Staff Backend Software Engineer

Fiserv•Sunnyvale, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

A successful Staff Backend Software Engineer at Clover drives the development of real-time merchant insights that power everyday decisions for small businesses. They lead with technical rigor, support their team’s growth, and deliver data-backed products that are as scalable as they are impactful. The Merchant Insights Engineering team at Clover builds scalable, full stack applications that deliver data-driven intelligence directly to our merchants—helping them better understand their business operations. This cross-functional team touches everything from data pipelines to web and mobile interfaces, working across Clover’s ecosystem of hardware and software.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
6+ years in software engineering
2+ years in a technical leadership role
Proficiency in Java, Python, or C++
Hands-on experience with SQL and data warehousing

Nice To Haves

Microservices (Spring Boot)
MySQL, Snowflake
Writing performant SQL and JDBC queries
Kubernetes and Docker
Google Cloud Platform
Python scripting
Data analysis or mathematics background

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor a team of 6–8 engineers across data, server, web, and Android technologies
Set the roadmap and strategy for Clover’s merchant-facing insights and analytics platform
Partner with Product, Design, Data Engineering, and Data Science to deliver near real-time insights at scale
Drive engineering excellence through coaching, feedback, process improvement, and system design
Guide end-to-end project execution—ensuring delivery, quality, and cross-team coordination
Own incident response and blameless postmortems for the team’s products