Staff Full Stack Software Engineer

🌐 Location: 100% Remote within the United States

💰Compensation: $180-250k total compensation package

About Clever

Clever Real Estate is a venture-backed proptech company on a mission to change how people buy, sell, and manage real estate. Since 2017, we've helped more than 200,000 homeowners sell their homes while saving thousands in fees, and we're just getting started. With a strong foundation in real estate, we're aggressively expanding through vertical integration, building a suite of adjacent businesses that serve customers at every step of the home transaction journey.

We’ve built a leading real estate platform and earned a 4.9 TrustPilot rating with over 4,000 reviews, helping consumers save over $220 million in real estate fees. 

As a team, we FORGE leaders. We move with Frequency and urgency, take Ownership of outcomes, build genuine Relationships, commit to Growth every day, and hold ourselves to a standard of Excellence we're always raising. If you're excited to play a key role at a company that transforms how people navigate their real estate journey, we’d love to hear from you!

AI Usage

We expect all team members to leverage AI tools as a natural part of their daily workflow — using them to handle routine tasks efficiently so you can spend more of your energy on the work that actually matters: collaborating, problem-solving, and driving strategy.

About the Role

As a Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer at Clever, you will own meaningful customer and operational problems from initial framing through production. Working across our Python/Django backend and React/TypeScript frontend, you will turn ambiguous needs into complete, reliable solutions.

We are a small, high-autonomy team looking for engineers who make sound tradeoffs, move quickly, and remain accountable for outcomes. AI is core to how we work: you will use it to materially increase your speed, quality, and scope while retaining responsibility for everything you deliver.

Key Responsibilities

• Own full-stack product and operational initiatives from problem framing through implementation, launch, and production validation.
• Turn ambiguous requirements into practical plans, milestones, and shippable increments.
• Build and maintain reliable applications using Django and TypeScript.
• Make sound decisions about architecture, data models, APIs, integrations, testing, security, and production operations.
• Use AI tools throughout investigation, development, testing, debugging, and review to deliver materially better outcomes.
• Validate AI-assisted work rigorously and recognize when direct engineering judgment is required.
• Work directly with Product, Design, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand the underlying problem and define successful outcomes.
• Communicate progress, decisions, risks, and blockers proactively.
• Diagnose production issues, restore service responsibly, and drive follow-up improvements that reduce recurrence.
• Improve the systems, tooling, and engineering practices that help the broader team move faster and produce better work.

Experience

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong backend development experience with Python and Django.
• Experience building user-facing applications with React and TypeScript.
• Demonstrated ownership of meaningful production outcomes.
• Experience designing and integrating APIs, relational data models, and third-party services.
• Strong understanding of automated testing, security, data integrity, failure handling, and maintainable software design.
• Experience diagnosing production behavior using logs, metrics, traces, profiling, and other forms of operational evidence.
• Meaningful experience using AI tools in a professional engineering workflow.
• Ability to explain technical decisions, tradeoffs, and measurable results.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in a remote, cross-functional environment.

Ideal Experience

• Experience in a lean product organization where engineers work directly with business or operational stakeholders.
• Experience with marketplaces, matching, routing, lead management, workflow automation, or other multi-sided products.
• Experience building integration-heavy systems involving CRMs, communications platforms, webhooks, asynchronous jobs, or third-party APIs.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, background-processing systems such as Celery.
• Experience delivering complete features across both backend and frontend systems.
• Experience with production incidents, migrations, concurrency, data-quality problems, or other high-consequence workflows.
• Experience turning successful AI workflows into reusable automation, tooling, or team practices.

Compensation & Additional Information

• What We Offer
• 💰 Compensation: $180,000-$250,000 total compensation package
• 🏥 Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 🌴 Paid Time Off: 18 days of PTO (increases with tenure) plus 10 paid holidays
• 📚 Professional Development: Annual budget for learning and career growth
• 🏝️ Tenure Sabbaticals: Paid sabbaticals to celebrate major milestones
• 🏡 Clever Product Benefit: Exclusive access to Clever homeownership perks
• 🖥️ Work-From-Home Stipend: Support for your remote workspace
• 💼 401(k): Retirement plan administered through Guideline
• 👶 Parental Leave: 6–12 weeks of paid parental leave
• 💙 Wellness Benefits: Free counseling sessions and optional weekly meditation

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer Statement:

Clever Real Estate provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.