Software Engineer - Payments Systems

<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About Clear Street</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For more information, visit <a href="https://clearstreet.io/">https://clearstreet.io</a>.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Role</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Engineer highly reliable, API-driven payment systems that streamline operations and support our global expansion.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Translate product and design requirements into clean, maintainable and well-tested components.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Collaborate closely with product managers, business, operations, designers and back-end engineers to deliver high-quality experiences.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Identify and resolve performance, accessibility, and usability issues across the application.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Participate in code reviews, contribute to shared component libraries, and help uphold our engineering standards.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Support the operational health of your features and help maintain a high SLA.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>The Team</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Tech Stack</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Java Spring Boot, Kafka, gRPC/REST, Kubernetes and Cloud (AWS or Azure).</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What We’re Looking For</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Master Java and Spring Boot, and comfortably make tweaks in TypeScript/React, Go, and Python.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A proven track record of driving technical decisions and owning complex, large-scale engineering pro