Software Engineer, Platform

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New York City, NY, USA
In-Office
75K-180K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Software • Automation
The Role
Build and operate customer-facing web applications and platform infrastructure across frontend, backend, data, integrations, and deployment. Design APIs, services, data models, background jobs, connectors, and AI-enabled workflows. Improve reliability, observability, scalability, security, testing, and production operations while partnering directly with customers and cross-functional teams. The role is fully onsite in New York City and requires strong ownership in a fast-moving startup environment.
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The Role

We are hiring Software Engineers (E3) to build the product and systems through which customers experience Clark.

You will own projects and features from customer problem through implementation, working across frontend applications, backend services, integrations, and production systems.

This is a broad engineering role for someone who enjoys operating across the stack, collaborating closely with users and teammates, and taking ownership of meaningful product and technical outcomes.

You will help build customer-facing workflows, integrations, internal tooling, and platform capabilities that support Clark's continued growth.

Why This Role Matters

Clark's customers operate across complex workflows involving documents, accounting systems, workpapers, approvals, evidence, and collaboration.

Software Engineers help turn Clark's AI capabilities into products customers can rely on every day. You'll build the workflows, integrations, and experiences that make audit work faster, more accurate, and more scalable.

The systems you build will directly influence customer experience, product velocity, and our ability to grow alongside our customers.

What You'll Do

  • Own and ship product features from planning through production

  • Build intuitive user experiences for complex audit and accounting workflows

  • Design and implement APIs, services, data models, and application logic

  • Partner with AI engineers to integrate AI capabilities into customer-facing products

  • Build integrations with customer systems and third-party platforms

  • Improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of existing systems

  • Contribute to shared services, internal tools, and platform capabilities

  • Improve observability, testing, deployment, and developer workflows

  • Investigate production issues and help resolve operational challenges

  • Work closely with Product, Design, Customer Success, Implementation, and Sales teams

  • Translate business and customer requirements into practical technical solutions

  • Maintain high standards for security, reliability, and code quality

  • Contribute to technical discussions and engineering best practices

Who You Are

  • 2-5 years of software engineering experience

  • Experience building and maintaining production web applications

  • Strong foundations in software engineering, system design, and debugging

  • Comfortable owning projects independently from requirements through deployment

  • Experience building APIs, backend services, and modern web applications

  • Familiarity with relational databases and cloud infrastructure

  • Strong product instincts and customer empathy

  • Comfortable working with ambiguity and making sound technical decisions

  • Able to balance speed, quality, and maintainability

  • Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset

  • High ownership and accountability

  • Excited to work in person with a fast-moving, talent-dense team

Bonus

  • Experience building enterprise SaaS products or workflow software

  • Experience building integrations, APIs, or data synchronization systems

  • Experience with accounting, compliance, financial, or document-management software

  • Experience incorporating LLMs or AI systems into products

  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, observability, or platform tooling

  • Experience automating internal business processes

  • Experience working at an early-stage startup

Skills Required

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience
  • Experience building and operating production web applications
  • Strong frontend and backend engineering fundamentals
  • Ability to independently own features across user experience, application logic, data, and infrastructure
  • Experience designing APIs, data models, background processing, and integrations
  • Experience with modern web applications, relational databases, and cloud infrastructure
  • Strong product sense and customer empathy
  • Ability to work directly with users and incorporate feedback quickly
  • Judgment around reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability
  • Ability to debug across application, integration, and infrastructure boundaries
  • Ability to balance speed with long-term technical quality
  • High ownership, strong communication, and comfort operating in ambiguous environments
  • Willingness to work onsite in NYC five days per week
  • Experience building enterprise SaaS or complex workflow products
  • Experience building APIs, integrations, connectors, or data-synchronization systems
  • Experience with accounting systems, document-management systems, or professional-services workflows
  • Experience building products incorporating LLMs or other AI capabilities
  • Experience with platform engineering, developer tooling, observability, or production reliability
  • Experience building internal tools and workflow automation
  • Experience with security, identity, access control, compliance, or regulated customer environments
  • Experience at an early-stage startup
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The Company
30 Employees
Year Founded: 2025

What We Do

Clark builds AI-native software for public accounting firms and auditors. Its platform acts as trust infrastructure for the AI economy, helping firms automate complex audit and accounting workflows, deploy AI safely, and modernize how audit teams operate. Designed around each firm’s environment and methodology, Clark focuses on reliability, accuracy, security, transparency, and productivity in high-trust professional work across modern accounting organizations.

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