Senior Product Engineer (Fullstack, Backend Heavy)

About Clipster

The role

We are looking for a Backend-Heavy Senior Engineer who isn’t afraid to touch the full stack. While your primary domain will be our Golang services and distributed architecture, you are a "Product Engineer" at heart — meaning you understand the "why" behind the code and can jump into the React/Next.js frontend whenever it’s the shortest path to delivering value.

The mindset we hire for

• Intensity & Grit — You run toward hard problems and stay until they are solved.
• Ambitious Simplification — You have the intelligence to solve complex problems and the wisdom to choose the simplest solution.
• Ownership & Mission Alignment — You don’t "close tickets"; you ship outcomes. You care about the creator economy as much as we do.
• AI Readiness — You leverage modern tools to multiply your output and keep us at the cutting edge.
• Humility & Collaboration — You are a high-bandwidth communicator who mentors others and leaves your ego at the door.

Your technical toolkit

• Core Backend — 5+ years of experience, with at least 3+ years of mastery in Golang. Comfortable with high-performance distributed systems.
• Fullstack Versatility — Backend is your home, but you have the skills to navigate and contribute to a React/Next.js frontend.
• Infrastructure & Data — Deep knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis, and ideally GCP.
• Architectural Mindset — You move seamlessly from system design to shipping production-ready code. Clean code, test coverage, and documentation are your tools for maintaining velocity.

Bonus points

• Experience with payment systems (we handle around $1M in monthly payouts).
• Event-driven architectures and real-time data processing.

Why Clipster

• Total ownership — Join a lean tech team of fewer than 15 people. What you build today, millions will use tomorrow.
• Remote & async — Work where you are most effective. We only ask for availability during our core hours (10am – 2pm UTC+2).
• Zero bureaucracy — No endless meetings. We value documentation, Slack, and Loom for high-bandwidth, low-noise collaboration.

Benefits

Compensation, flexibility, and the kit you need to do your best work — wherever you are.

• Competitive salary and equity

  Compensation that reflects the impact you have, plus equity so you share in what we’re building.

• Flexible time off

  Take the time you need. We trust adults to manage their own energy, not a leave balance.

• Remote-first

  Work from wherever you’re most productive. We gather in person whenever it makes sense.

• $1,000 home office bonus

  A one-time setup stipend to build a workspace you’ll actually want to work from every day.

• Annual education stipend

  Books, courses, conferences — we invest in you sharpening your craft, on us.

Our culture

We've always strived to build a company we enjoy working for. Here's what that means for us:

• High-quality software. Clean code, polished features, software we're proud to ship. Everyone here cares deeply about their work.
• Low hierarchy, high collaboration. Open communication, zero red tape, and easy access to everyone in the team. We support, mentor, and uplift each other.
• Small team, high independence and ownership. 12 people in the tech team, so what you do matters. Lots of space to grow in responsibility and ownership.
• Fully remote, flexible, async. Work when and where you're most effective. Our core hours are 10am - 2pm UTC+2.

Next steps

If this sounds like a strong fit, apply below.

1. Discovery call — a brief chat with our recruiter.
2. Pair programming — a hands-on session with one of our engineers.
3. System design — a discussion about an architectural problem, based on our day-to-day problems.
4. Engineering excellence discussion.
5. Final meet — chat with our Founder and PM to talk mission and values.