Senior Backend Engineer

Who You Are

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Backend Engineer to join our dynamic team. As a member of Clair’s tech team, you’ll be responsible for developing and maintaining critical components of all of Clair’s systems. The code you develop will directly shape how millions of hourly workers unlock an untapped credit source: their earned wages. We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who is excited to contribute to complex systems such as Clair’s lending program. You have a sense for small details to help us build beautiful products that our customers love to use, and you are passionate about our client's mission and empathize with our users and how they'll use our products.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with backend programming, particularly with PHP and the Laravel framework. You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our web applications' server-side logic, ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front end and external systems.

If you are an independent, self-motivated, and productive engineer, come join a stellar team of engineers to help shape the financial future of America’s workforce!

What You'll Do

• Lead end-to-end design of product requirements and develop high-quality software that can be easily understood and leveraged by others.
• Influence the features and direction of the platform with your own ideas and proactively identify opportunities to improve both business and product development processes.
• Grow with the company as a technical leader, helping to shape our systems and culture by staying updated on latest industry trends and technologies.
• Work cross-functionally and collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintain and monitor software, conduct regular code reviews, and write detailed documentation to ensure reliability and best coding standards across our platform.

Required Experience/Qualifications

• At least 5 years experience building, launching and maintaining products at scale, both on the backend and frontend (ideally with experience at a venture-backed startup).
• Expertise with PHP and ideally at least 3 years working specifically with the Laravel framework.
• Strong understanding of OOP principles and design patterns, database management systems, and RESTful API design.
• Experience in front end technologies is a plus; we use Vue and React.
• Grit and adaptability to thrive with an early-stage team and navigate the unknown.
• You’re independent, self-motivated and can stay efficient and productive on multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
• Well-developed interpersonal, written and verbal communication with an ability to influence decisions.
• Ability to periodically travel to team headquarters in New York City or other locations for team meetings and company on-sites.
• Bonus: Experience on a B2B or fintech product development team.

Location

This is a remote position.

Compensation

• Senior Engineer I: Annual base salary of $124,000.00 - $134,000.00
• Senior Engineer II: Annual base salary of $137,000.00 - $147,000.00

The actual base pay within this range depends on many factors, such as education, skills and experience. Base pay is only one part of Clair’s competitive total compensation package which includes benefits, perks and equity. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. #LI-Remote