Staff Engineer

Summary

Join Clair, a fintech company revolutionizing payroll, as a Staff Engineer (Fullstack). You will design and architect mission-critical financial applications, ensuring real-time performance at scale. This role demands expertise in backend and frontend development, experience with various databases, and a passion for performance optimization and security. You will lead high-impact projects, make key architectural decisions, and work in a fast-paced, remote environment. Clair offers a competitive salary, equity, unlimited PTO, and top-tier benefits. Your work will directly impact millions of hourly workers by enabling instant access to their wages.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building, launching, and maintaining scalable fintech products
• Demonstrated mastery in backend development is required
• Proficiency in frontend development using React.js, TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), and Expo (React Native)
• Appreciation for beautiful, clear code and great developer experience
• Ability to prototype, develop, and ship entire application features
• Take responsibility for the reliability of your code by incorporating robust, automated testing practices
• Product oriented with a razor sharp attention to detail
• Thrive in an all-remote working environment with the ability to clearly communicate complex technical topics via Slack and other asynchronous tools
• Experience with databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB
• Adaptability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment and navigate uncertainty
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with an ability to influence decisions

Responsibilities

• Own and architect mission-critical financial applications, ensuring real-time, high-availability performance at scale
• Design highly scalable APIs that support millions of transactions, leveraging cutting-edge cloud infrastructure
• Lead high-performance engineering projects from conception to deployment, ensuring code quality, maintainability, and security
• Optimize transaction processing systems to ensure instant payments and sub-millisecond response times
• Make key architectural decisions to scale our on-demand pay and embedded finance solutions
• Set the engineering bar high by leading performance optimizations, security improvements, and system reliability enhancements
• Work alongside top engineers in a fast-paced, high-impact environment where decisions directly impact millions of users

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with financial technology platforms and payroll systems
• Specific experience in lending, payments, BNPL, ACH, etc is highly valued
• Ability to periodically travel for team headquarters meetings and company on-sites

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage, with option to extend to your family
• Fully-paid parental leave
• Company-sponsored 401k, HSA, and FSA
• Unlimited vacation for salaried roles, generous PTO for hourly roles
• Work from home setup allowance
• Access to your earnings every day on Clair
• Company-sponsored short-term and long-term disability insurance