Clear Street
Senior / Staff Software Engineer — Algorithmic Execution Platform
$200K–$350K
Chicago, New York City +2 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- Chicago, New York City
Chicago, IL, United States
New York, NY, United States - Experience
- 7+ years; no alternatives stated.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related STEM field.
About the job
Build Clear Street’s low-latency electronic trading platform, including client order entry, market data, venue connectivity, and real-time risk controls.
What you'll do
- Design and harden the client-facing FIX gateway and manage the order lifecycle.
- Build exchange market data feed handlers and optimize venue connectivity and execution latency.
- Implement real-time pre-trade risk controls and contribute to platform infrastructure and strategy migration.
What they ask for
- 7+ years building production high-performance, low-latency systems in C++.
- Deep knowledge of FIX protocol (4.2/4.4) and the full order lifecycle.
- Experience with exchange market data protocols and production-grade feed handlers; low-latency architecture; multicast messaging; U.S. equity market structure; and Linux performance tuning.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related STEM field.
Nice to have
- Experience building algorithmic execution or SOR infrastructure; familiarity with options or futures execution; pre-trade risk design; CAT reporting; or shared multi-asset execution platforms.
- Exposure to international markets, fractionalization or internalization, Python, containerization, or Kubernetes-based deployment.
Pay
$200,000 - $350,000 USD base salary
Tools
C++, FIX protocol (4.2/4.4), ITCH, OUCH, Aeron, LBM, Linux, Python
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