Software Engineer, Securities Finance - UK

About Clear Street:

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 Role: 

• You will build scalable and reliable microservices for pre-trade, trade management, inventory management and pricing functions across the various Securities Finance businesses

• You will work closely with users (traders, customers, counterparties) and product to understand requirements and rapidly iterate on your functionality

• You will own your system end-to-end, including support and ongoing improvements

• You will develop a deep understanding of the business domain

The Team:

The Securities Finance Engineering team builds trading platforms for various Securities Finance businesses including Securities Lending, Repo, Agency Lending and Delta 1. We are a team of specialists with skills across various aspects of engineering, quantitative modeling and product.

Clear Street is building out its Securities Finance Trading Platform from the ground up. Members of the team have the unique opportunity in the industry to build large scale, sophisticated trading systems on a modern and scalable technology stack from scratch.

Tech Stack: 

We employ a wide variety of technologies including Java/Spring Boot (for our service mesh), React (front-end), python and R for ETL/Analytics and statistical modeling respectively. Clear Street Engineering provides a modern developer experience for engineers, including excellent CI/CD tooling and a managed k8s environment.

Requirements:

• At least eight (8) years of professional experience building microservices in Java/Spring Boot, building financial services applications is a strong preference

• Have practical experience with relational databases like Postgres

• Hands on experience working with Kafka 

• Understanding of distributed systems architecture

• Understanding of multi-threading and concurrency

• Understanding of Docker and container orchestration

• Experience with AWS / Cloud native tooling

Preferences:

• Spring Security, Oauth, RBAC integration

• Prior experience going from zero to one (conceptualizing, building and rolling out a new product)

• Contract-first development

• Experience owning a public-facing API