Senior Software Engineer, Clear Street
Studio, Java, AI
$175-240k
+ Company equity
4 days a week in office
Modern infrastructure for capital markets
Be an early applicant
Modern infrastructure for capital markets
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$175-240k
+ Company equity
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
- We’re looking for people who take ownership, learn quickly, and deliver without heavy oversight in a fast-moving environment
- Java
- You have at least 7+ years of strong proficiency in enterprise Java
- Experience designing and deploying AI/ML or LLM-backed systems in production
- Familiarity with LLM tooling and patterns: (e.g. tool calling, RAG pipelines and knowledge bases, evals, cost/latency tradeoffs, basic red-teaming)
- Experience in supporting and running systems in a production environment
- Comfortable working in a dynamic environment, partnering with cross-functional teams, and moving from prototype to reliable production
Desirable
- Python is a plus for proofs-of-concept, evaluation and analysis
- Background in financial services or trading systems, genuine interest in AI
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll build the backend that powers AI features in our trading platform (Clear Street Studio). You’ll own the AI service layer: retrieval, orchestration, guardrails, and evaluation
- Design, implement, and productionize reliable AI workflows to augment the Studio trading platform
- Build tooling to monitor, tune, and evaluate models and workflows, as well as applicable guardrails to ensure outputs meet quality and regulatory requirements
- Collaborate with technical and non-technical teams across the firm to identify high ROI AI opportunities
- Build rapid prototypes and translate them into production-grade systems. Utilize the latest AI-powered development tools to iterate quickly
- Create reusable libraries, SDKs and tooling to enable AI development throughout the firm
- Stay current on the latest in applied AI. Read papers, evaluate new models, test out new tools
- Participate in code review and architecture design, manage deployments, and support and contribute to the success of the overall Studio platform
- The Team: A brand new team at Clear Street with a mandate to bring AI to Studio. Green field development with high ownership and fast iteration within a larger platform
- Tech stack: Postgres, Kafka, Redis, AWS/k8s, spring ecosystem
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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