Backend Engineer (Entry Level) (Remote)

Job Summary:

Clerkie is a fintech startup on a mission to democratize financial wellness using the power of artificial intelligence. As a Backend Engineer, you'll be responsible for owning and maintaining substantial portions of the backend infrastructure, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability as the company grows.

Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining core infrastructure
• Provide backend expertise to facilitate feature development and improve core platform reliability, performance, and scalability
• Expand our ecosystem of metrics and alerts to improve the user experience
• Work with other members/teams at Clerkie to provide a comprehensive, easy, and reliable user experience

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science (CS) or a similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• 2+ years of software development experience
• Standalone self-starter able to manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
• Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills
• Good command of object-oriented programming best practices
• Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English

Preferred:

• 4+ years of experience in server-side development
• Experience building server-side applications in Node.js
• Experience with NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB)
• AWS and DevOps experience (e.g., using EC2 / S3 / ELB / etc.)
• Experience in FinTech or other data heavy applications (not required)

Company:

Clerkie is an AI financial planner that provides financial knowledge, personalized answers, and actionable plans. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a team of 11-50 employees. The company is currently Early Stage.