Senior Frontend Software Engineer, Trade Processing Middle Office Systems

at  Clear Street

ABOUT CLEAR STREET:

Clear Street is modernising 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 minimising 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.

THE TEAM:

As a member of our Trade Processing Middle Office Engineering Team, you will play an integral part in the design and development of our institutional multi-broker/multi-prime post-trade processing platform. We are looking for someone who is passionate about solving complex business and technical problems with traditional and emerging technologies. You will collaborate with fellow engineering team members, product managers and business users in an agile/iterative environment.
Tech Stack: React, Typescript, Python, RDBMS and NoSQL, gRPC, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS.

Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 7+ years of professional experience utilizing React, Typescript, RDBMS, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), microservice based server side application development
• Ability to create clean, concise, readable, maintainable code.
• Effective and concise oral and written communication skills.You take pride in the quality of your work and hold yourself to a high standard.

As an experienced Senior Frond-end 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 platform for our varied client base including hedge funds, traders and portfolio managers.

• You will build highly available, horizontally scalable mission critical applications in a modern technology stack.
• You will sharpen your (already advanced) front-end skills by working on some of the most challenging problems available.
• You will work with product managers and users to understand and define new features and drive them to completion.
• Coordinate and collaborate with a team of engineers on common application components with the goal of writing software “as one”.