Senior Front End Engineer, Payments Platform

Clear Street; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Company equity

Pension

Parental leave

Medical and dental insurance

In-office 3 days per week

Job summary

Clear Street in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on Front End for Studio (Core) to build scalable, API-driven payments platforms and modern UX. You will translate product needs into robust, testable components and collaborate with product, design and back-end teams.

The role emphasizes ownership of architecture, code reviews, performance and accessibility, and shaping engineering standards across the payments team.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in building large-scale software systems.
• Proven ability to drive technical decisions end-to-end.
• Hands-on with API-driven architectures and event streams.
• Strong testing and automation mindset.
• Experience with distributed systems and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Engineer reliable, API-driven payment systems for global expansion.
• Translate requirements into maintainable, tested components.
• Collaborate with product, design, operations and back-end teams to deliver high-quality experiences.
• Identify and resolve performance, accessibility, and usability issues.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to shared libraries.

Skills

Architectural design

Distributed systems

Automated testing

Code reviews

Tools

Java Spring Boot

Kafka

Kubernetes

Go

Python

TypeScript/React

Job description

Clear Street in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on Front End for Studio (Core) to build scalable, API-driven payments platforms and modern UX. You will translate product needs into robust, testable components and collaborate with product, design and back-end teams.

The role emphasizes ownership of architecture, code reviews, performance and accessibility, and shaping engineering standards across the payments team.