Principal Software Engineer (Backend)

We're an early-stage company building innovative software solutions with a commitment to shipping rock-solid, reliable, safe software. We’re searching for someone who loves writing code that helps protect customers and frustrates the adversary. You’ve written serious software in a careful way, and you love scalable systems built right with small teams. Read more about us and our mission here https://www.clearvector.com/about-us.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect, and develop features and improvements in a secure, well-tested, and performant way

• Maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment

• Work closely with company leadership to guide our entry into the market

• Interact with potential customers and the community to help drive adoption

• Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices

• Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review and other cultural practices

• Regularly demonstrate progress during our weekly internal demos

Top candidates for this role will have:

• Experience designing and shipping commercially available software products at scale that customers love

• Experience building and shipping self-service B2B SaaS products at scale

• Expert knowledge of at least one major systems programming language

• Ability to learn Typescript or Rust

• Experience shipping serverless software on AWS or distributed systems experience

• Experience working at a fast-growing startup

• Be comfortable working remotely, asynchronously, and independently

• Strong time management habits and the ability to have a quiet working environment

• Fluency in technology such as GitHub, AWS, Auth0, TypeScript, Rust, GitHub Copilot and Claude

• At least 12 years of experience

• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization

Additional notes

• As a remote first company, we are looking to hire anywhere in the United States.

• We hire people authorized to work in the United States. We do not sponsor immigration visas.

• Ability to travel for in-person company planning and events.