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The Global FX Engineering Lead will design, develop, and manage FX technology platforms, ensuring high-quality code and collaborating with various stakeholders.
About Clear Street:
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.
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.
For more information, visit https://clearstreet.io.
The Role: Global FX Engineering Lead
As a Global FX Engineering Lead, you will own the design, build, and evolution of mission-critical FX technology across the trade lifecycle. This is a hands-on leadership role for a strong Java engineer who can still code every day, lead by example, and partner closely with trading, sales, operations, finance, risk, and other end users to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions.
Key Responsibilities- Lead the architecture, hands-on development, and delivery of strategic FX platforms and services.
- Write high-quality production code primarily in Java, setting the standard for engineering excellence, design, and operational rigor.
- Own front-to-back FX workflows including pricing, order capture, execution, trade processing, risk, position management, settlements, and reporting.
- Partner closely with business stakeholders and users to understand workflow pain points, define requirements, and deliver practical solutions.
- Drive the design of low-latency, resilient, and scalable services, APIs, and event-driven systems for global FX trading and post-trade processing.
- Lead technical design reviews, mentor engineers, and remain deeply involved in implementation, troubleshooting, and release delivery.
- Improve system performance, observability, stability, and control frameworks across the FX estate.
- Work across teams to integrate FX platforms with surrounding systems including market data, risk, finance, operations, treasury, and regulatory reporting.
- Provide hands-on support for production issues, release planning, and continuous improvement of development and delivery practices.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- 10+ years of software engineering experience with strong hands-on server-side development in Java.
- Deep front-to-back FX product and workflow knowledge across spot, forwards, swaps, NDFs, and related post-trade processes.
- Strong experience building distributed, high-performance systems within an investment bank, broker-dealer, market maker, or electronic trading environment.
- Proven ability to design microservices and event-driven architectures, with strong understanding of concurrency, design patterns, and performance optimization.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to debug complex production issues and make sound architectural decisions under pressure.
- Technology & Domain Expertise:
- Strong Java engineering skills with hands-on experience building APIs, services, and real-time processing components.
- Good understanding of messaging and streaming patterns using technologies such as Kafka, and of modern data storage approaches for transactional and analytical workloads.
- Practical experience designing systems for front-office, middle-office, and back-office integration across the FX trade lifecycle.
- Platform & Engineering Practices: Experience with cloud-native deployment patterns, containerization, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and production support.
- Business Partnership: Excellent communication skills and a demonstrated ability to work directly with traders, sales, operations, finance, risk, and other end users.
- Leadership: Experience leading engineers, driving delivery, and influencing technical direction while remaining hands-on in coding.
- Preferred: Experience with electronic trading, pricing, market connectivity, and building globally distributed FX platforms.
- Preferred: Familiarity with AWS and modern observability tooling in mission-critical trading environments.
We Offer:
At Clear Street, we offer competitive compensation packages, company equity, pension, and full medical and dental insurance. Our belief has always been that we are better as a business when we are all together in person. As such, we are requiring employees to be in the office a minimum of three days per week.
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 put in the effort to make such a workplace a daily reality and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
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Top Skills
AWS
Java
Kafka
Clear Street London, England Office
London, United Kingdom
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