Y Combinator Senior Software Engineer, School Integrations
Summary
Builds and maintains high-performance data pipelines and microservices that securely connect millions of students and teachers to educational apps, using Go, TypeScript, React, and AWS.
Clever is on a mission to connect every student to a world of learning. As the leading identity platform for education, more than 111,000 schools worldwide use Clever to power secure digital learning experiences. With Clever’s layered security solutions, schools can protect access and identities for all staff, teachers, and students. With a secure identity platform for schools and a network of leading application providers, Clever is committed to advancing education with technology that works for students everywhere. Clever, a Kahoot! company, has an office in San Francisco, CA, but you can visit us at anytime.
About the Team & Opportunity
The School Integrations team at Clever is responsible for the technical foundation that connects schools to our ecosystem of learning applications. As a Software Engineer on this team, you will be a key contributor to the platform that powers Clever’s products and handles the massive data volumes required to automate account creation for millions of students and teachers. You will work across the full stack—from Go microservices to React frontends—to build tools that ingest school data from various Student Information Systems (SIS). This is an incredible opportunity for an engineer to solve real-world data-scaling problems, ensuring that every student has a simple and secure connection to their learning resources on day one.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- The problem you’ll solve: You will ensure that millions of users have seamless access to their learning apps by building and maintaining the high-performance data pipelines that power the Clever ecosystem.
- Who you’ll partner with: You will collaborate closely with Product, Design, and fellow engineers to build intuitive UIs and robust backend services.
- What success looks like: Success is measured by the delivery of robust, maintainable code and the successful execution of features that simplify complex data connections and transformations for schools.
- Key projects you’ll lead: You will develop new features for our microservices architecture, build resilient data sync pipelines, and contribute to the internal architectures that support Clever’s massive data-processing needs.
What We’re Looking For
Required Skills & Experience (Must-Haves)
- Engineering Foundation: 4+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer with a strong foundation in software engineering principles and full-stack development.
- Problem Solving: Proven ability to architect solutions for various product and data needs and a track record of leading small projects within a team environment.
- Quality & Reliability: A strong commitment to writing simple, high-performing code that is easy to maintain long-term, with practical experience generating and automating tests (unit and end-to-end).
- AI Development Tools: Familiarity with leveraging AI coding tools (such as Claude Code or Cursor) to enhance development workflows, productivity, and code quality.
- Cultural Alignment: A commitment to understand and prioritize the Clever engineering culture (see our blog post on Defining Clever's Engineering Culture).
Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Haves)
- Technical Stack: Experience with our tech stack which includes Go, TypeScript, Node.js, and React, using AWS services such as lambdas and step functions, and databases/storage such as DynamoDB, S3, OpenSearch, and MongoDB.
- Data at Scale: Knowledge of batch processing and working with data at high scale.
- System Stability: Comfort with participating in an on-call rotation to ensure the stability of the critical data pipelines that schools rely on daily.
Benefits & Perks
- Competitive salary
- Flexible PTO and Paid Parental Leave
- Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage
- Mental healthcare services
- Professional development budget
- Annual company retreat + team events
Salary Transparency
The range of our base salary cash compensation for this role for candidates living in the United States, besides NYC and San Francisco, CA, is between $140,000-$165,000. For candidates living in NYC and San Francisco, CA, it's between 154,000-$181,000. All final offers are determined using multiple factors, including experience and level of expertise.
Inclusion & Belonging
Clever believes classrooms and our company should be diverse and inclusive. We celebrate actions that build diverse teams, include every voice, and create safe spaces for everyone to bring their authentic selves to work.
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