Principal Software Engineer (Backend)
ClearVector, Remote
What you will do
- 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.
About ClearVector
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.
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