Senior Frontend Engineer, Payments Studio

Clear-Street; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company equity

Pension

Medical and dental insurance

In-office 3 days/week

Job summary

Clear Street is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Front End - Studio (Core) to help scale our modern payments platform from London. You’ll own frontend features interfacing with API-driven services, collaborate with product, design, and backend teams, and contribute to high-impact, scalable solutions in a fast-growing fintech environment.

The role emphasizes strong TypeScript/React skills, Java/Spring Boot awareness, and a hands-on approach to performance, accessibility, and automated

Qualifications

• Master Java and Spring Boot, and comfortably make tweaks in TypeScript/React, Go, and Python.
• Hands-on experience building scalable architectures utilizing Kafka and Kubernetes for robust, resilient integrations.
• Solid understanding of global payment ecosystems, external banking APIs, and streamlining complex operational workflows.
• Strong command of software design patterns, distributed systems, clean code principles, and automated testing strategies.
• Actively advocate for better tooling, overhaul inefficient processes, and push our engineering practices forward.
• A highly collaborative mindset with a preference for collectively solving intricate architectural challenges.

Responsibilities

• Engineer highly reliable, API-driven payment systems that streamline operations and support our global expansion.
• Translate product and design requirements into clean, maintainable and well-tested components.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, business, operations, designers and back-end engineers to deliver high-quality experiences.
• Identify and resolve performance, accessibility, and usability issues across the application.
• Participate in code reviews, contribute to shared component libraries, and help uphold our engineering standards.
• Support the operational health of your features and help maintain a high SLA.

Skills

TypeScript/React

Java

Spring Boot

Go

Python

Kafka

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

Job description

Clear Street is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Front End - Studio (Core) to help scale our modern payments platform from London. You’ll own frontend features interfacing with API-driven services, collaborate with product, design, and backend teams, and contribute to high-impact, scalable solutions in a fast-growing fintech environment.

The role emphasizes strong TypeScript/React skills, Java/Spring Boot awareness, and a hands-on approach to performance, accessibility, and automated