About Clair

If you can send your friends money in seconds, why does it still take your employer two weeks to send your paycheck?

At Clair, we are on a mission to create financial freedom for America's workers by giving them a digital banking platform that allows them to get paid as soon as they clock out of work. But we're not just another digital bank or on-demand pay provider. We meet Americans at their place of work by embedding our products within the scheduling, workforce management, and payroll apps they already use every day. 

Learn more about us at getclair.com/about

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

Need more convincing?

Apart from getting to work with our incredible team, here are some of the benefits you can expect when you join Clair:

  • 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

Equal Opportunity Employer Information

Clair is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We actively seek a diverse applicant pool and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

For questions, please email us at careers@getclair.com

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