About the role
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 Team
The mission of the Clear Street Active team is to provide best execution for every asset class in every market. Active is currently building a new, state-of-the-art, cloud-based trading platform providing high-performance traders access to liquidity venues across multiple asset classes, cutting-edge charting capabilities, and sophisticated order handling with the flexibility to service both the active trader and institutional workflows.
The Role
- You will build a best-in-class web experience for sophisticated retail traders on a new, AI-native active trading platform
- You will ship core active trading workflows: order entry, positions/holdings, blotter/activity, watchlists, alerts, and high-information-density views
- You will build AI-native UI patterns that earn trust: streaming answers, grounded citations/context, uncertainty signaling, pre-trade confirmations, and safe “undo/rollback” experiences where applicable
- You will work closely with users and stakeholders to define features, iterate quickly, and drive projects to completion
- You will collaborate deeply with backend engineers to design clean contracts for low-latency trading interactions and AI tool integration
- You will develop a deep understanding of the markets/trading domain and how to translate it into intuitive, powerful UX Tech Stack: TypeScript, React (Web), React Native (mobile), modern frontend tooling, backend services in Rust, Postgres
Requirements
- At least Eight (8) years of experience and strong proficiency with any programming language; strong TypeScript/React proficiency preferred
- Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals and practical UI engineering (performance, state management, component architecture)
- Experience building complex, data-dense product surfaces (dashboards, analytics UIs, trading-like workflows, or similarly high-stakes UX)
- Ability to work with stakeholders to develop product ideas, design the implementation, and deliver end-to-end
- High degree of self-motivation and willingness to jump into unfamiliar areas to solve problems
Bonus
- Experience building trading, fintech, or other high-availability, low-latency product experiences
- Experience designing AI assistant/copilot UX (tool calls, confirmations, citations/grounding, failure handling)
- Deep experience with trading across asset classes, margin types, etc.
- Experience with real-time streaming UI patterns and performance optimization under high update rates
- Experience with any parts of our stack beyond frontend (Rust services, Postgres)
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. #LI-Remote