Senior Software Engineer

Clera; United States; Remote; USD 78,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare insurance

Generous paid time off

Job summary

Clera is seeking an experienced backend engineer to build and scale accounting and financial workflow systems for a growing fintech platform. You will own end-to-end accounting integration projects and deliver reliable, scalable services while collaborating with product, design, operations, and external partners.

The role emphasizes translating business problems into durable technical solutions, deep domain knowledge in fintech, and end-to-end project ownership in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5 to 10 or more years of experience building production backend systems, APIs, services, or distributed systems.
• Experience collaborating across technical and non-technical teams, including external partners.
• Background in fintech, accounting, payroll, payments, banking, or complex integrations is valuable.
• Experience with Python, Go, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, or GCP is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Own accounting integration projects from problem definition and design through launch and operation.
• Build reliable, scalable backend services for accounting and financial workflows and support expansion.
• Translate ambiguous problems into simple, durable technical solutions.
• Learn customers' accounting needs and apply context to product and engineering decisions.
• Partner with Product, Design, Operations, Compliance, and external providers on complex initiatives.
• Balance fast delivery with reliability for financial workflows and money movement.
• Raise engineering quality through communication, system design, code quality, and mentorship.

Skills

Backend systems

APIs

Distributed systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Fintech domain knowledge

Tools

Python

Go

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Job description

About the Role

Join a fintech engineering team building and scaling financial products and backend platform capabilities. You will help deliver reliable accounting and financial workflows that support how businesses manage money.

What You'll Do

• Own accounting integration projects from problem definition and technical design through launch, iteration, and ongoing operation.

• Build reliable, scalable backend services for accounting and financial workflows, and support expansion into adjacent product areas.

• Translate ambiguous product and business problems into simple, durable technical solutions.

• Learn customers' accounting and financial operations needs and apply that context to product and engineering decisions.

• Partner with Product, Design, Operations, Compliance, and external providers on complex initiatives.

• Balance fast delivery with the reliability required for financial workflows and money movement.

• Raise engineering quality through clear communication, system design, code quality, and mentorship.

What We're Looking For

• 5 to 10 or more years of experience building production backend systems, APIs, services, or distributed systems.

• Strong product judgment, customer curiosity, and comfort working through ambiguity in fast-paced, high-growth environments.

• Experience collaborating across technical and non-technical teams, including external partners.

• Background in fintech, accounting, payroll, payments, banking, compliance-heavy products, or complex third-party integrations is valuable.

• Experience with Python, Go, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, or GCP is helpful, but an exact match is not required.

• End-to-end project ownership is valuable, as is deep expertise in complex systems.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is €70,000 to €95,000 annually. Benefits include private healthcare insurance for you and your family and generous paid time off.

Location

Remote within the European Union.