Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Clair is a fintech company building a digital banking platform that helps workers access their pay quickly through embedded products integrated with scheduling, workforce management, and payroll applications. The Senior Engineer on the Core Products team owns features end-to-end, leads AI-native engineering practices, designs scalable systems, and measures post-launch business impact.
Responsibilities
- End-to-End Product Ownership: Partner directly with design, product, and data teams to define technical strategy, question assumptions, and evaluate product trade-offs before writing a line of code
- Build with AI & Agents: Architect and deploy features utilizing AI models and autonomous agentic workflows. Drive the integration of modern AI tools to accelerate team velocity and enhance user experience
- System-Wide Architecture: Design resilient systems considering latency, scale, downstream data consumers, and telemetry, ensuring data pipelines receive clean, actionable events
- Measure Business Impact: Own features after launch. Instrument key metrics, monitor performance dashboards, investigate post-release gaps, and iterate based on real user behavior and business outcomes
Skills
- • Technical Excellence: Deep experience building, deploying, and maintaining production-grade applications in cloud-native environments
- • Agentic Workflows & AI Native: Demonstrated experience leveraging AI-assisted workflows for rapid, high-quality code generation
- • Product & Business Acumen: A track record of prioritizing user impact over technical cleverness and holding yourself accountable to business metrics (conversion, retention, operational cost)
- • Systems & Data Mindset: Strong understanding of event-driven architectures and how core transactional systems feed analytical data engineering pipelines
- • Fullstack Development: Ability to work across the stack comfortably, fully owning a product or feature
- + •Frontend• – React.js, TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), and Expo (React Native) – Expertise with these is necessary
- + •Databases• – PostgreSQL
- • Infrastructure – AWS
- • Collaboration & Communication: Exceptional communication skills
- • Travel: Occasional travel for company onsites and project planning, typically 2-4 trips per year, but can vary as needed
- • Experience working with financial technology platforms and payroll systems
- • Specific experience in lending, payments, BNPL, ACH, etc is highly valued
- • Backend – Laravel (PHP) – Some experience is ideal, but not a necessity as long as you have demonstrable expertise building performant backend systems at scale
Benefits
- Offers equity
- Conference stipends
- Top-tier benefits
- Lead projects, mentor others, and grow into a Staff to Principal Engineer. As Clair continues quickly scaling, management opportunities may also open up.
- Flexible work
- 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
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