Product Engineer (Software Engineer)
Clera · San Francisco · onsite
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join the product engineering team at a Series A fintech company building consumer financial tools. You will develop backend features that help people manage cash flow, access earnings, and build credit.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build end-to-end product features, including domain models, business logic, and API integrations.
- Deliver incremental releases and iterate based on product and system performance.
- Use SQL and analytics tools to assess product outcomes and system health.
- Debug complex state machines in event-driven systems that use pub/sub messaging.
- Ship code through CI/CD, own implementations through production, and help resolve incidents.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- At least 3 years of experience building backend features for production systems.
- Experience designing and consuming REST APIs, including authentication, authorization, and rate limiting.
- Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues such as Kafka or Pub/Sub, including debugging complex workflows.
- Relational database experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL, including data modeling and query optimization.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD, version control, automated testing, and code review.
- Experience developing consumer-facing products and using SQL and analytics tools to evaluate performance.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and experience in a high-bar engineering environment, preferably including early-stage startup work.
- Go and GCP experience are relevant; distributed systems experience is also useful.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary: $120,000 to $200,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
LOCATION
On-site in San Francisco, California. Seattle candidates may be considered if willing to relocate to San Francisco or Seattle.