A DAY IN THE LIFE:

As a senior engineer on the Auth* (authentication and authorization) team at Clever, you’ll work on our product offerings centered around sign in and application access. This includes single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and device access. You will develop features with an eye for accessibility, reliability, and security to enhance Clever’s mission of providing simplified, secure access to digital learning.

• Collaborate with product management, design, and marketing teams to research, design, and code major new features and enhancements that will best engage, educate, and delight educators
• Develop and lead new features spanning fast and intuitive UIs, Go microservices, and REST APIs to simplify and secure user access to learning resources
• Mentor engineering teammates through collaboration and code reviews
• Be an important part of Clever’s ecosystem of engineering excellence as we strive to create both the best possible customer experiences and top quality internal architecture across all of our products and initiatives
• Understand and prioritize the Clever engineering culture - see our blog post on Defining Clever’s Engineering Culture
• Build a world-class platform. We take reliability seriously with 99.98%+ uptime for critical services
• Participate in team on-call rotation. Shifts are one full week every ~7 weeks. Primarily working during business hours to respond to customer requests, but may require off hours incident responses

We work across the full-stack to create products that are robust and delightful for students, educators, and developers to use. We write frontend code in Node.js, TypeScript, and React with Redux and use Go for backend services. We write device code for iOS and Windows. We also use MongoDB, Postgres, Dynamo, Docker, and many AWS services (ECS, Step Functions, etc).

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

• 4+ years of experience as a full-stack Software Engineer
  • Experience with full stack technologies like TypeScript, React, NodeJS, Go, REST APIs and micro services
  • Experience with AWS technologies including DynamoDB, ECS, Step Functions, and SQS
  • Experience with generating and automating unit and end-to-end tests
  • Git, continuous integration, and deployment tools
• Familiarity with security best practices for authentication and authorization, including user identity management, multi-factor authentication (MFA), and ensuring the secure handling of sensitive data
• Experience leading projects and collaborating with engineers, designers, and other stakeholders to create meaningful impact
• Experience with design and architecture of end-to-end systems to solve a variety of product and data needs
• Ability to perform in-depth analysis on complex problems across the stack in order to find root cause and opportunities to improve performance
• An appreciation of code simplicity, performance and maintainability
• The drive to learn and teach through collaboration and code reviews
• Commitment to equity and belonging: Clever believes that the classrooms we serve and our company’s halls should be spaces that are diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We seek opportunities and celebrate actions that further allow us to build diverse teams, include every voice, and create a safe space for everyone to bring their authentic selves into the workplace

CLEVER BENEFITS AND PERKS:

• A competitive salary
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• Top-notch healthcare, vision, and dental coverage for you and your family
• Best-in-class mental healthcare service that supports employees' mental and emotional wellness
• A generous personal development yearly budget which can be used for courses, conferences, trainings, books, and more
• A comprehensive Learning & Development program that enables employees to enhance their skills, knowledge, and functional expertise
• Annual company and team events to connect with fun, bright coworkers

SALARY TRANSPARENCY:

The range of our base salary cash compensation for this role for candidates living in the United States, besides NYC and San Francisco, CA, is between $136,000 - $190,000. For candidates living in NYC and San Francisco, CA is between $149,000 - $209,000. All final offers are determined using multiple factors including experience and level of expertise.