About Clear Street:
Clear Street is modernizing the brokerage ecosystem. Founded in 2018, Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing the legacy infrastructure used across capital markets.
We started from scratch by building a completely cloud-native clearing and custody system designed for today’s complex, global market. Our platform is fully integrated with central clearing houses and exchanges to support billions in trading volume per day. We’ve agonized about our data model abstractions, created horizontal scalability, and crafted thoughtful APIs. All so we can provide a best-in-class experience for our clients.
By combining highly-skilled product and engineering talent with seasoned finance professionals, we’re building the essentials to compete in today’s fast-paced markets.
The Role:
- Architect new backend services and storage layers for risk based metrics
- Optimize data models for storage and reporting
- Design data ingestion pipelines in a distributed computing environment
- Collect and break down requirements to produce technical designs
- Collaborate with other tech teams, as well as business, operations, and compliance team members
The Team:
The Risk Engineering (RENG) team aims to measure the portfolio risk of both our clients and the firm. As a member of RENG, you will become an expert in various risk methodologies (Reg-T, Portfolio Margin) to build efficient, scalable systems from the ground up to quantify and manage these risks in real-time. This will involve leveraging AI and machine learning to provide answers about the portfolio, positions at client and aggregate levels, and intelligent automation for portfolio optimization.
Requirements:
- At least five (5) years of professional engineering experience.
- You have 5+ years of experience implementing scalable backend services with a statically-typed language (Go / Java preferred)
- You have data-wrangling experience with common scripting languages (Python preferred)
- You are familiar with common microservice architecture paradigms
- You have experience designing and working with APIs to expose information externally
- You leverage strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with non-technical business stakeholders, product managers, and engineers
- You are excited to explore new technologies and become an expert in our tech stack
Bonus:
- Financial risk modeling
- Integration experience with MSCI, NASDAQ
- Stream-processing experience, such as Beam and Flink
- Experience with Typescript/React
Tech Stack:
- Go, Python, Java, gRPC, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Snowflake
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What We Do
Clear Street’s mission is to give every sophisticated investor access to every asset, in every market, through a unified platform built for speed, transparency and scale.
We give our clients the technology, tools, and service once reserved for the largest institutions, rebuilt with modern infrastructure. Our single, cloud-native, end-to-end capital markets platform powers investor growth today and is transforming how they can interact with markets tomorrow.
For more information, visit https://clearstreet.io.
Why Work With Us
Clear Street has thoughtfully cultivated a team that combines problem-solving engineers with financial industry experts across clearing platforms, compliance, and more. The company is focused on building a team that is motivated to tackle fintech innovation and create a collaborative work culture for everyone.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We are requiring employees to be in the office 4 days per week. In-office benefits include lunch stipends, fully stocked kitchens, happy hours, a great location, and amazing views.
