Back End Platform Engineer

Clara is a new kind of lender that harnesses the efficiency of technology and the power of data in entirely new ways. By streamlining and customizing the lending process, we strive to give everyone greater confidence over the outcome.

As a Back End Platform Engineer at Clara you will draw on your experience solving complex technical challenges around extensibility, security, reliability. You'll also confront the broad range of problems around personal finance technology. Those two domains require people who aren’t just great programmers. We're looking for people who also have an interest in the ins-and-out of inefficient real-world business processes, the desire to build creative solutions to those problems, and a need to deliver best-in-class technology that optimizes archaic systems.

* Build a reliable, performant, extensible platform for processing mortgages to analyze, orchestrate and automate a manual, slow, and error-prone process. * Create the abstractions and systems that will support the all the other technologists at the company - from front end engineers and designers to data scientists. * Own the entire engineering process from ideation and requirements to shipping to production. * Bring an engineering approach to our product. Teach the mortgage industry the value of modularization, reusable components, separation of concerns, and the Law of Demeter. Ok maybe not the last one. * Learn, discover and grow. Become the best version of yourself and do the best work of your career. * Improve everything you touch: Kill dead code, invent better tools, engender better coding practices.

* Able to think in a structured, organized, and conceptual way - you can tell what one of those is, and can explain and taxonimize concepts * Unafraid of ambiguity and can navigate uncertain or open ended problems and circumstances * Know CS fundamentals, including algorithms and data structures - most importantly, know when it is and isn’t important to worry about them * Deep knowledge of some stack, ideally both a popular statically typed and a popular dynamically typed language. (Our stack is primarily Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Scala, living on AWS) * Love building systems - complex pieces of technology that work together to solve something * Experience with infrastructural, foundational technology - you know what a message bus is (and isn’t!) used for, you know how to manage, instrument and debug complex systems at scale * Experience with modelling complex business domain - near prescience for knowing where change will come from and building for it * Get stuff done - don’t waste time quibbling over trivialities * Ideally, an MSc in CompSci or similar engineering background. Of course, talented developers come from all different backgrounds, so we’re interested in hearing your unique story.