About Clear Street:

Clear Street is building financial infrastructure for today’s institutions. Founded in 2018, Clear Street is an independent, non-bank prime broker 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. Clear Street’s proprietary prime brokerage platform adds significant efficiency to the market, while focusing on minimizing risk and cost for clients. Our goal is to create a single source-of-truth platform for every asset class, in every country, and in any currency.

By combining highly-skilled product and engineering talent with seasoned finance professionals, we are building the essentials to compete in today’s fast-paced markets.

The Role:

As an experienced Front End Software Engineer you will help build our flagship Clear Street Studio, a modern prime brokerage experience. You will tackle non trivial problems that force you to balance trade offs while implementing clean and efficient solutions. You will raise our bar on providing clean and efficient solutions that delight and offer the best experience for our customers. You will push our operational standards and ensure that we are able to offer and maintain a high SLA.

This role is deeply involved with engineering the next generation of our state of the art Studio (portal) for our varied client base including hedge funds, traders and portfolio managers.   

• Enhance and engineer web applications using React and TypeScript.
• Work with product managers on product requirements for implementation
• Beyond developing with Typescript and React, you should bring a UI/UX design and planning perspective to the team.
• In addition to working with other engineers, this role allows you to engage with and influence various other teams across the company to make informed design and development decisions for client facing applications.
• Coordinate and collaborate with engineers on common application components to further implement a design experience that keeps consistency for our brand across our platforms
• Implement integration and unit tests 
• Develop code in a stateful application framework (React/Redux)
• Help drive thoughtful architectural choices derived from careful evaluation of historical solutions and their results.

The Team:

You will work with a team of talented, passionate and highly collaborative engineers. Working together, we have built a platform that serves institutional clients and is at the forefront of technological innovation. Our engineers take pride in not just the value we provide our customers but the quality of our work. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, collaborate with colleagues from diverse backgrounds, and make a meaningful impact on the financial industry. We value creativity, innovation, strong work ethics, and we are committed to providing our team members with the support and resources they need to succeed. 

Tech Stack: React, TypescriptJava, Spring Boot, Docker and Kubernetes, Postgres and AWS (S3, SQS, Kinesis)

Requirements:

• At least five (5) years of professional experience implementing scalable web solutions.
• BS in Computer Science or related field
• You have a deep and strong understanding of React and Typescript.
• You are able to recognize and find solutions to performance issues.
• You believe in and have experience with UI/UX testing. (unit and integration).
• You aim for operational excellence.
• You obsess over the user experience.
• You like working in a team first environment.
• You take pride in the quality of your work and hold yourself to a high standard.

We Offer:

The Base Salary Range for this role is $140,000–220,000. This range is representative of the starting base salaries for this role at Clear Street. Where a candidate falls in this range will be based on job-related factors such as relevant experience, skills, and location. This range represents Base Salary only, which is just one element of Clear Street’s total compensation. The range stated does 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. As such, beginning on January 2, 2023, 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, cultures, and experiences. We put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality and are proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. #LI-Hybrid