Software Development Engineer I
About The Position
CLEAR is hiring an early-career Software Engineer for its Digital Experience team. The role focuses on building and shipping full-stack features for high-traffic CLEAR websites used by millions of members to enroll, manage memberships, and book services. The engineer will help develop CLEAR's secure identity platform and work with experienced engineers to deliver reliable, scalable applications. The position involves owning technical work from discovery and design through implementation, deployment, rollout, and operational support. The engineer will collaborate with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Operations, contribute to architectural decisions, and help improve platform reliability, performance, security, maintainability, and developer experience. The technology stack overview is Java, React, and TypeScript. CLEAR describes its offices as bright, energetic, and open-concept, with conference rooms and casual coworking spaces. Compensation includes a stated range of $105,000–$125,000, representing the combined base salary, annual bonus incentive, and new-hire equity package, with eligibility for refresh equity grants. Actual compensation depends on factors including location, education, skills, experience, and performance.
Requirements
- 0–2 years of professional full-stack software engineering experience building production applications using technologies such as Python, React, and TypeScript.
- Strong technical fundamentals across distributed systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and modern software architecture.
- Experience building and operating cloud-native applications using AWS and technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Demonstrated history of owning complex, cross-functional projects and driving them from idea to production with a bias for action.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts and influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Comfort operating in ambiguous environments, making thoughtful tradeoffs, and independently driving work forward.
- Collaborative mindset and interest in improving engineering practices and building products with measurable customer and business impact.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and deploy scalable full-stack applications that power CLEAR's identity platform.
- Own projects end-to-end, from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, rollout, and operational support.
- Partner with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Operations to translate business problems into simple, scalable technical solutions.
- Improve system reliability, performance, testing, observability, and developer experience.
- Contribute to architectural decisions and improve platform scalability, security, and maintainability.
- Participate in code reviews, technical collaboration, and sharing engineering best practices.
Benefits
- Catered lunches every day and fully stocked kitchens.
- Stipends and reimbursement programs for well-being and learning and development.
- Comprehensive healthcare plans.
- Family-building benefits, including fertility and adoption/surrogacy support.
- Flexible time off.
- Annual wellness stipend.
- Free OneMedical memberships for employees and dependents.
- CLEAR Plus membership.
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
- Annual bonus incentive and new-hire equity package in Restricted Stock Units.
- Eligibility for refresh equity grants.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
