Backend Software Engineer, Clear Street
Market Data Services
$200-250k
4+ days a week in office
Modern infrastructure for capital markets
Open for applications
Modern infrastructure for capital markets
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$200-250k
4+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To rebuild the infrastructure that supports the capital markets, bringing them into the future.
Role
Who you are
- You have at least eight (8) years of professional experience implementing highly scalable services (we implement our code in Golang)
- You demonstrate confidence in designing and building flexible APIs which enable a microservice architecture to reliably deliver consistent data
- 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 have a strong command over object-oriented design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
- You communicate technical ideas with ease and always look to collaborate to deliver high quality products
- Your experience will help you mentor team members, define our engineering standards, and drive a system design approach to building new services
What the job involves
- The FACT team is responsible for several key data products which enable Clear Street’s systems and personnel to operate with confidence and speed
- These products include security and pricing master, corporate actions, and streaming market data as well as a number of other key reference datasets
- The FACT team takes on the task of collecting inputs from various sources including vendors, public sources, and internal teams and organizing them into cohesive data products which serve as the authoritative source of reference data within the firm
- The services which allow this data to be accessed in a flexible and responsive manner are key to the FACT team delivering these critical datasets throughout the firm
- Building these services requires thoughtful API design and the use of strategic caching and robust signaling
- The accuracy and timeliness of this data are a fundamental building block of Clear Street’s platform
- As an experienced Software Engineer on the FACT Team, you will work with a team of passionate and highly collaborative engineers to build out our core Platform.
- You will own the design and implementation of new features and services, turning the complexity of processing financial transactions across various asset classes into highly scalable services. You will tackle non trivial problems that will challenge you to flex your system design muscles, balance trade offs, and implement clean efficient code.
- As a voice of experience in the team, you will help mentor teammates, evolve our technical standards and best practices, and further our culture of system designs
Our take
Clear Street is building up-to-date, cloud native infrastructure for capital markets, bringing clients faster and easier access to things like reporting, clearing, custody, and execution.
It’s been quite a rise to prominence for the New York based startup, which surpassed a billion dollar valuation in 2022 despite only launching in 2018. However, given the previous industry experience of its founders, Clear Street's success should come as no surprise. The trio built the platform as a remedy to their own pain points, missed opportunities, and lack of access to key data in the prime brokerage space.
With its Unicorn status secured and its list of clients growing, Clear Street is now gearing up for a period of rapid expansion, both geographically and across the financial services industry. Securing funding in 2023 from Prysm Capital, the company has money to play with as it continues to pursue better infrastructure for capital markets.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
11% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2023
$270m
SERIES B
May 2022
$165m
SERIES B
Total funding: $470m
Company benefits
- 401k matching
- Full medical, dental and vision insurance
- Generous vacation time
- Opportunities for professional development
- In-office benefits include lunch stipends, fully stocked kitchens, happy hours, and amazing office views
Company HQ
World Trade Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Chris Pento
(CEO)Financial services & investment veteran with over 30 years in the sector. Worked in Senior Management & Executive roles at Merrill Lynch, Knight Capital, Arxis Capital, Exos Financial, and Engineers Gate LP, before co-founding Clear Street in 2018.
Sachin Kumar
(CTO)Former Pearl Rothman Software Engineer who has founded two previous FinTech companies - Tolo Technologies, and QED Trading.
Uriel Cohen
(Executive Chairman)Trader, investor, and founder of proprietary trading firm Highland Capital Group. Co-founded proprietary investment firm Alpine Global Management in 2012.
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