Clerq - Senior Software Engineer

Clerq is a Series A financial technology startup based in New York City. The company’s next generation payments platform delivers a seamless checkout experience for high-ticket transactions.

Leveraging modern bank rails, the platform offers the conversion and UX benefits of cards with risk and money movement infrastructure purpose-built for large purchases. Clerq replaces outdated manual payment methods like cash, checks and wires and expensive card surcharges with a smooth, integrated solution that helps merchants convert more customers without sacrificing margins.

Clerq started with the $1T+ U.S. auto vertical, where it's already powering payments for several of the most recognized brands in the industry. With proven traction, the company has expanded into high-growth adjacencies including powersports, home & office and private travel.

About the role

• Own and ship core components of our payments platform including:
• core money movement and payments operations functions
• integrations with third-party business systems
• performance tuning and scaling
• reporting and compliance functionality
• Design robust and maintainable system architectures
• Contribute to the design of customer-facing APIs
• Own the delivery of new features from end-to-end
• Iterate on internal infrastructure and developer experience such as observability
• Maintain high standards of engineering excellence and establish/iterate on best practices throughout the team
• Help interview, onboard, and mentor new hires as the team grows
• Location: NYC (Flatiron)