Product Engineer (Software Engineer) at Clera

About the Role Join a product engineering team at a Series A fintech company building consumer financial tools. You will develop and improve features that help people manage cash flow, access earnings, and build credit. What You'll Do Build end-to-end product features, including domain models, business logic, and API integrations. Deliver product improvements through data-informed, incremental releases. Use SQL and analytics tools to evaluate product and system performance. Debug complex state machines in event-driven systems to support a seamless customer experience. Ship and own production implementations through CI/CD, responding to incidents as needed. What We're Looking For At least 3 years of experience building backend features end-to-end for production systems. Experience at an early-stage startup or similarly high-bar engineering environment, with meaningful consumer product experience. Proficiency designing and consuming REST APIs, including authentication, authorization, and rate limiting. Experience with event-driven architectures and message queues such as Kafka or Pub/Sub, and debugging complex state machines. Experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL, including data modeling and query optimization, plus SQL-based product or system analysis. Hands-on experience with CI/CD, version control, automated testing, and code review. Strong computer science fundamentals and experience with distributed systems. Experience with Go and Google Cloud Platform is a plus. Compensation & Benefits Base salary: $120,000 to $200,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available. Location On-site in San Francisco, California. Candidates based in Seattle or willing to relocate to San Francisco or Seattle may also be considered.