Senior Backend Engineer, Real-time Data

The role

You will build and maintain real-time streaming services and high-throughput, event-driven backend systems. You will develop distributed systems for market data and trading platform infrastructure.

What you will do

• Build and maintain real-time streaming services that support many concurrent users and connections
• Design and improve high-throughput, event-driven backend systems
• Develop distributed systems for reliable market data and trading platform infrastructure

Required qualifications

• At least 8 years of backend engineering experience
• Strong software fundamentals
• Proficiency in Java or Kotlin
• Experience building real-time streaming backends and high-throughput event-driven systems
• Experience with distributed systems

Nice to have

• Python experience is useful
• TypeScript and React experience is relevant for full-stack work
• Experience with financial markets, trading, crypto, stocks, fintech, market data, or trading venues is a plus
• Experience in a venture-backed fintech startup environment is also useful

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity

About the company

clera is an early-stage fintech team building an AI-enabled platform for traders.