Principal Software Engineer (Backend)

About the role

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.

See the posting on Clearvector's site