Clearco is the world’s largest e-commerce investor. Our equity-free capital products intend to help businesses scale while maintaining 100% ownership and control. Clearco is growing and we’ve already been able to fund 5500+ businesses in 7 countries. Clearco has funded 25x more female founders than traditional Venture Capital and is removing barriers to access capital for underserved groups. The Clearco vision is simple: remove the obstacles between brilliant ideas and brilliant businesses.

The role of the Data Engineer is to collaborate on backend architecture and data pipelines that enable great data products and supporting processes. Your responsibilities will be a superset of a typical Data Engineer, as there are often experiments and uncertainty that require creative solutioning at the earliest stages.  

Application deadline: ongoing

Compensation + Benefits:

Competitive Salary + Stock Options + Flexible PTO + Mental Health Support (Inkblot & EAP) + Medical + Dental/Vision + Work From Home Stipend + Digital Nomad Program + Remote-first work environment + Toronto office available (but not necessary) + External Learning & Professional Development!

Responsibilities: 

• You will contribute to the development of data products end to end, from design and architecture to deployment and maintenance
• You will work closely and learning from every member of the Data Science and MLOps teams, you will create high value data products
• You will work closely with all functions of Clearco, ranging from core Engineering team to the marketing team
• You will be in constant communication with the team to understand what features of the platform need to be built out, and solve bug fixes when necessary
• You will scope out business needs and action them with speed and accuracy and then execute on it yourself

What we look for:

• Desire to help founders. We take a strong founder first stance on this team.
• Be self sufficient when it comes to execution. Figure out how to solve problems and make things happen, not waiting for help or permission.
• On this team, we maximize learning. You will fail if you're not learning fast enough.
• Comfort working in a high growth, constantly changing environment.
• Heavy bias towards action. Ability to solve problems end-to-end on their own. You will implement ideas and experiments on your own with minimal support.
• Have experience working in a senior software engineering role, you are an expert when it comes to coding and you’re ready to roll up your sleeves to get the job done! 
• Have a strong business sense, you can foresee potential issues and solve them quickly
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams.
• Strong interest in building businesses, ecommerce, fintech.

Technical Requirements:

• Ideally, you have worked on at least one stack in your career in either past co-op, hobby project or small professional setting for 4 to 12 months.  
• Experience working on remote teams
• Comfortable working in server and database environments that are changing constantly
• Demonstrated experience with using third party solutions and external APIs to supercharge existing features
• Comfortable in a fast pace, changing roadmap team building the plane after jumping off the cliff
• Comfortable with relational databases and schemas involving time-series
• Basic understanding of technologies such as Airflow, Python, SQL, Snowflake, Kubernetes
• Working knowledge or interest in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or similar (AWS, Azure)

Clearco is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate our inclusive work environment and welcome members of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply. At Clearco, we’re committed to developing and upholding an inclusive, transparent, and comfortable environment for all. We create a space where every voice, perspective, and idea is heard and acknowledged. We embrace differences, and know that our diverse team is our strength and what drives our innovation. 

Clearco is committed to developing a barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. If you require any accommodation, please let us know and we’ll work with you to meet your accessibility needs.