Product Engineer, Clerk
+ Stock option plan
Identity tool for React applications
Be an early applicant
Identity tool for React applications
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock option plan
101-200 employees
Company mission
To solve user management so developers can stop re-inventing the wheel and focus on their core business.
Role
Who you are
- You’re a backend or full-stack expert who’s comfortable rolling up your sleeves in JavaScript / TypeScript land when it’s needed. More over, you care less about the tools you use and more about solving real customer pain-points
- You write clean, idiomatic Go code and ideally also know your way around modern frontend stacks (even if not a frontend expert)
- You love crafting developer tools that are easy, reliable, and even fun to use
- Event-driven architectures, Pub/Sub patterns, and scaling challenges are familiar territory
- You set a high bar for code quality, system design, and performance — and you’re not afraid to fight for it
- You’re passionate about building for other engineers and obsess over making their experience better
- You believe in solving real customer problems, even if it means making tradeoffs behind the scenes
- You love working on products you use yourself — because you know that’s how magic happens
What the job involves
- Clerk is looking for product-minded Software Engineers to help us bring new functionality to the Clerk platform. This full-stack role will have you work on nimble teams and connect directly with customers to define and execute functionality that developers love and support builders launching and growing their businesses
- We’re a small but growing team with big ambitions. This means you’ll have responsibility far beyond closing out pre-sliced tickets. We’re looking for people that are comfortable working across the stack to solve product problems for real users
- Collaborate with customers and teammates - be part of a world-class product delivery team that cares deeply about customer needs and the value of constant iteration. We’re fully remote, which means you’ll need to practice good communication habits to keep things moving
- Execute - Clerk values engineers who execute. That means approaching work iteratively and reducing the time between feedback cycles
- Thrive in a dynamic environment - Clerk is not well suited for engineers who expect every task to be a series of predefined steps. We believe the best approach is to -work- through our customer’s problems in the trenches and not merely -think- through them from the sidelines
- Be Customer 0 - Clerk is built on top of Clerk. That means the work you do to solve our internal projects likely will also become functionality that we release to customers as well. This is one of the most unique and exciting parts of Clerk
- Embrace a culture of craft by focusing on engineering quality. We want our product to be best-in-class, and so we need our team to write maintainable, performant, and well-structured code
Our take
Authentication is only part of the story when it comes to user management. Developers using API tools also face the complex UI and management issues of additional features like user sign-up, sign-in, and session management, to name a few. Clerk was founded to make this simpler, reducing hours of work to minutes using pre-built React components.
Clerk stands out in a market dominated by the likes of Auth0 and OneSpan with its focus on React rather than API. This taps into a growing number of developers working with Jamstack rather than trying to wrestle customers away from market incumbents - a smart move which has seen its userbase swell by five times, growing to over a million developers.
This rapid growth has attracted investors, and Clerk closed a Series B round in 2024. This funding is being used to expand the company's services into authorisation - determining a user's permissions as opposed to simply identifying them. As account security and management will continue to be a major focus for developers going forward, Clerk is well positioned to grow into a major player in this space, especially as it continues to expand its product range.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2024
$30m
SERIES B
Mar 2023
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $59m
Company benefits
- Stock option plan. We're all in this together!
- Gear of your choice for your home office
- Unlimited vacation policy - 25 days recommended per year plus national holidays in your country of residence. Take time when you need it
- Be part of a diverse, and exceptional team to build an impactful product for the modern web
Company HQ
Design District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Colin Sidoti
(Lead Clerk & Co-Founder)Previously a web developer with We-Care.com, who then moved into an independent consulting role before co-founding and serving as CTO at Harbor Inc.
Braden Sidoti
(CTO & Co-Founder)Has held various engineering and developer roles, including at Fuzz Productions, hostess.fm, and Inspirato.
Share this job