Senior / Staff Software Engineer
Clear StreetBase Salary
$170k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop a high-performance Rust backend supporting streaming responses, low-latency tool execution, caching, and reliable model-and-tool orchestration.
- Build the core AI platform powering a copilot within a new AI-native trading experience.
- Design APIs and runtime components for authentication, authorization, rate limiting, auditing, tracing, retries, and fallbacks.
- Build safe trading-action infrastructure with deterministic order previews, confirmation flows, idempotent tool calls, and comprehensive audit logs.
- Partner with product and frontend teams on streaming, citations and grounding, explanations, and reversible action experiences.
- Translate trading and business-domain requirements into secure, resilient platform primitives.
Requirements
- At least eight years of experience and strong proficiency with any programming language.
- Strong knowledge of concurrency, networking, performance profiling, reliability, and distributed systems patterns.
- Experience designing and operating production APIs or services with observability, correctness guarantees, and security considerations.
- Ability to define platform requirements with stakeholders, design architecture, and deliver solutions end-to-end.
- Strong Rust experience in production, including Tokio/async, service design, and performance tuning, is preferred.
- Experience with AI/ML inference platforms, tool execution, streaming, or retrieval/grounding systems is preferred.
- Experience with trading systems, order lifecycles, execution, risk checks, auditability, or other mission-critical financial infrastructure is preferred.
- Deep experience with trading across asset classes and margin types is preferred.
- Experience with Postgres performance and data modeling in high-throughput systems is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package with company equity and 401(k) matching.
- Gender-neutral parental leave and full medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- In-office lunch stipends, stocked kitchens, happy hours, and a well-located office.
- The posting is marked remote (#LI-Remote).
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