# Principal Software Engineer \(Backend\) - Company: [Clearvector]() - Location: Remote - Remote: Yes - Team: Product and Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Posted: May 12, 2025 ## Job description We're an early-stage company building innovative software solutions with a commitment to shipping rock-solid, reliable, safe software. We’re searching for someone who loves writing code that helps protect customers and frustrates the adversary. You’ve written serious software in a careful way, and you love scalable systems built right with small teams. Read more about us and our mission [here](https://www.clearvector.com/about-us). **Responsibilities** * Design, architect, and develop features and improvements in a secure, well-tested, and performant way * Maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment * Work closely with company leadership to guide our entry into the market * Interact with potential customers and the community to help drive adoption * Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices * Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review and other cultural practices * Regularly demonstrate progress during our weekly internal demos **Top candidates for this role will have:** * Experience designing and shipping commercially available software products at scale that customers love * Experience building and shipping self-service B2B SaaS products at scale * Expert knowledge of at least one major systems programming language * Ability to learn Typescript or Rust * Experience shipping serverless software on AWS or distributed systems experience * Experience working at a fast-growing startup * Be comfortable working remotely, asynchronously, and independently * Strong time management habits and the ability to have a quiet working environment * Fluency in technology such as GitHub, AWS, Auth0, TypeScript, Rust, GitHub Copilot and Claude * At least 12 years of experience * Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization **Additional notes** * As a remote first company, we are looking to hire anywhere in the United States. * We hire people authorized to work in the United States. We do not sponsor immigration visas. * Ability to travel for in-person company planning and events. ## Apply [Apply on Clearvector]() Canonical job page: