Clerk is hiring a
Backend Engineer

Summary

Clerk is seeking platform-minded Software Engineers to improve their product's core foundations by building APIs and services, collaborating with teammates, and ensuring stability and reliability. The role requires comfort with Golang and TypeScript, familiarity with distributed systems, and a focus on engineering quality.

Requirements

• You’re comfortable writing idiomatic Golang code and have familiarity with Typescript (our architecture is built on top of GCP as well as Cloudflare)
• You’re passionate about performance and infrastructure challenges like Distributed Systems but you’re pragmatic and value ‘choosing boring solutions’
• You have deep familiarity with common systems architectural patterns like Event-driven / Pub/Sub
• You’re comfortable establishing high quality patterns that other developers adhere to and you fight to maintain those high standards as the product grows in maturity
• You’re comfortable building for the most critical user base; other engineers
• You understand that the purity of your systems are second to the the outcomes they enable for our customers. The entire aim of Clerk is to assume complexity on their behalf. That means making tradeoffs to our own systems

Responsibilities

• Own the core services that other teams are building upon
• Help us scale our architecture intelligently
• Continually progress our tooling
• Collaborate with teammates to release new features
• Be. Customer 0
• Embrace a culture of craft by focusing on engineering quality

Preferred Qualifications

You’re excited about the idea of dogfooding the entirety of Clerk’s product surface

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Equity Ownership
• Health Coverage
• Work Gear
• Flexible Vacation Policy
• Diverse and Inclusive Team