# Senior Software Engineer, Clearing Engineering

Hiring organization: [CoinDesk](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/coindesk)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/9412bd80-d99b-4165-8e27-31c189d6b325

Listed on CoinDesk's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: New York, NY
- Salary: 180000 – 230000 USD per year

## Summary

This role builds the core infrastructure and data systems for a regulated digital asset clearing platform, handling risk management, settlement and regulatory reporting at scale. It suits experienced backend engineers who have worked on mission-critical systems in finance and want to apply distributed systems expertise to blockchain infrastructure.

_Our summary, not CoinDesk's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Airflow, Apache Kafka, Apache Superset, Databricks, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Docker, Gemini, Google BigQuery, Java, Kubernetes, MongoDB, Redis, Snowflake, Tableau

## Required

- 6+ years engineering experience at regulated financial institutions
- Advanced Java proficiency
- Middleware implementation experience with Aeron and Kafka
- Expertise designing data structures, event schemas and database models
- SQL and NoSQL database management
- Testing methodologies and SDLC best practices including Twelve-Factor App and distributed HA/DR
- Understanding of trade lifecycle from capture through settlement
- Problem-solving in dynamic startup environments

## Nice to have

- Cloud and DevOps experience with AWS, GCP, Kubernetes or Docker
- Workflow orchestration tools like Airflow or DBT
- FIX and FIXML protocol knowledge
- Big data and data lake experience
- BI tool proficiency for data visualization

Apply on CoinDesk's site: https://bullish.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CoinDesk/job/New-York/Senior-Software-Engineer--Clearing-Engineering_JR2001145