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

- **Company:** Clear Street
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clearstreet/jobs/8053387

## 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:

- Build and scale mission-critical order and execution management infrastructure in Rust, including order workflows, execution logic, and distributed trading services.
- Design systems that balance low-latency execution, fault tolerance, and strict correctness guarantees across distributed trading workflows
- Shape the architecture and engineering direction of a rapidly evolving trading platform in a fast-moving, iterative environment.
- Develop efficient, audit-ready risk controls and venue-specific trading abstractions with a focus on correctness and performance.
- Translate evolving regulatory and market structure requirements (CAT, Reg NMS, MiFID) into reliable, testable platform capabilities.

What We Value:

- Engineers who are biased toward action and can make thoughtful trade off decisions with incomplete information
- High ownership and accountability across the full software lifecycle
- Strong communication and collaboration across engineering, trading, and operations
- A willingness to challenge assumptions and continuously improve how we build

Requirements:

- Expertise in event‑driven architectures and distributed systems (Kafka, Aeron, or similar)
- Expert at domain‑driven data modeling and design

Nice To Haves:

- Experience with production Rust - Deep knowledge of order lifecycles and capital‑markets workflows (buy‑side EMS, sell‑side OMS, or exchange matching)
- Track record of converting regulatory or compliance requirements into reliable, testable code
- Experience with high-performance messaging protocols; e.g. IPC, multicast, Aeron
- Deep knowledge of protocols like FIX, ITCH, or OUCH
- Experience with a variety of asset classes, including options, futures, crypto
- Familiarity with international markets and global system design
- **Active Team Stack:** Rust, Aeron, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, gRPC, Snowflake

We Offer:

- The opportunity to join a small and 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.
- A meritocratic philosophy that champions collaboration.
- Competitive compensation, benefits, and perks.

The Base Salary Range for this role is $170,000 - $240,000. 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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