Building our Engineering Team to Rebuild the Capital Markets

Clear Street has an ambitious mission: rebuild the infrastructure that supports the capital markets.

We started by tackling prime brokerage. Since launching in 2018, we have been rethinking and rebuilding the legacy systems that are currently used by the industry’s largest prime brokers–many of whom are household names in banking. Despite their size and scale, we understand that these players are relying on technology built 20–30 years ago. It’s no surprise that the client experience at these brokerages is less than ideal.

But building modern technical architectures for mission critical systems is hard, particularly when you’re skiing the steepest slope. Getting the right abstractions, contracts, ergonomics, correctness, and all the rest of it, are the details that add up to platforms that unlock value. We agonize over the details. And when we don’t get it quite right, we do it again until we do.

We are fundamentally oriented towards building platforms internally, and then dog-fooding those platforms for a specific use-case. We started with prime brokerage. But we believe the infrastructure we’re building within our platform can be instantiated beyond just prime brokerage.

Keep reading on our blog:

https://www.clearstreet.io/insights/building-our-engineering-team-to-rebuild-the-capital-markets