Clera

Backend Engineer

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17 hours ago
Remote, EMEASenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and build clean, efficient, testable backend systems.
  • Architect scalable APIs and infrastructure for high-trust, regulated environments.
  • Solve complex product challenges by considering user needs and system behavior.
  • Apply strong testing, quality, and long-term maintainability practices.
  • Shape engineering practices and technical culture through collaboration and hands-on leadership.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of backend engineering experience building production APIs, distributed services, or backend systems.
  • Strong systems thinking and the ability to reason about large-scale architectural problems.
  • Experience in high-trust or regulated domains such as fintech, payments, or identity.
  • Production experience with relational databases such as Postgres.
  • Experience with message queues or event-driven architectures such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.
  • Experience deploying and managing applications in containerized or cloud environments such as Kubernetes or AWS.
  • Track record of writing automated tests and maintaining testable codebases.
  • Familiarity with Node.js, TypeScript, Express, and Event Sourcing is preferred but not required.
  • Background at a high-caliber fintech, payments, or high-growth technology company is preferred.
  • Clear communication, collaboration, comfort with ambiguity, curiosity, ambition, and kindness.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work for candidates in European time zones.
  • European time zone availability is required.
  • The team meets in person every six weeks for a company-wide gathering.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.
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