Lead Engineer, Developer Experience

Clear Street, a modern financial services firm founded in 2018, is seeking a Lead Engineer for Developer Experience to join their Infrastructure Engineering team. This role combines technical leadership with hands-on engineering, focusing on building best-in-class common services and tooling.

The position involves leading a team of ~5 engineers while remaining technically hands-on, designing and implementing scalable deployment solutions, and building developer toolchain integrations. The role requires expertise in CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure provisioning, and development workflow optimization.

As a Lead Engineer, you'll work with technologies including Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL, and Redis, while managing infrastructure through tools like Kubernetes. The role offers a competitive base salary range of $180,000 - $250,000, along with comprehensive benefits including medical insurance, 401k matching, and company equity.

The ideal candidate should have 10+ years of software engineering experience, strong proficiency in languages like Go, Python, or Java, and extensive knowledge of DevOps practices and cloud platforms. This hybrid position requires 4 days per week in the NYC office, where you'll enjoy benefits like lunch stipends and fully stocked kitchens.

Clear Street's Infrastructure Engineering team is crucial to the company's mission of modernizing the brokerage ecosystem. You'll have the opportunity to shape development workflows, set technical standards, and foster a culture of engineering excellence while working on challenging problems that directly impact developer productivity and efficiency.