# Backend Software Engineer - Reference Data Services at Clear Street

- Company: Clear Street
- What the company does: Speed, Transparency and Scale for Sophisticated Investors.™.
- Company website: https://www.clearstreet.io
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York, NY
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-08-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clearstreet/jobs/6675504
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/clear-street-backend-software-engineer-reference-data-services/

## About the role

As an experienced Software Engineer on the FACT Team, you will work with a team of passionate and highly collaborative engineers to build out our core Platform. You will own the design and implementation of new features and services, turning the complexity of processing financial transactions across various asset classes into highly scalable services. You will tackle non trivial problems that will challenge you to flex your system design muscles, balance trade offs, and implement clean efficient code.

## What they're looking for

- You have at least eight (8) years of professional experience implementing highly scalable services (we implement our code in Golang)
- You demonstrate confidence in designing and building flexible APIs which enable a microservice architecture to reliably deliver consistent data
- You have contributed to systems that deliver solutions to complex business problems that handle massive amounts of data. You are drawn towards scale, distributed systems, and associated technologies
- You have a strong command over object-oriented design patterns, data structures, and algorithms
- You communicate technical ideas with ease and always look to collaborate to deliver high quality products
- Your experience will help you mentor team members, define our engineering standards, and drive a system design approach to building new services

Tags: Fact Data