About this opportunity
deCircle lists this Clerq - Senior Software Engineer opportunity in new york, New York. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Clerq is a Series A financial technology startup based in New York City. The company’s next generation payments platform delivers a seamless checkout experience for high-ticket transactions.
Leveraging modern bank rails, the platform offers the conversion and UX benefits of cards with risk and money movement infrastructure purpose-built for large purchases. Clerq replaces outdated manual payment methods like cash, checks and wires and expensive card surcharges with a smooth, integrated solution that helps merchants convert more customers without sacrificing margins.
Clerq started with the $1T+ U.S. auto vertical, where it's already powering payments for several of the most recognized brands in the industry. With proven traction, the company has expanded into high-growth adjacencies including powersports, home & office and private travel.
About the role
Own and ship core components of our payments platform including:
core money movement and payments operations functions
integrations with third-party business systems
performance tuning and scaling
reporting and compliance functionality
Design robust and maintainable system architectures
Contribute to the design of customer-facing APIs
Own the delivery of new features from end-to-end
Iterate on internal infrastructure and developer experience such as observability
Maintain high standards of engineering excellence and establish/iterate on best practices throughout the team
Help interview, onboard, and mentor new hires as the team grows
Location: NYC (Flatiron)
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our early engineering team. The ideal candidate is eager to join an early stage company with strong product-market fit and excited to build a robust platform capable of powering billions of dollars of payment volume. As an early engineering team member, you will be critical to the development of Clerq's core platform and help support the business through its hyper growth phase. You will collaborate closely with the CTO and the rest of the team, owning key projects from inception through implementation. Our ideal candidate is someone who is excited by our mission and the opportunity to continually take on more responsibility as the company scales.
Qualifications
5+ years of software engineering experience (comfort with Python/Django strongly preferred)
Previous (early stage) startup experience is a plus
Ability to write and debug production-quality backend code
Ability to evaluate the tradeoffs between speed and robustness when designing systems
Strong and proactive communication skills
Ability to articulate customer impact of technical
Preferred but not required:
Experience with AWS services, PostgreSQL, Redis
Prior experience or demonstrated interest in payments and/or fintech
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Worksite address
new york, NY, 10261, US
Who can apply
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