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Clera

Backend Engineer

remote (Remote)$131k–$164kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Join a fintech company building trust infrastructure as a backend engineer on a senior, experienced team. You'll design scalable APIs and systems that transform complex compliance workflows into fast, reliable experiences in a regulated environment.

What you'll do

  • Design and build clean, testable backend systems and APIs for high-trust, regulated environments
  • Architect scalable infrastructure capable of handling high-volume requirements
  • Champion testing, quality, and long-term maintainability across projects
  • Solve complex product challenges by analyzing user needs and system behavior
  • Shape engineering practices and technical culture through collaboration and leadership

What they're looking for

  • Backend engineering (5–7+ years production experience)
  • Node.js/TypeScript or Python, Go, Java
  • Scalable API and distributed system design
  • Relational databases (Postgres or MySQL)
  • Message queues or event-driven architectures (RabbitMQ, Kafka)
  • Containerization and cloud deployment (Kubernetes, AWS)
  • Systems thinking and architectural reasoning
  • Fintech, payments, or identity domain experience

Benefits

  • Fully remote with European timezone flexibility
  • Senior, talent-dense engineering team
  • Company-wide in-person offsites approximately every six weeks
  • Opportunity to shape technical culture and practices
  • Work on high-trust, regulated infrastructure
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Clera

Clera builds an agentic operating system that automates complex workflows and processes through AI agents, with a platform designed to simplify distributed infrastructure management for developers. The company is hiring Founding Engineers, Customer Engineers, and Product Engineers to develop both backend systems and user-facing interfaces across their AI automation products.

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Likely interview questions

  • Can you walk us through a complex backend system you designed and the architectural decisions that made it scalable?
  • Tell us about a time you championed testing or quality practices that improved long-term maintainability in a project.
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