Software Engineer, Fraud Detection & Prevention

Employment Type: Full-Time Location Type: Remote Salary: Competitive

About Clerk

Clerk is on a mission to solve user management once and for all. We are a globally distributed team dedicated to providing best-in-class developer experience, with obsessive attention to every detail. Today, we provide developers with full-stack React components and hooks like <SignUp/>, <SignIn/>, <UserProfile/>, useUser, and useOrganization. These APIs allow developers to build hard-to-get-right user and organization management flows. We believe that a component is worth a thousand APIs.

About the Role

Clerk is looking for product-minded Software Engineers to help us bring world-class Fraud detection and prevention to our customers. This full-stack role will have you work on nimble teams and connect directly with customers to define and execute functionality that developers love and support builders launching and growing their businesses.

What You'll Do

We’re a small but growing team with big ambitions. This means you’ll have responsibility far beyond closing out pre-sliced tickets. We’re looking for people that are comfortable working across the stack to solve product problems for real users.

We will expect you to:

• Collaborate with customers and teammates: Be part of a world-class product delivery team that cares deeply about customer needs and the value of constant iteration. We’re fully remote, which means you’ll need to practice good communication habits to keep things moving.
• Execute: Clerk values engineers who execute. That means approaching work iteratively and reducing the time between feedback cycles.
• Thrive in a dynamic environment: Clerk is not well suited for engineers who expect every task to be a series of predefined steps. We believe the best approach is to work through our customer’s problems in the trenches and not merely think through them from the sidelines.
• Be Customer 0: Clerk is built on top of Clerk. That means the work you do to solve our internal projects likely will also become functionality that we release to customers as well. This is one of the most unique and exciting parts of Clerk.
• Embrace a culture of craft: Focus on engineering quality. We want our product to be best-in-class, and so we need our team to write maintainable, performant, and well-structured code.

Who You Are

• You’re a backend or full-stack expert who is happy in the backend but also comfortable rolling up your sleeves in JavaScript/TypeScript land if it’s needed. Moreover, you care less about the tools you use and more about solving real customer pain-points.
• You write clean, idiomatic Go code and ideally also know your way around modern frontend stacks (even if not a frontend expert).
• You love crafting developer tools that are easy, reliable, and even fun to use.
• Event-driven architectures, Pub/Sub patterns, and scaling challenges are familiar territory.
• You have experience with handling, sifting, and analyzing large sets of data (Bonus points for experience with Clickhouse).
• You set a high bar for code quality, system design, and performance — and you’re not afraid to fight for it.
• You’re passionate about building for other engineers and obsess over making their experience better.
• You believe in solving real customer problems, even if it means making tradeoffs behind the scenes.
• You love working on products you use yourself — because you know that’s how magic happens.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary: We want you to know that we value the skills and experience you bring to the table. We go out of our way to make sure that you feel fairly compensated.
• Equity Ownership: At Clerk, we believe in shared success. That's why we offer a stock option plan so that everyone can benefit from the growth and prosperity of the company.
• Work Gear: Set up your ideal home office with the gear of your choice. At Clerk, we want to ensure that you have everything you need to perform at your best.
• Flexible Vacation Policy: We believe in work-life balance and trust you to take the time off you need.