Staff Software Engineer - Risk

Job Description

Clear Street is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join its Risk Engineering (RENG) team in New York. The RENG team is responsible for measuring the portfolio risk of clients and the firm. The engineer will play a crucial role in building efficient, scalable systems from the ground up to quantify and manage these risks in real-time.

The Staff Software Engineer will architect new backend services and storage layers for risk-based metrics, optimize data models for storage and reporting, and design data ingestion pipelines in a distributed computing environment. They will collaborate with other tech teams, as well as business, operations, and compliance team members.

Responsibilities include:

• Architect new backend services and storage layers for risk based metrics
• Optimize data models for storage and reporting
• Design data ingestion pipelines in a distributed computing environment
• Collect and break down requirements to produce technical designs
• Collaborate with other tech teams, as well as business, operations, and compliance team members

Requirements:

• At least ten (10) years of professional engineering experience.
• 10+ years of experience implementing scalable backend services with a statically-typed language (Go / Java preferred)
• Data-wrangling experience with common scripting languages (Python preferred)
• Familiarity with common microservice architecture paradigms
• Experience designing and working with APIs to expose information externally
• Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with non-technical business stakeholders, product managers, and engineers
• Excitement to explore new technologies and become an expert in our tech stack

Clear Street offers:

• Competitive compensation packages
• Company equity
• 401k matching
• Gender neutral parental leave
• Full medical, dental and vision insurance
• Lunch stipends
• Fully stocked kitchens
• Happy hours