clasp-group - Tech Lead, Foundations
Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent bootcamp or upskilling program experience. • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent, including time leading technical direction for a team or a shared platform, at a SaaS startup or similar environment. • Experience designing APIs and integration patterns used by other teams or external partners, with attention to contracts, backward compatibility, and documentation. • Strong fluency in Python (Django, Flask, FastAPI, or similar) and TypeScript/JavaScript (React, Next.js), and a PostgreSQL-backed data model. • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar), cloud infrastructure (AWS or Google Cloud), infrastructure as code, and production monitoring. • Experience working with Product and Compliance or Security teams in financial services or another regulated environment. • AI-native in your workflow: you use coding tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude, etc.) as a real force multiplier and are excited about what AI unlocks for engineering. • Strong written and verbal communication. You can articulate technical tradeoffs, align stakeholders, and make sound decisions under ambiguity. • A genuine interest in technology that expands access to education and economic mobility. • Hands-on experience designing and operating identity and access systems: authentication, SSO (SAML, OIDC, OAuth), user provisioning (e.g., SCIM), and role-based permissions. • Experience building notification or messaging systems (transactional email, templating, preferences, delivery tracking, retries) or similar event-driven infrastructure. • Experience building internal platform or "paved road" capabilities that multiple product teams adopt. • Experience with enterprise customers' identity requirements (IdP integrations, domain verification, just-in-time provisioning). • Familiarity with HRIS or ATS integrations, or with education data standards. • Experience with data privacy and security frameworks (SOC 2, FERPA, GLBA) and their technical implications. • Prior experience mentoring engineers or moving into engineering management. • WHAT WE GIVE IN RETURN • Competitive cash and equity compensation • Health benefits (health, dental, & vision)
Responsibilities
• Own the technical direction for Talent's shared services, including user management, authentication and SSO, role-based access control, and notification systems (email, in-app, and other channels). • Design and evolve our approach to data exchange: APIs, events, webhooks, and file-based integrations with employers, schools, HRIS and other partner systems, with clear contracts, versioning, and observability. • Build reusable services, libraries, and patterns that domain teams can adopt with minimal friction. Treat other engineering teams as your customers: write the docs, gather feedback, and measure adoption. • Write code alongside the team across the front end and back end, and set the bar for code quality, system design, and security through hands-on contribution and code review. • Work with Product, Security, and Compliance to define requirements for identity, access, consent, and data handling in a regulated, financial-services-adjacent environment. • Break large initiatives into milestones, spec stories with the team and product leadership, and balance platform investment and technical debt against feature requests from domain teams. • Mentor and coach engineers, and help the team build an engineering culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement. This role has no direct reports at the start, with a path toward managing people as the team grows. • Apply AI-assisted development (code generation, test writing, refactoring, documentation) to raise quality and speed, and share what works with the wider engineering org. • Build resilient, self-healing systems using infrastructure as code, monitoring, and alerting, and participate in the on-call rotation for the services Foundations owns.
Benefits
• Flexible PTO policy • Opportunities to grow and perform in a fast-paced environment alongside a stellar team • The salary range for this position is competitive and will be commensurate with the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and industry knowledge, ranging between $165,000-$185,000 annually. In addition to the base salary, we offer an attractive equity component as part of our compensation package, providing an opportunity for eligible employees to share in the success and growth of our company. We are committed to offering competitive compensation and benefits packages to attract and retain top talent. • Work authorization • This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship, now or in the future. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer. • How we use AI in hiring • Clasp uses AI-assisted tools in parts of our hiring process, such as AI notetakers transcribing or summarizing interviews, scheduling, and supporting evaluation in technical assessments. Humans review applications and make every hiring decision. AI tools don't make final decisions about any candidate. You're welcome to use AI to research Clasp and prepare, but during live interviews and assessments we want to hear your own thinking, so please don't use AI tools that generate or feed you responses in real time. If you'd like to be evaluated without AI tools, need an accommodation, or have questions about how we use these tools, email [email protected] and we'll arrange another process where we can. • Equal opportunity
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