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.