Senior Engineer (Core Products)

• 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: someone who takes full ownership of the feature lifecycle, obsessively measures post-launch business outcomes, and 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
• We operate at the intersection of fintech, embedded finance, and real-time payroll systems—building products that handle millions of transactions with sub-second performance. Your work will directly enable millions of hourly workers to access financial freedom
• 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

Benefits

• 100% Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage, with option to extend to your family
• Fully-paid parental leave
• Company-sponsored 401k, HSA, and FSA
• Unlimited vacation
• Work from home setup allowance
• Access to your earnings every day on Clair
• Company-sponsored short-term and long-term disability insurance- Experience working with PostgreSQL databases
• Expertise with React.js, TypeScript, JavaScript (ES6+), and Expo (React Native) for frontend development
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI-assisted workflows for rapid, high-quality code generation
• If you are a problem solver who loves technical challenges, is passionate about performance optimization, security, and scalable architecture, and wants to influence key product decisions, you’ll love working with us
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts clearly both in calls and in writing
• A track record of prioritizing user impact over technical cleverness and holding yourself accountable to business metrics (conversion, retention, operational cost)
• Experience with AWS infrastructure
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment
• Some experience with Laravel (PHP) backend development, or demonstrable expertise building performant backend systems at scale
• Ability to work across the stack comfortably, fully owning a product or feature
• Deep experience building, deploying, and maintaining production-grade applications in cloud-native environments
• Strong understanding of event-driven architectures and how core transactional systems feed analytical data engineering pipelines
• Specific experience in lending, payments, BNPL, ACH, etc
• Experience working with financial technology platforms and payroll systems