Software Engineer, Full Stack - Swaps Platform

Software Engineer, Full Stack – Swaps Platform

London, England, UK

Overview

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 built a cloud-native clearing and custody system designed for today’s complex, global market, and our proprietary prime brokerage platform adds efficiency while focusing on minimizing risk, redundancy, and cost for clients. Our goal is to create a single source-of-truth platform for every asset class, in every country, and in any currency.

By combining highly skilled product and engineering talent with seasoned finance professionals, we are building the essentials to compete in today’s fast-paced markets.

The Role

As an experienced Full Stack Software Engineer you will help build our Equity Swaps team in the UK. You will tackle non-trivial problems that require balancing trade-offs while implementing clean and efficient solutions. You will raise our bar on providing clean and efficient solutions that delight customers and maintain a high SLA. This role is deeply involved with engineering the Total Return Swaps platform for our varied client base including hedge funds, traders and portfolio managers.

• Build highly available, horizontally scalable mission critical applications in a modern technology stack.
• Sharpen front-end and full stack engineering skills by working on challenging problems.
• Work with product managers and users to understand and define new features and drive them to completion.
• Coordinate and collaborate with a team of engineers on common application components with the goal of writing software “as one”.

The Team

As a member of our Swaps Engineering Team, you will contribute to the design and development of our Swaps platform and enhance the client-facing Studio, our flagship product. We seek someone who enjoys solving complex business and technical problems using traditional and emerging technologies, collaborating with engineering teammates, product managers, and business users in an agile environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor\’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of professional experience in related technology OR 3+ years in related technology AND business area
• Experience using Java, Spring, Spring Boot, RDBMS, SOA, React, TypeScript, and microservice-based server-side application development
• Ability to create clean, readable, maintainable code
• Effective and concise oral and written communication skills
• Strong commitment to quality and high standards

Desired Qualifications

• Experience in Capital Markets and/or Prime Brokerage Trade Processing, Equity Swaps
• FIX Protocol

We Offer

Competitive compensation packages, company equity, pension, gender-neutral parental leave, and full medical and dental insurance. In-office presence is preferred with a minimum of three days in the London office.

Our top priority is our people. We foster a collaborative culture and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Clear Street is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected status. We also welcome voluntary self-identification of demographic information for reporting purposes. Providing this information is voluntary and has no impact on candidacy.