Senior Software Engineer, Clear Street

• 8+ years of professional experience building highly scalable backend services in Java, ideally using Spring Boot
• Strong experience with multi-threaded and asynchronous processing patterns
• Deep SQL expertise, including query optimization, execution plan analysis, and performance tuning
• Strong experience designing and implementing financial data models and working with large, complex datasets
• Experience building robust data ingestion, validation, and transformation pipelines
• Solid understanding of API design principles and building well-documented, consumer-friendly services
• Strong production debugging instincts—able to trace issues across application, database, and infrastructure layers
• Strong command of design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
• Proficiency with git, including branching, rebasing, and resolving conflicts
• Experience working in Linux-based environments with containerized and cloud-native deployments (Docker, Kubernetes)

Desirable

• We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our Finance Technology team, where you will play a critical role in building and owning the data layer and APIs that power P&L and client profitability insights across the firm
• In this role, you will design and implement highly reliable, scalable backend systems that expose accurate, timely financial data to downstream consumers including finance, risk, and client-facing platforms. You will work on complex financial data models, reconcile multiple data sources, and translate ambiguous business requirements into deterministic, observable systems
• You will tackle non-trivial problems that require careful tradeoff analysis across correctness, performance, scalability, and maintainability—while writing clean, efficient Java code. As a senior engineer, you will help shape architecture, establish best practices, and mentor other engineers on the team
• Own the design, implementation, and evolution of the data layer supporting firm-wide P&L and client profitability reporting
• Build and maintain Java-based APIs that expose financial metrics with strong guarantees around accuracy, auditability, and performance
• Design and operate high-throughput data pipelines for ingestion, validation, enrichment, and persistence of financial data
• Partner closely with Finance, Product, and other Engineering teams to turn complex and evolving requirements into robust systems
• Implement observability, data quality checks, and reconciliation mechanisms to ensure trust in financial outputs
• Make architectural decisions around data modeling, storage, and access patterns with a focus on scalability and maintainability
• Mentor junior engineers, contribute to technical standards, and promote a culture of strong system design and operational excellence
• The Finance Technology team builds the core platforms that power financial reporting, profitability analysis, and decision-making across the firm. We work at the intersection of engineering and finance, solving challenging problems where correctness and reliability are paramount
• Our team is composed of collaborative, highly motivated data engineers who value clear thinking, ownership, and continuous improvement. You will have the opportunity to work on business-critical systems, collaborate with stakeholders across the firm, and make a meaningful impact on how financial performance is measured and understood