Global FX Engineering Lead

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Clear Street

London, UK

Hybrid

Posted April 18, 2026

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: Global FX Engineering Lead

As a Global FX Engineering Lead, you will own the design, build, and evolution of mission-critical FX technology across the trade lifecycle. This is a hands-on leadership role for a strong Java engineer who can still code every day, lead by example, and partner closely with trading, sales, operations, finance, risk, and other end users to deliver scalable, high-quality solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the architecture, hands-on development, and delivery of strategic FX platforms and services.
Write high-quality production code primarily in Java, setting the standard for engineering excellence, design, and operational rigor.
Own front-to-back FX workflows including pricing, order capture, execution, trade processing, risk, position management, settlements, and reporting.
Partner closely with business stakeholders and users to understand workflow pain points, define requirements, and deliver practical solutions.
Drive the design of low-latency, resilient, and scalable services, APIs, and event-driven systems for global FX trading and post-trade processing.
Lead technical design reviews, mentor engineers, and remain deeply involved in implementation, troubleshooting, and release delivery.
Improve system performance, observability, stability, and control frameworks across the FX estate.
Work across teams to integrate FX platforms with surrounding systems including market data, risk, finance, operations, treasury, and regulatory reporting.
Provide hands-on support for production issues, release planning, and continuous improvement of development and delivery practices.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

10+ years of software engineering experience with strong hands-on server-side development in Java.
Deep front-to-back FX product and workflow knowledge across spot, forwards, swaps, NDFs, and related post-trade processes.
Strong experience building distributed, high-performance systems within an investment bank, broker-dealer, market maker, or electronic trading environment.
Proven ability to design microservices and event-driven architectures, with strong understanding of concurrency, design patterns, and performance optimization.
Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to debug complex production issues and make sound architectural decisions under pressure.
Technology & Domain Expertise:

Strong Java engineering skills with hands-on experience building APIs, services, and real-time processing components.
Good understanding of messaging and streaming patterns using technologies such as Kafka, and of modern data storage approaches for transactional and analytical workloads.
Practical experience designing systems for front-office, middle-office, and back-office integration across the FX trade lifecycle.

Platform & Engineering Practices: Experience with cloud-native deployment patterns, containerization, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and production support.
Business Partnership: Excellent communication skills and a demonstrated ability to work directly with traders, sales, operations, finance, risk, and other end users.
Leadership: Experience leading engineers, driving delivery, and influencing technical direction whi