Senior Full-Stack Engineer — Secure Identity Platform

CLEAR - Field; New York (NY); On-site; USD 225,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Catered lunches

Fully stocked kitchens

Well-being stipends

401(k) employer match

Career development

Job summary

CLEAR, based in New York City, is seeking a Senior Fullstack Software Engineer to own end-to-end development of our identity platform. You’ll collaborate across Product, Design, Security, and Operations to deliver reliable, scalable solutions while mentoring teammates and driving architectural excellence.

You will work with Python, React, and TypeScript to build cloud-native applications, improve observability, and ship production-ready features.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional full-stack software engineering experience.
• Strong technical fundamentals across distributed systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and modern software architecture.
• Experience building and operating cloud-native applications using AWS and technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Demonstrated history of owning complex, cross-functional projects and driving them from idea to production with a bias for action.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts and influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments, making thoughtful tradeoffs, and independently driving work forward.
• A collaborative mindset with a passion for mentoring others, continuously improving engineering practices, and building products that deliver measurable customer and business impact.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and deploy scalable full-stack applications that power CLEAR’s identity platform.
• Own projects end-to-end from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, rollout, and operational support.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Operations to translate business problems into simple, scalable technical solutions.
• Drive engineering excellence by improving system reliability, performance, testing, observability, and developer experience.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and continuously improve the scalability, security, and maintainability of our platform.
• Mentor teammates through thoughtful code reviews, technical collaboration, and sharing engineering best practices.

Skills

Python

React

TypeScript

Distributed systems

APIs

Cloud infrastructure

CI/CD

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

GitHub

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

CLEAR, based in New York City, is seeking a Senior Fullstack Software Engineer to own end-to-end development of our identity platform. You’ll collaborate across Product, Design, Security, and Operations to deliver reliable, scalable solutions while mentoring teammates and driving architectural excellence.

You will work with Python, React, and TypeScript to build cloud-native applications, improve observability, and ship production-ready features.