Backend Software Engineer - Market Data Services
Clear Street1 year ago
Base Salary
$200k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and implement new features and services for Clear Street’s core platform.
- Build highly scalable services that process financial transactions across multiple asset classes.
- Design flexible APIs, strategic caching, and robust signaling for market and reference data services.
- Mentor teammates and help evolve technical standards, best practices, and system-design approaches.
Requirements
- At least eight years of professional experience implementing highly scalable services, using Go.
- Experience designing and building flexible APIs that support reliable microservice architectures and consistent data delivery.
- Experience building systems that solve complex business problems and handle massive amounts of data.
- Interest and experience in scale, distributed systems, and related technologies.
- Strong command of object-oriented design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
- Ability to communicate technical ideas clearly and collaborate effectively.
- Experience mentoring team members, defining engineering standards, and applying system-design practices.
Benefits
- Company equity and 401(k) matching.
- Gender-neutral parental leave.
- Full medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Employees are required to work in the office 4 days per week.
- In-office benefits include lunch stipends, fully stocked kitchens, happy hours, and a central location with views.
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About Clear Street
Clear Street builds a cloud-native brokerage and clearing platform for institutional investors, combining prime brokerage, clearing, and custody with APIs and modern infrastructure. It serves hedge funds, professional traders, and other market participants, helping them access multiple asset classes and markets through a unified system. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, the company is privately held and operates regulated entities supporting global capital markets.