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title: 'Senior / Staff Platform Software Engineer at Clear Street'
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# Senior / Staff Platform Software Engineer at Clear Street

- **Company:** Clear Street
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-03
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clearstreet/jobs/8296113

## Job description

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 Team: The mission of the Clear Street Active team is to provide best execution for every asset class in every market. Active is currently building a new, state-of-the-art, cloud-based trading platform providing high-performance traders access to liquidity venues across multiple asset classes, cutting-edge charting capabilities, and sophisticated order handling with the flexibility to service both the active trader and institutional workflows.

The Role:

- You will build the core AI platform that powers a copilot inside a new, AI-native trading experience

- You will develop a high-performance backend in Rust that supports streaming responses, low-latency tool execution, caching, and reliable orchestration of model + tools

- You will design robust APIs and runtime components for AI capabilities: authentication/authorization, rate limits, auditing, tracing, retries, and fallbacks

- You will build safe action infrastructure for trading workflows: deterministic order previews, confirmation flows, idempotent tool calls, and comprehensive audit logs

- You will partner with product and frontend to enable great AI-native UX patterns (streaming, citations/grounding, “why” explanations, reversible actions)

- You will develop a deep understanding of the business domain and help translate it into secure, resilient platform primitives

Tech Stack: Rust (backend), Postgres, TypeScript, React / React Native, LLM APIs / model serving

Requirements:

- At least Eight (8) years of experience and strong proficiency with any programming language
- Strong knowledge of systems programming fundamentals: concurrency, networking, performance profiling, reliability, and distributed systems patterns
- Experience designing and operating production APIs/services with strong observability, correctness guarantees, and security considerations
- Ability to work with stakeholders to define platform requirements, design the architecture, and deliver it end-to-end
- High degree of self-motivation and willingness to jump into unfamiliar areas to solve problems

Bonus:

- Strong Rust experience in production (Tokio/async, service design, performance tuning)
- Experience building platforms for AI/ML inference, tool execution, streaming, or retrieval/grounding systems
- Experience in trading systems (order lifecycle, execution, risk checks, auditability) or other mission-critical financial infrastructure
- Deep experience with trading across asset classes, margin types, etc.
- Experience with Postgres performance and data modeling in high-throughput systems

We Offer: The Base Salary Range for this role is $200,000 - $350,000. 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. 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 are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality.  #LI-Remote

## About Clear Street

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing legacy capital markets infrastructure with a modern, cloud-native, API-first clearing and custody platform.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Funding Stage: Series B)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Kenneth Sicklick, Alex Lawton, John D’Agostini, Andy Volz

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Financial Services, Capital Markets, Fintech
- **Target customers**: Sophisticated individual traders, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, broker-dealers, ETF issuers, family offices, corporate issuers, traditional and alternative asset managers, and investors [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/)
- **Mission**: To give every sophisticated investor access to every asset, in every market, through a unified platform built for speed, transparency, and scale [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/careers)

## Products & Services
- **Clear Street Platform**: A single, cloud-native, end-to-end capital markets platform that provides clearing, custody, execution, and financing services for U.S. equities, options, and fixed-income. The platform is API-based and AI-enhanced, offering horizontally scalable technology with real-time data and risk management [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Total Funding**: $1.0 billion in capital raised [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/about).
- **Key Metrics**:
    - **Customer Balances**: ~$28.4 billion
    - **Notional Traded Per Day**: ~$16 billion
    - **Shares Traded Per Day**: ~550 million
    - **Transaction Growth**: 94% year-over-year
    - **Institutional Clients**: ~700
    - **Employees**: 800+ worldwide [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/about)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed in the provided search results, but the company has raised significant capital from institutional investors.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Modern Infrastructure**: Replaces legacy, mainframe-based systems with a cloud-native, horizontally scalable platform, providing significant cost and efficiency advantages.
- **Single Source of Truth**: All data, risk management, and operations are held in a single system, minimizing risk and operational friction for clients.
- **Multi-Asset Support**: Platform is built to handle multiple asset classes (equities, options, fixed-income, and expanding to futures, FX, etc.) on a unified system.
- **API-First Design**: A modern API-first approach allows for seamless integration and automation for sophisticated clients.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global Expansion**: Recently expanded into the Asia-Pacific region with the acquisition of Boom Securities and has a growing presence in Europe and the UK [clearstreet.io](https://www.clearstreet.io/news/blog/engineering-at-a-mission-driven-fintech).
- **Product Expansion**: Continuously adding new asset classes and services to the platform, aiming to serve a wider variety of investor types.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Actively hiring across engineering, trading, and corporate services to support rapid growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: Employees are united by a clear mission to modernize the financial ecosystem. This mission directly drives daily work and aligns business, operations, and technology goals [clearstreet.io](https://www.clearstreet.io/news/blog/engineering-at-a-mission-driven-fintech).
- **High-Impact Engineering**: With 150+ engineers, the tech team is building core financial infrastructure from the ground up, offering the chance to work on complex, high-stakes problems.
- **Culture & Values**: The company emphasizes integrity, thinking big, a competitive drive to win, client-centricity, and teamwork. It has been recognized as a "Best Place to Work" [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/careers).
- **Global Presence with 18 Office Locations**: Employees can work from hubs in New York (HQ), London, Singapore, Tel Aviv, and many other cities across the US, Europe, and Asia [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/careers).
- **Top Talent**: The company is composed of top talent from both Wall Street and Silicon Valley, creating a unique and high-performance environment [clearstreet.io](https://clearstreet.io/careers).

## Sources
1. [clearstreet.io - About](https://www.clearstreet.io/about)
2. [clearstreet.io - Homepage](https://clearstreet.io/)
3. [clearstreet.io - Careers](https://clearstreet.io/careers)
4. [LinkedIn - Clear Street](https://www.linkedin.com/company/clear-street)
5. [clearstreet.io - Engineering Blog](https://www.clearstreet.io/news/blog/engineering-at-a-mission-driven-fintech)

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