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About the Role

As a Software Engineer on Clear Street’s Payments team, you’ll play a key role in scaling and modernising our rapidly evolving global payments infrastructure. You’ll develop highly reliable, API-driven systems that integrate seamlessly with external banks and payment gateways, streamlining complex operational workflows and supporting our expansion into new lines of business, including digital initiatives. Working closely with cross-functional partners, you’ll contribute to large-scale, high-impact initiatives that enhance our core payments offering, significantly reduce manual operational processes, and offer our customers a smooth payment experience, helping to shape the future of the Clear Street financial ecosystem.

Responsibilities

Engineer highly reliable, API-driven payment systems that streamline operations and support our global expansion.
Translate product and design requirements into clean, maintainable and well-tested components.
Collaborate closely with product managers, business, operations, designers and back-end engineers to deliver high-quality experiences.
Identify and resolve performance, accessibility, and usability issues across the application.
Participate in code reviews, contribute to shared component libraries, and help uphold our engineering standards.
Support the operational health of your features and help maintain a high SLA.

Requirements

Master Java and Spring Boot, and comfortably make tweaks in TypeScript/React, Go, and Python.
A proven track record of driving technical decisions and owning complex, large-scale engineering problems end-to-end.
Hands-on experience building scalable architectures utilizing Kafka and Kubernetes for robust, resilient integrations.
Solid understanding of global payment ecosystems, external banking APIs, and streamlining complex operational workflows.
Strong command of software design patterns, distributed systems, clean code principles, and automated testing strategies.
Ability to actively manage technical debt, negotiate requirements, and ship reliable solutions without demanding perfection.
Actively advocate for better tooling, overhaul inefficient processes, and push our engineering practices forward.
A highly collaborative mindset with a preference for collectively solving intricate architectural challenges.
Don't meet every single requirement? Apply anyway! We are looking for strong engineers with a growth mindset, not perfect resumes. If this role excites you, we want to hear from you.

Skills

Java
Spring Boot
TypeScript
React
Go
Python
Kafka
Kubernetes
gRPC
REST
Cloud (AWS or Azure)
Software design patterns
Distributed systems
Clean code principles
Automated testing strategies

Work Type

Hybrid (minimum three days per week in office)

Benefits

Competitive compensation packages
Company equity
Pension
Gender-neutral parental leave
Full medical and dental insurance

About the Company

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.

Equal Opportunity

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