Senior Software Engineer

About Clerq

Clerq is a Series A financial technology startup (Funding news) 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 Clerq replaces outdated manual payment methods like cash, checks and wires and expensive card surcharges with a smooth, integrated solution that helps merchants convert more customers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

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.

Key Responsibilities

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

Requirements

4+ years of backend-leaning software engineering experience

Experience with Python is must have

Bonus Skills

* Experience with Django

* Ability to articulate customer impact of technical

* Experience with AWS services, PostgreSQL, Redis

* Prior fintech/payments is a plus, but not required. High learning velocity and bias for action matter more.

* Experience building, maintaining, and debugging backend systems with complex business requirements-especially for payment/money movement, edge cases, and failure handling.

* Excitement to help scale a generational platform for high-ticket payments and modernize an industry.