Backend Software Engineer

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Job Title Staff Backend Software Engineer

A successful Staff Backend Software Engineer at Clover drives the development of real-time merchant insights that power everyday decisions for small businesses. They lead with technical rigor, support their team’s growth, and deliver data-backed products that are as scalable as they are impactful.

The Merchant Insights Engineering team at Clover builds scalable, full stack applications that deliver data-driven intelligence directly to our merchants—helping them better understand their business operations. This cross-functional team touches everything from data pipelines to web and mobile interfaces, working across Clover’s ecosystem of hardware and software.

• Lead and mentor a team of 6–8 engineers across data, server, web, and Android technologies
• Set the roadmap and strategy for Clover’s merchant-facing insights and analytics platform
• Partner with Product, Design, Data Engineering, and Data Science to deliver near real-time insights at scale
• Drive engineering excellence through coaching, feedback, process improvement, and system design
• Guide end-to-end project execution—ensuring delivery, quality, and cross-team coordination
• Own incident response and blameless postmortems for the team’s products

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 6+ years in software engineering
• 2+ years in a technical leadership role
• Proficiency in Java, Python, or C++
• Hands-on experience with SQL and data warehousing

• Microservices (Spring Boot)
• MySQL, Snowflake
• Writing performant SQL and JDBC queries
• Kubernetes and Docker
• Google Cloud Platform
• Python scripting
• Data analysis or mathematics background

$ - $ (Sunnyvale, California). Pay ranges for employees in other states may differ.

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