Tech Lead, Foundations

🕒 October 6

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $165k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Clasp

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2018

📚 Education

🏥 Healthcare

👥 HR Tech

Education • Healthcare • HR Tech

Clasp is a high-retention recruiting platform that addresses talent shortages in critical fields such as healthcare and vocational training. By connecting students with employers ready to invest in their potential, Clasp helps ease student loan burdens while fostering a sustainable pipeline of skilled professionals. The company enhances student access to education, creating lasting connections between education and employment.

📋 Description

• Own the technical direction for Talent's shared services, including user management, authentication and SSO, role-based access control, and notification systems • Design and evolve data exchange using APIs, events, webhooks, and file-based integrations with employers, schools, HRIS, and partner systems • Establish clear integration contracts, versioning, and observability • Build reusable services, libraries, and patterns that domain teams can adopt with minimal friction • Write documentation, gather feedback, and measure adoption from engineering teams • Write and review front-end and back-end code, setting standards for code quality, system design, and security • Work with Product, Security, and Compliance on identity, access, consent, and data-handling requirements • Break initiatives into milestones and stories; balance platform investment and technical debt against feature requests • Mentor and coach engineers and help build a collaborative engineering culture • Apply AI-assisted development for code generation, testing, refactoring, and documentation • Build resilient, self-healing systems using infrastructure as code, monitoring, and alerting • Participate in the on-call rotation for Foundations-owned services

🎯 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; ability to articulate technical tradeoffs, align stakeholders, and make sound decisions under ambiguity • Genuine interest in technology that expands access to education and economic mobility • Nice to have: hands-on experience with identity and access systems, authentication, SSO (SAML, OIDC, OAuth), SCIM, and role-based permissions • Nice to have: experience building notification or messaging systems and event-driven infrastructure • Nice to have: experience building internal platform or paved-road capabilities adopted by multiple product teams • Nice to have: experience with enterprise identity requirements, IdP integrations, domain verification, and just-in-time provisioning • Nice to have: familiarity with HRIS or ATS integrations or education data standards • Nice to have: experience with SOC 2, FERPA, GLBA, and their technical implications • Nice to have: prior experience mentoring engineers or moving into engineering management • Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer • This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship, now or in the future

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive cash and equity compensation • Health benefits (health, dental, & vision) • Student loan repayment benefits • 401k + match • Flexible PTO policy • Opportunities to grow and perform in a fast-paced environment alongside a stellar team

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