Clear Street - Global FX Engineering Lead
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Requirements
• 10+ years of software engineering experience with strong hands-on server-side development in Java. • Deep front-to-back FX product and workflow knowledge across spot, forwards, swaps, NDFs, and related post-trade processes. • Strong experience building distributed, high-performance systems within an investment bank, broker-dealer, market maker, or electronic trading environment. • Proven ability to design microservices and event-driven architectures, with strong understanding of concurrency, design patterns, and performance optimization. • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to debug complex production issues and make sound architectural decisions under pressure. • Technology & Domain Expertise: • Strong Java engineering skills with hands-on experience building APIs, services, and real-time processing components. • Good understanding of messaging and streaming patterns using technologies such as Kafka, and of modern data storage approaches for transactional and analytical workloads. • Practical experience designing systems for front-office, middle-office, and back-office integration across the FX trade lifecycle. • Platform & Engineering Practices: Experience with cloud-native deployment patterns, containerization, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and production support. • Business Partnership: Excellent communication skills and a demonstrated ability to work directly with traders, sales, operations, finance, risk, and other end users. • Leadership: Experience leading engineers, driving delivery, and influencing technical direction while remaining hands-on in coding. • Preferred: Experience with electronic trading, pricing, market connectivity, and building globally distributed FX platforms. • Preferred: Familiarity with AWS and modern observability tooling in mission-critical trading environments.
Responsibilities
• Lead the architecture, hands-on development, and delivery of strategic FX platforms and services. • Write high-quality production code primarily in Java, setting the standard for engineering excellence, design, and operational rigor. • Own front-to-back FX workflows including pricing, order capture, execution, trade processing, risk, position management, settlements, and reporting. • Partner closely with business stakeholders and users to understand workflow pain points, define requirements, and deliver practical solutions. • Drive the design of low-latency, resilient, and scalable services, APIs, and event-driven systems for global FX trading and post-trade processing. • Lead technical design reviews, mentor engineers, and remain deeply involved in implementation, troubleshooting, and release delivery. • Improve system performance, observability, stability, and control frameworks across the FX estate. • Work across teams to integrate FX platforms with surrounding systems including market data, risk, finance, operations, treasury, and regulatory reporting. • Provide hands-on support for production issues, release planning, and continuous improvement of development and delivery practices.
Benefits
• At Clear Street, we offer competitive compensation packages, company equity, pension, 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 are requiring employees to be in the office a minimum of three days per week.
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