Software Engineer - Institutional Relationship Management Application

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:

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.

• 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.

Preferred, but not required:

• Golang, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience with client static data systems, risk/compliance, or financial services infrastructure.

• A chance to work on a foundational platform critical to Clear Street’s growth.
• A modern codebase with low technical debt and room for innovation.
• A collaborative, meritocratic environment that values creativity and execution.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and perks.

We offer:

• The opportunity to join a growing team of good people, where you can make a difference.
• A new, high-quality code base with little technical debt and room to build new services and features.
• An environment that embraces the utility of a DevOps oriented culture and combines it with a focus on CI/CD methodology.
• A meritocratic philosophy that champions collaboration.
• Competitive compensation, benefits, and perks.

The Base Salary Range is $170,000 - $220,000. These ranges are representative of the starting base salaries for this role at Clear Street. Which range a candidate fits into and where a candidate falls in the range will be based on job related factors such as relevant experience, skills, and location. These ranges represent Base Salary only, which is just one element of Clear Street's total compensation. The ranges stated do not include other factors of total compensation such as bonuses or equity.

At Clear Street, we offer competitive compensation packages, company equity, 401k matching, gender neutral parental leave, and full medical, dental and vision insurance. Our belief has always been that we are better as a business when we are all together in person. 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.

Our top priority is our people. We’re continuously investing in a culture that promotes collaboration. We help each other through challenges and celebrate each other's successes. We believe that modern workplaces succeed by virtue of having high-performance workforces that are diverse — in ideas, in cultures, and in experiences. We put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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