# Staff Software Engineer at Clear

- Company: Clear
- What the company does: Clear - India’s largest tax and financial services software platform. Discover our software products and solutions for ITR filing, e-Invoicing, GST and e-Way Bill compliance, invoicing and billing, Max ITC, Taxcloud, invest, TDS & expert services. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://clear.in/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York, NY, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $325K to $500K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-22
- Apply by: 2026-11-06
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clear/jobs/8202261
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/clear-staff-software-engineer-2/

## About the role

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences.

## What they're looking for

- Design, build, test, and deploy scalable applications that power CLEAR’s identity platform
- Own projects end to end—from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, rollout, adoption, and operational support
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Operations to translate business problems into simple, scalable technical solutions
- Design for reality by understanding failure modes, system dependencies, degradation strategies, recovery paths, and the points where systems may break under scale
- Build quality and operability into the design from the start, including test strategy, observability, alerting, safe rollouts, rollback plans, and ongoing system health monitoring
- Drive technical direction and engineering best practices across teams by identifying architectural opportunities, reducing technical debt, and improving platform scalability, security, and maintainability

Tags: Engineering