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Clera

Product Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States

Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Work
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Level
Mid level
Function
Engineering
Pay
$120K – $200K a year (read from the ad)
Posted
5 days ago

Pay and the market here

The top of this role’s range, $200K a year, is about the median of $206K for mid level engineering jobs in San Francisco (middle half $175K – $265K, 477 jobs that state pay).

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About the role

About the Role

Join a consumer fintech product and engineering team building tools that help people manage cash flow and build credit. You will own backend features from design through production, contributing to reliable and accessible financial products.

What You'll Do

  • Build product features end to end, including domain models, business logic, and API integrations.
  • Deliver and iterate on product milestones through data-informed, incremental releases.
  • Use SQL and analytics tools to assess product and system performance.
  • Debug complex state machines in event-driven systems to support a seamless user experience.
  • Ship through CI/CD, own implementations in production, and respond to incidents as needed.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 3 years of experience building backend features end to end for production systems.
  • 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, including debugging complex workflows.
  • Experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL, data modeling, query optimization, and SQL-based analytics.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD, version control, automated testing, and code review.
  • Experience building consumer-facing products and working in an early-stage startup or similarly high-velocity environment.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals and experience with distributed systems.
  • Go and GCP experience are useful.

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.

Source

Posted by Clera on their own hiring page, jobs.ashbyhq.com. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 11 Nov 2026 04:38 UTC; the original is the reference.

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