Senior / Staff Software Engineer

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 capab...