Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Clasp is a venture-backed, mission-driven startup transforming access to education and career pathways through education financing and employer talent solutions. The Full Stack Engineer will build and maintain end-to-end features across frontend, backend, and infrastructure for the application management and loan repayment platform, while collaborating with product and design teams. The role also involves improving system reliability, supporting deployments, and participating in a strong DevOps culture.
Responsibilities
- Build, enhance, and maintain features across our application management and loan repayment platform, contributing to both frontend and backend systems
- Leave the codebase and systems better than you found them by improving clarity, reliability, documentation, and developer experience as you work
- Develop polished, accessible user experiences for students and administrators, and reliable APIs for internal and external partners
- Build with a strong sense of customer empathy, considering usability, accessibility, and long-term maintainability in everyday engineering decisions
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to understand requirements and translate them into well-designed, maintainable solutions
- Write high-quality, well-tested code and participate in code reviews to continuously improve team standards
- Contribute to system reliability and performance by improving existing services, fixing bugs, and addressing technical debt
- Participate in our DevOps culture by owning the services you build, supporting deployments, and helping maintain production stability
- Learn and grow by taking on increasingly complex problems over time, with support and mentorship from senior engineers
- Participate in on-call rotations as needed, contributing to resilient, observable, and well-monitored systems
Skills
- • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience (bootcamp or professional experience)
- • 5+ years of experience building web applications in a production environment (startup or fast-paced product team preferred)
- • Experience contributing to full-stack systems, including frontend, backend, and basic cloud infrastructure
- • A customer-first mindset and a sense of ownership over the quality and durability of the work you ship
- • Care for craft—taking pride in improving existing systems, not just shipping new features
- • Comfort working with modern CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows (e.g., GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins)
- • Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners and communicate technical ideas clearly
- • Languages & Frameworks: JavaScript / TypeScript, React, Next.js, Python (Django, Flask, FastAPI, or similar)
- • Frontend: HTML, CSS, responsive design principles; familiarity with Figma designs
- • Databases: SQL (PostgreSQL preferred)
- • Cloud: AWS or Google Cloud
- • DevOps: CI/CD pipelines, basic cloud and container tooling
- Please note: We are not able to provide visa sponsorship of any kind at this time, including for current or future employment
- Remote Policy To ensure smooth collaboration with the Boston-based team, we are limiting to Eastern/Central timezones with the expectation that it will be Boston hours. Additionally, they must be within 1 hour of a medium hub/ large airport with multiple daily flights to Boston. We are targeting the broader New England area to start as we expect that the candidate to have frequent travel to Boston for onboarding and ongoing collaboration
- Experience working in or interest in regulated environments (e.g., fintech, healthcare, education) is a plus, but not required
Benefits
- Competitive cash and equity compensation
- Health benefits (medical, dental, vision) and 401(k)
- Commuter benefits
- Flexible PTO policy
- A collaborative, mission-driven team with strong technical mentorship
- Opportunities to grow your skills and career as Clasp scales
- Frequent travel to Boston for onboarding and ongoing collaboration
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