Senior / Staff Front End Engineer
Required skills
- TypeScript
- React
- Tanstack
- Tailwind
- Senior Engineer
- Staff Engineer
- web applications
- high-performance
- scalable web applications
- end-user experience
Nice to have
- cloud-native
- clearing and custody system
- horizontal scalability
- thoughtful APIs
- trading platform
- real-time market data
Role summary
Clear Street is seeking a Senior / Staff Front End Engineer to architect and build the next generation of their high-performance trading platform, Clear Street Active. This role involves integrating real-time market data, low-latency execution workflows, and advanced trading tools into a responsive web interface. The engineer will collaborate with a cross-functional team on large-scale initiatives, shaping the future of their prime brokerage experience. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience with modern web technologies like TypeScript, React, Tanstack, and Tailwind, with a strong focus on end-user experience, scalability, and maintainability.
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 started from scratch by building a completely cloud-native clearing and custody system designed for today's complex, global market. Our platform is fully integrated with central clearing houses and exchanges to support billions in trading volume per day. We've agonized about our data model abstractions, created horizontal scalability, and crafted thoughtful APIs. All so we can provide a best-in-class experience for our clients.
By combining highly-skilled product and engineering talent with seasoned finance professionals, we're building the essentials to compete in today's fast-paced markets.
The Role:
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Clear Street Frontend team, you’ll help architect and build the next generation of Clear Street Active, our high-performance trading platform tailored for active traders. The platform integrates real-time market data, low-latency execution workflows, and advanced trading tools into a performant, responsive web interface. You’ll collaborate with a cross-functional team on large-scale initiatives that deliver high-impact solutions and shape the future of our prime brokerage experience.
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 not just in the value we provide our customers but also in the quality of our work. As a member of our team, 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 ethic, and we are committed to providing our team members with the support and resources they need
to succeed.
Tech Stack: Typescript, React, Tanstack, Tailwind
Requirements:
- You have at least 4 years of professional experience implementing web applications.
- 3+ years of experience working with modern web technologies, including demonstrated success at a Senior or higher Engineer level
- Expertise in building and maintaining high-performance, scalable web applications using TypeScript, React, Tanstack, Tailwind
- You prioritize end-user experience, and it shows in your API design, functionality, and performance.
- You have a strong command of design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
- You like working in a team-first environment.
- You take pride in the quality of your work and hold yourself to a high standard.
- Passion for creating a best-in-class developer experience, with an eye for tooling, performance, and maintainability
We Offer:The Base Salary Range for this role is $200,000 - $350,000. This range is representative of the starting base salaries for this role at Clear Street. Where a candidate falls in this range will be based on job related factors such as relevant experience, skills, and location. This range represents Base Salary only, which is just one element of Clear Street's total compensation. The range stated does not include other factors of total compensation such as bonuses or equity.
At Clear Street, we offer competitive compensation packages, company equity, 401k matching, gender neutral parental leave, and full medical, dental and vision insurance. In-office benefits include lunch stipends, fully stocked kitchens, happy hours, a great location, and amazing views.
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 are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality.
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