Software Engineer, Clear Street

• 5+ years of professional experience implementing scalable, distributed services
• We primarily use Golang (Go), though experience in Python is relevant
• Strong system design skills; able to explain architectural trade-offs and paradigms
• Proven track record of building APIs and data models that prioritize usability, reliability, and performance
• Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to mentor and collaborate across teams
• Experience setting engineering standards and applying system design principles in production environments

Desirable

• As an experienced Software Engineer on the CLX IRMA team, you will help design and build Clear Street’s core platform for managing institutional client data and relationships
• IRMA is the Institutional Relationship Management Application, Clear Street’s golden data store for client entities, accounts, relationships, and organizational structures across all business lines
• You’ll be responsible for developing scalable services that capture, validate, and distribute client-related data and structures, ensuring downstream systems like trading, clearing, settlement, and compliance have accurate, timely information
• You will work on challenging system design problems, balancing trade-offs in scale and performance, while implementing clean and efficient code
• The IRMA team builds and maintains the backbone of Clear Street’s client static data ecosystem
• Our systems represent client entities, accounts, and contacts, as well as their legal, organizational, and counterparty relationships
• This infrastructure underpins risk monitoring, compliance, onboarding, entitlements, and reporting
• We collaborate closely across Prime, Clearing, Compliance, and Client Experience teams to ensure that client data is structured, validated, and accessible
• The IRMA platform is evolving rapidly, introducing new services (e.g., client documents, entitlements) and ensuring regulatory alignment as Clear Street expands globally