🧑💻 Senior Software Engineer
Palo Alto
Product /
Full-time /
Remote
Clerky is the legal infrastructure behind the most ambitious startups. We're the trusted platform founders use to incorporate, raise capital, hire, and stay diligence-ready from day one.
Thousands of top startups like DoorDash, Coinbase, and Instacart got their start on Clerky, and our customers are now worth over $500 billion in aggregate. In fact, nearly a quarter of all early-stage financings in Silicon Valley are for our customers, more than any other platform.
We’re a small, senior team of engineers, designers, and former startup attorneys. Our product ethos combines precision and polish with the rigor of big-law diligence. Every flow is crafted to anticipate edge cases, streamline workflows, and meet the standards of the world's top law firms and investors.
Our customers love us because we're invisible when we should be, and exacting when it matters. We're proudly bootstrapped and profitable, with no sales team and minimal marketing spend — our growth comes directly from founder and attorney word-of-mouth.
As we expand into new problem spaces, there's never been a more exciting time to join. You’ll ship high-impact features in a mission-critical product used by the next generation of breakout companies, often while they’re still in stealth.
If you care deeply about quality, love untangling complexity, and want your work to directly empower founders to build faster and smarter, we’d love to meet you.
Notes on our stack and process:
- Our backend is mostly in Ruby on Rails, with very small amounts of Scala and Go as well.
- Our front-end is mostly in Ember.
- We use CI extensively for linting, tests, visual diffs, and deployment.
- We're not religious about any particular technology — we believe in using the right tool for a given problem.
This is a great fit if you want to work:
- ... on a complex product, with a ton of engineering challenges
- ... in a company that strongly values good software development practices
- ... at a product-driven company bringing an archaic industry into the future
- ... on a beloved product with a lot of usage and visibility in the startup community
- ... with bright people who are extremely passionate about their work
- ... on a small but extremely high-performing team
- ... at a financially sound company that is not dependent on venture capital financing
You must have:
- Familiarity and comfort with leveraging AI for maximum coding efficiency
- An inability to write anything but clean, maintainable code
- A strong aversion to code without test coverage
- Deep experience with building, maintaining, and optimizing large-scale, production web applications
- Significant experience building software as part of a team with strong development practices
- Excellent written English communication skills
Experience with Ruby and Rails or Ember are large bonuses, but not mandatory.
We've been remote-first since 2013. We are only looking directly for full-time employees — we are absolutely not interested in agencies, contractors, or recruiters.
Compensation is at the high end for a Series A / B startup based on your specific geography.
