Staff Engineer - remote

Clearbanc

Posted 3 years ago

What your day-to-day will look like:

You’ll have strategic impact over a combination of a large team, a very deep technical problem, and/or a long time horizon
You’ll be a subject matter expert in Clearbanc’s technology stack and an owner of significant components of our code base
You’ll provide considerable guidance across the team, setting short to medium term strategic direction plans
You’ll influence prioritization and resourcing with the management team and cross-functional partners to tackle engineering goals
Contribute to core technological projects as well as experimental work
Work in an agile environment with 2 week sprints

You will thrive if you:

Have a strong technical background and enjoy researching new technologies to stay up-to-date in the tech industry
Have experience solving open-ended problems - this role will encounter a lot of these
Have a track record of creating improvements in business-critical systems around stability, performance, and scalability
Can work in a hands-on environment, while also taking a step back to act as a team leader
Are comfortable with the ambiguity of an early-stage company. This includes being able to transform product sketches into working technology, as well as working in an environment with a fast paced delivery schedule
Are Interested in Clearbanc’s core domain - helping entrepreneurs succeed by building valuable financial and software tools

Technical Requirements:

A Bachelor's or Master’s degree in computer science, software engineering or similar field
8+ years of experience building web applications with technologies like (but not limited to): TypeScript, Vue and Node
Proven track record of scaling web applications on top of large, distributed systems with technologies like (but not limited to): RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, Kafka, PostgreSQL
The technologies of the web (HTTP, JSON APIs, REST, HTML)
SQL database programming and performance
*NIX environments, and Operating system details (including processes, threads and file systems)
Data structures and algorithms
Enterprise systems and asynchronous architectures
Writing maintainable systems