Frontend Engineer, Clerk
Product
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Identity tool for React applications
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Identity tool for React applications
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity
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
- We’re looking for people that are comfortable working across the stack to solve product problems for real users
- You’re excited by the challenges that come with owning the “back of the frontend” for the Clerk Dashboard
- You should be excited by the technical challenges and architectural patterns that enable best-in-class Web Applications
- You’re a Typescript/Javascript expert and opinionated around what makes a high-quality Developer Experience
- You write clean, idiomatic code and know your way around the modern frontend stacks
- You’re comfortable establishing high quality patterns that other developers adhere to and you fight to maintain those high standards as the product grows in maturity
- You’re passionate about Web App performance (think Web Vitals but also human-centered performance topics like optimistic UI)
- You understand what it takes to build a SaaS product
- You set a high bar for code quality, system design, and performance — and you’re not afraid to fight for it
- 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
- We’re a small but growing team, with big ambitions. This means you’ll have responsibility far beyond closing out pre-sliced tickets
- While we’re hiring for a role that is focused on our Dashboard product, you’ll come to find that our Dashboard is a crucial way for Clerk to dogfood our own product; and therefore is also critical for generating product feedback and driving the direction of Clerk as a business
- 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
- Care about frontend architecture - you’ll work hand-in-glove with multiple teams doing feature development
- You’ll need to help us maintain the architecture that they are building on
- 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
- Go deep - We want Clerk to be the easiest way for app builder’s to release and operate their businesses
- To do this, we need to build the best DX on the market. This means developing deep empathy for app builder’s and knowing the full depth of our customer’s pain points
- 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 7 rounds)
Oct 2025
$50m
SERIES C
Jan 2024
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $109m
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.
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