. Our goal is to create a single source-of-truth platform for every asset class, in every country, and in any currency.
By combining highly-skilled product and engineering talent with seasoned finance professionals, we are building the essentials to compete in today’s fast-paced markets.

REQUIREMENTS:

• You have at least eight (8) years of professional experience implementing web applications.
• You have at least four (4) years using React and TypeScript.
• You have contributed to systems that deliver solutions to complex business problems that handle massive amounts of data. You are drawn towards scale, distributed systems, and associated technologies.
• You can clearly explain the nuances of system design and paradigms to engineers and stakeholders.
• You prioritize end user experience, and it shows in your APIs design, functionality, and performance.
• You have a strong command over design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
• You communicate technical ideas with ease and always look to collaborate to deliver high quality products.
• You can recognize and find solutions to performance issues.
• You aim for operational excellence.
• You obsess over the user experience.
• You like working in a team first environment.
• You take pride in the quality of your work and hold yourself to a high standard.

As an experienced Frontend Software Engineer you will help build our flagship Clear Street Studio, a modern prime brokerage experience. You will tackle non trivial problems that force you to balance trade offs while implementing clean and efficient solutions. You will raise our bar on providing clean and efficient solutions that delight and offer the best experience for our customers. You will push our operational standards and ensure that we are able to offer and maintain a high SLA.
This role is deeply involved with engineering the next generation of our state of the art Studio (portal) for our varied client base including hedge funds, traders and portfolio managers.