Senior Software Engineer, Clear Street
Infrastructure
$180-250k
+ Equity
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
$180-250k
+ 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
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 8+ years experience in software engineering, designing, implementing and deploying scalable solutions along with excellent coding abilities
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, or Go, and experience with DevOps tools and practices
- Experience with Linux and containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience with Git principles and command line
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Desirable
- Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and methodologies, with demonstrated experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining pipelines and runner infrastructure, preferably with a CI/CD platform such as GitHub or GitLab
What the job involves
- We are seeking a seasoned Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic Infrastructure Engineering team, focusing on enhancing our Core Platforms, Developer Experience and Security Infrastructure
- In this role, you will work with a team of passionate and highly collaborative engineers to build the best in class common services and tooling for Clear Street
- You will own the design, implementation, and maintenance of services and tools that ensures our engineers are able to work at their best level, smoothing out the bumps of development and creating an engineering experience that borders on "magical"
- In addition to tackling these non trivial problems, you'll help shape development workflows across Clear Street, setting standards on how we design, engineer, and enhance our core applications
- You'll be working as a key part of the Infrastructure team -- a part of the bedrock that defines Clear Street engineering -- being a voice of experience in the team, evolving our technical standards and best practices, and furthering our culture of engineering excellence
- Take ownership of our infrastructure; designing and implementing new deployment solutions that scale
- Build developer toolchain integrations for infrastructure provisioning, service-to-service authentication, API gateway and fine-grained entitlements using Go, gRPC, PostGres and Redis
- Work on scaling out our core platform Kubernetes offering to multiple regions for DR and Resiliency
- Design and implement CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with developers to implement coding practices that allow for test, configuration, and deployment automation
- Work closely with all engineering teams across the company to understand, design, and implement solutions that improve productivity and impact for our business
- Implement tools and integrations to harden our CI/CD pipeline on GitHub - artifact signing and attestations, security of self-hosted runners
- Implement next-gen tooling improvements on internal tools for building ephemeral test environments and continuous deployment
- Implement build pipeline optimizations for CI running on GitHub
- Collaborate with other engineers to improve system performance, resolve sources of latency, and improve stability as you extend reach and functionality
- Act as a voice of experience for CI/CD and resource provisioning; mentoring our team on best practices
- Gain experience on a growing, innovative team
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
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 values
- It's all about the people: At Clear Street, our top priority is our people. We are continuously investing in a culture that promotes collaboration. We help each other through challenges, and celebrate each other's successes.
- Our workplace philosophy: We believe that modern workplaces succeed by virtue of having high-performance workforces that are diverse — in ideas, in cultures, and in experiences. At Clear Street, we put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality.
Company HQ
World Trade Center, New York, NY
Articles
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.
People progressing
Joined as an Executive Assistant. Since then, Tori has been promoted thrice, first to People and Culture Coordinator, and then to Communications Associate before becoming a Senior Marketing Associate.
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