Software Engineer - Front End - Studio (Core)

Software Engineer - Front End - Studio (Core) - Greenhouse; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Clear Street is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Front-End) to contribute to the Studio platform in London. You will own complex, user-facing features, drive system design decisions, and mentor junior engineers.

You’ll collaborate with product, design and backend teams to deliver fast, reliable experiences for hedge funds and portfolio managers. As a senior member, you will set coding standards, improve testing, tooling and performance, and ensure high availability across services while

Qualifications

• 5+ years of front-end development experience.
• Strong knowledge of React and TypeScript.
• Experience delivering large-scale front-end systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of complex, user-facing features for Clear Street Studio.
• Drive system-design decisions balancing scale, performance, and maintainability.
• Set and evolve front-end engineering standards including testing and tooling.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews and pairing.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Front-end architecture

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Webpack

Jest

Job description

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

As a Senior Software Engineer (Front-End), you will help build our flagship Clear Street Studio, a modern prime brokerage experience. You will tackle non-trivial problems that force you to balance trade-offs while implementing clean and efficient solutions. You will raise our bar on delivering solutions that delight and offer the best experience for our customers, and you will push our operational standards to ensure we can offer and maintain a high SLA.

This role is deeply involved in engineering the next generation of our state-of-the-art Studio (portal) for a varied client base including hedge funds, traders, and portfolio managers. As a senior member of the team, you will set technical direction, mentor other engineers, and own significant parts of the platform end to end.

What You'll Do

• Lead the design and delivery of complex, user-facing features and shared foundations for Clear Street Studio.
• Drive a system-design approach to building new front-end services, balancing trade-offs across scale, performance, and maintainability.
• Set and evolve engineering standards across the Studio Core team, including architecture, testing, tooling, and code quality.
• Mentor and grow other engineers through code review, pairing, and technical guidance.
• Partner with product, design, and back-end leads to shape roadmaps and turn ambiguous problems into clear technical plans.
• Own the operational excellence of your domains, ensuring reliability, observability, and a high SLA.
• Clearly explain the nuances of system design and front-end paradigms to engineers and stakeholders alike.

The Team

You will join the Studio Core front-end team, a group of talented, passionate and highly collaborative engineers who own the foundations of the Clear Street Studio experience. Working together, we have built a platform that serves institutional clients and is at the forefront of technological innovation. Our engineers take pride not just in the value we provide our customers, but in the quality of our work.