# Backend Software Engineer - Reference Data Services

**Company:** [Clear Street](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/clear-street)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Go, gRPC, Python, Postgres, Snowflake, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, APIs, Microservices, Distributed Systems, System Design
**Posted:** 2026-04-18

> Builds scalable backend services for reference data products like security masters and market data using Go and microservices. Requires 8+ years experience in distributed systems, API design, and mentoring.

## Job Description

## FACT Team Stack
- Go, gRPC, Python, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes

## Responsibilities
- Own the design and implementation of new features and services for core Platform.
- Turn complexity of processing financial transactions across asset classes into highly scalable services.
- Tackle system design challenges, balance trade-offs, and implement clean, efficient code.
- Mentor teammates, evolve technical standards and best practices, and promote system design culture.

## Requirements
- At least 8 years of professional experience implementing highly scalable services (primarily in Golang).
- Confidence in designing and building flexible APIs for microservice architecture to deliver consistent data reliably.
- Experience with systems handling massive amounts of data, scale, distributed systems, and related technologies.
- Strong command of object-oriented design patterns, data structures, and algorithms.
- Ability to communicate technical ideas effectively and collaborate on high-quality products.
- Experience mentoring team members, defining engineering standards, and driving system design.

## Compensation
- Base Salary Range: $200,000 - $250,000 (based on experience, skills, location).
- Additional: bonuses, equity, 401k matching, full medical/dental/vision, parental leave.


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