[Hiring] Senior Engineer, Core Products @Clair

Role Description

At Clair, we are building technology that transforms how people access their pay. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Core Products team, your job extends well beyond converting tickets into pull requests. We are looking for an engineer who operates like a Product Manager:

• Full ownership of the feature lifecycle
• Obsessively measures post-launch business outcomes
• Designs systems with downstream impacts—like data pipelines and analytics—in mind

You will lead the adoption of AI-native engineering practices across the team, leveraging state-of-the-art models, building autonomous agents, and embedding agentic workflows into both our core product architecture and internal development processes.

Your work will directly enable millions of hourly workers to access financial freedom.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

Qualifications

• Deep experience building, deploying, and maintaining production-grade applications in cloud-native environments.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI-assisted workflows for rapid, high-quality code generation.
• A track record of prioritizing user impact over technical cleverness and holding yourself accountable to business metrics (conversion, retention, operational cost).
• Strong understanding of event-driven architectures and how core transactional systems feed analytical data engineering pipelines.
• Ability to work across the stack comfortably, fully owning a product or feature.
• Expertise in Frontend technologies: React.js, TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), and Expo (React Native).
• Some experience with Backend technologies: Laravel (PHP) is ideal, but not a necessity.
• Experience with Databases: PostgreSQL.
• Experience with Infrastructure: AWS.
• Exceptional communication skills in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.

Requirements

• Occasional travel for company onsites and project planning, typically 2-4 trips per year, but can vary as needed.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience working with financial technology platforms and payroll systems.
• Specific experience in lending, payments, BNPL, ACH, etc. is highly valued.

Benefits

• Massive impact: Empower millions of workers to access their wages instantly.
• Challenging, meaningful work: Solving hard fintech problems at scale.
• Autonomy & ownership: Engineers own features end-to-end and influence architecture and product decisions.
• Top-tier teammates: Work with elite engineers who are passionate about high-performance, scalable systems.
• Fast-moving culture: Prioritize execution, technical excellence, and customer impact.
• Growth opportunities: Lead projects, mentor others, and grow into a Staff to Principal Engineer.
• Flexible work & perks: Competitive salary, equity, unlimited PTO, conference stipends, and top-tier benefits.

Additional Details

• Location: Remote with occasional travel for company onsites or project planning.
• Compensation:
  • Senior Engineer I: Annual base salary of $124,000 - $134,000.
  • Senior Engineer II: Annual base salary of $137,000 - $147,000.
• Clair will only contact candidates from @getclair.com email addresses. We will never ask for payments or sensitive personal information during the hiring process.

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 [email protected].