Software Development Engineer III

CLEAR - Corporate•New York, NY

21h•$220,000 - $290,000•Onsite

About The Position

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We're looking for Senior Fullstack Software Engineers to help build the next generation of CLEAR's mission and vision. Beyond verifying identity, we're creating a secure, networked digital identity that enables seamless experiences across travel, enterprise, healthcare, financial services, and beyond. As a Senior Software Engineer III, you'll own complex technical problems from design through deployment, partnering closely with Product, Design, Security, and Operations to deliver reliable, scalable solutions. We're looking for engineers with a strong builder mindset who thrive in ambiguity, take ownership, and enjoy turning ideas into production systems. Level and team matching (open roles across the three pillars that make up Technology at CLEAR: Core Identity, CLEAR1, and CLEAR Travel) will occur towards the end of our interview process. Tech stack overview: A brief highlight of our tech stack: Java / Kafka / Postgres AWS cloud

Requirements

6+ years of backend software development experience in Java
Working with cloud-based application development, and being fluent in at least a few of:
Cloud service providers like AWS
Containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
Collaboration, integration, and deployment tools like Github, Argo, and Jenkins
Articulating technical concepts to a mixed audience of technical and non-technical stakeholders
Collaborating and mentoring less experienced members of the team
Comfort with ambiguity
Curiosity about technology, belief in constant learning, and athe bility to be autonomous to figure out what's important

Responsibilities

Advance our capabilities across a wide array of industries and domains and gain hands-on experience with privacy, security, data modeling and architecture
Develop and deliver code across the full stack, driving engineering excellence by defining to best practices in testing, documentation and observability
Partner with product and other stakeholders to uncover requirements, to innovate, and to solve complex problems
Have a strong sense of ownership, responsible for architectural decision-making and striving for continuous improvement in technology and processes at CLEAR