Senior Backend Developer

The Role

Clearstory is on the lookout for a dynamic Senior Back-End Engineer to play a pivotal role in advancing our mission of transforming the construction industry. In this role, you’ll be at the forefront of expanding our integrations with industry-leading financial solutions and driving the growth of our open API.

As we continue our rapid expansion, you'll be instrumental in enhancing our existing integrations with industry giants like Procore, CMiC, Autodesk, HCSS, Vista, and more, while also spearheading the development of new, out-of-the-box integrations. This role is perfect for someone passionate about growth, eager to make a significant impact in a real-world industry, and excited to be part of a fast-growing tech company that our customers love.

You'll report to our Integrations Team Lead but will also work closely with our CTO, Head of Integrations and Partnerships, and have direct collaboration with our integration partners and customers. If you're ready to scale our rocketship and be a key player in our journey, we'd love to hear from you!

What you’ll be doing

• Work closely with our Product Development team members to define, create and maintain our new API while supporting existing integrations with our partners and customers.
• Develop comprehensive documentation to make it incredibly easy for partners and customers to leverage our API.
• Optimize API performance and reliability to handle high volumes of data transactions and ensure minimal downtime.
• Implement authentication and authorization mechanisms to secure API access and protect sensitive data.
• Work seamlessly with Clearstory’s integration partners to solve problems and identify opportunities for better performance.

Strategic initiatives you will be contributing to

• Have an immediate impact on company growth but helping us accelerate our product roadmap by integrating with industry leading ERP and project financial solutions. We know exactly what we need to build we just need to execute!
• Enhancing our existing integrations, for instance with Procore, PlanGrid and CMiC, to provide more data and features for our customers. Building net new integrations with other leading financial products in our industry.
• Creating the next generation of our publicly available API that will be used by customers and industry partners to integrate with Clearstory

Requirements

As a great fit for this role you will have...

• 5+ years of software development experience developing external APIs used by customers and partners, preferably in a startup environment
• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience with Golang
• Proven track record delivering tuned SQL queries and optimized data store use
• Experience breaking down complex problems and working out clever solutions in a team
• Extensive experience conducting peer code reviews
• Experience writing test cases (integration/unit) for code and extensively testing your work

In addition to that, we want to talk if you have...

• Node.js (Typescript) experience
• Pub/sub experience
• Familiarity with ETL pipelines
• Familiarity with SDLC concepts and working in an environment that meets SOC 2 Type II requirements, GDPR, CCPA, etc.
• FinTech or ConTech experience
• Previous experience in the commercial construction industry either in-the-field or on the software side

About You

We want you to be a part of the Clearstory success story so as you engage with us and our team members, it would be helpful for you to understand some of the core characteristics of our team - hopefully, many of these resonate with you!  

• Embody our core values
• Be Curious
• Customer Obsession
• Keep It Simple
• Raise the bar

• Passion and enthusiasm for your work and the Company
• Loves to take the initiative

• An upbeat, positive, and good-to-be-around attitude.
• Sense of humor.
• Is a “doer” with a hands-on approach
• Very high energy.
• Commitment to excellence.
• Operationally focused - thinking about the entire business and not just your role.
• Bright, quick, articulate, able to influence without direct authority, excellent presentation and interpersonal skills, and able to adapt to different outside constituencies.
• Ability to influence peers, operational managers, and executive team.
• People willingly seek out your advice in the planning phase of decisions.
• Strong entrepreneurial nature and approach.
• You foster trust and accessibility.
• Strong prioritization skills.
• Aggressive drive with a can-do attitude.
• Ability to build relationships and earn the respect of other teams.
• Organizational tolerance: able to work with ambiguity and constant change.
• Genuine passion for customer service.
• Enjoys and has implemented change.
• Believes strongly in his/her abilities.

The Company You’ll Join

We are a first-of-its-kind, category-defining software that is revolutionizing the commercial construction industry. Clearstory is digitizing and automating the change order process inside the commercial construction industry. Regardless of what financial software a construction company uses internally, they can use us to share costs with the companies they work with. This is why our integrations team is so critical to our company’s success!

Just as TurboTax did for tax documents and Bill.com did for accounts receivable and accounts payable, Clearstory is doing the same for change order communication between construction companies.

The construction industry is being transformed fast by technology, but the way companies communicate costs hasn’t evolved in decades and still heavily relies on carbon copy paper, spreadsheets and email to track billions of dollars. These arcane manual processes can take days or weeks and include hours of manual office tasks such as scanning, manually transcribing, and tedious data-entry into spreadsheets.

At Clearstory we are changing that and creating a new category  “change order communication,” by intelligently digitizing this age-old process. This leads to an increase in profits, more successful contractor-to-customer relationships, more transparency into a project’s true cost, and less wasted paper! 

We are a Series B 100% SaaS company with impressive credentials for a company at our stage.

The Team You’ll Be Surrounded By

In addition to experienced SaaS sales, marketing, engineering and product leaders, our team has over 60 years of combined experience in the commercial construction space. At Clearstory we know our customer’s pain points and challenges firsthand and have built a category-defining product that serves the user first.

You’ll be part of an ambitious and collaborative company, committed to growing a supportive and diverse team that is passionate about empowering our contractor customers.

More important than meeting 100% of qualifications, we are looking for collaborative, long-term team members with a growth mindset, a commitment to proactive communication, and a bias towards action, who are aligned and excited with our company’s mission to build the industry standard in digital change order communication for the commercial construction industry.

The Opportunity

As an early member of the team, you will have an exceptional level of impact on the development and iteration of our Company and the workplace culture itself. 

This is your chance to join a team that is bringing game-changing technology to a stagnant, static, pen-and-paper part of the commercial construction industry.

This is an earlier-stage company and as such you will have many intangible benefits that go along with that opportunity such as the ability to influence the culture of your workplace, the ability to make an immediate impact with a product that already has an established product market fit and a healthy and growing user base as well as significant product influence

Benefits

Ability to work with a new product category that has already found product market fit

• Hybrid work schedule - this role is 3 days a week in our office here in Walnut Creek and two flex days where you are welcome to come into the office or work from home.
• Executive interaction on a regular basis
• Competitive market-rate salary for a Series A company
• Subsidized healthcare, vision, and dental
• Early equity!

We are an equal-opportunity employer and are committed to providing a positive interview experience for every candidate. If accommodations due to a disability or medical condition are needed, connect with us via email at [email protected]. As a company, we value fairness, collaboration, communication, and leadership and build our teams around these values.