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Senior Software Engineer - Futures and Options Execution Services

London
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About Clear Street

Clear Street’s mission is to give every sophisticated investor access to every asset, in every market, through a unified platform built for speed, transparency and scale.

We give our clients the technology, tools, and service once reserved for the largest institutions, rebuilt with modern infrastructure. Our single, cloud-native, end-to-end capital markets platform powers investor growth today and is transforming how they can interact with markets tomorrow.

For more information, visit https://clearstreet.io.

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on Clear Street’s futures and options execution services team, you’ll play a key role in designing and building the next generation of our Clear Street futures and options EMS platform from the ground up. You’ll develop a high-performance platform that brings together real-time market data, low latency exchange connectivity and execution, robust risk controls, and advanced trading capabilities within a fast, responsive web interface. Working closely with cross-functional partners, you’ll contribute to large-scale, high impact initiatives that enhance our prime brokerage offering and help shape the future of the Clear Street trading experience.

What You’ll Do

  • Building a brand new EMS platform for Listed Futures and Options.
  • Translating product and design requirements into clean, maintainable and well-tested components.
  • Collaborating closely with product managers, business, traders, designers, and back-end engineers to deliver high-quality experiences.
  • Identifying and resolving performance, accessibility, and usability issues across the application.
  • Participating in code reviews, contributing to shared component libraries, and helping uphold our engineering standards.
  • Supporting the operational health of your features and helping maintain a high SLA.

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The Team

You will work with a team of talented, passionate, and highly collaborative engineers. Working together, we have built a platform that serves institutional clients and is at the forefront of technological innovation. Our engineers take pride in not just the value we provide our customers but the quality of our work. You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies, collaborate with colleagues from diverse backgrounds, and make a meaningful impact on the financial industry. We value creativity, innovation, strong work ethics, and we are committed to providing our team members with the support and resources they need to succeed.

Tech Stack

  • Java and/or Rust
  • AWS
  • FIX protocol
  • Kafka
  • Kubernetes and Cloud (AWS or Azure)

What We’re Looking For

  • 8+ years of professional software engineering experience using Java.
  • At least 4 years of experience working with modern technologies, including a proven track record operating at Senior Engineer level.
  • Hands-on experience building and supporting low-latency, front-office trading systems.
  • Deep understanding of execution management systems (EMS), including their core functionality and workflows.
  • Strong knowledge of software design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
  • A collaborative mindset and a preference for working in team-oriented environments.
  • A strong commitment to engineering quality, reliability, and high development standards.
  • Passion for delivering a best-in-class developer experience, with a focus on tooling, performance, and maintainability.

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What We Offer

At Clear Street, we offer competitive compensation packages, company equity, pension, gender-neutral parental leave, and full medical and dental insurance. Our belief has always been that we are better as a business when we are all together in person. As such, we require employees to be in the office a minimum of three days per week.

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 put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

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Skills

Java
Rust
AWS
FIX protocol
Kafka
Kubernetes
Cloud computing
Execution management systems
Low-latency trading
Software design patterns
Data structures
Algorithms
Front-office trading systems
System architecture
Performance optimization
API development

Location

London, England, United Kingdom

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