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We are revolutionizing the way employers attract and retain critical talent and the way colleges and universities support their students through education financing, all while tackling the student debt crisis. (Yep, we think BIG.) We like to think of ourselves as more than a fintech; we're a catalyst for economic mobility.\nA Forbes Fintech 50 company, portfolio company of SHRM (Society of Human Resource Management, the largest HR organization out there!) and recipient of \"Startup of the Year\" by StartUp Boston, Clasp is driven by our commitment to social impact and innovation.\nOur work spans two business lines:\nClasp Talent helps healthcare employers attract and retain critical talent by connecting them with diverse candidates and using student loan repayment as a powerful recruiting and retention tool. We meaningfully connect employers, educational institutions, and learners to drive mutual benefit.\nClasp Finance equips colleges and universities with lending technology to launch and operate their own private student loan programs, enabling schools to step in and support their students directly with financial aid.\nJoin us on our journey to give power to learners and unlock fulfilling careers that drive positive change in their communities and beyond.\nWho We Need\nWe're looking for a Tech Lead to anchor our new Foundations team in Clasp Talent. Foundations owns the core services and infrastructure that every Talent domain team builds on: user management and SSO, notifications, data exchange with employers, schools, and partners, and the shared platform patterns that sit underneath them. Your job is to make those building blocks reliable, well documented, and easy for other teams to adopt, so product teams ship faster without rebuilding the same plumbing.\nThis is a player-coach role. You will write and review code every week, set technical direction for the team, and mentor engineers of all levels. You'll partner with product, the other domain teams, and our technical leadership to decide what belongs in the foundation and what doesn't. You use AI tools deliberately to move faster, you have strong opinions about APIs and system design, and you can explain a tradeoff to a non-engineer in a way that leads to a decision.\nAt Clasp we run a DevOps culture where engineers have full ownership of the code they write and the infrastructure it runs on. We want someone who is excited to shape the architecture behind the product roadmap and the Clasp business, and to grow alongside us.\nWhat You'll Do\nOwn 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).\n\nDesign 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.\n\nBuild 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.\n\nWrite 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.\n\nWork with Product, Security, and Compliance to define requirements for identity, access, consent, and data handling in a regulated, financial-services-adjacent environment.\n\nBreak 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.\n\nMentor 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.\n\nApply AI-assisted development (code generation, test writing, refactoring, documentation) to raise quality and speed, and share what works with the wider engineering org.\n\nBuild resilient, self-healing systems using infrastructure as code, monitoring, and alerting, and participate in the on-call rotation for the services Foundations owns.\n\nWhat You'll Need\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent bootcamp or upskilling program experience.\n\n7+ 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.\n\nExperience designing APIs and integration patterns used by other teams or external partners, with attention to contracts, backward compatibility, and documentation.\n\nStrong fluency in Python (Django, Flask, FastAPI, or similar) and TypeScript/JavaScript (React, Next.js), and a PostgreSQL-backed data model.\n\nHands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar), cloud infrastructure (AWS or Google Cloud), infrastructure as code, and production monitoring.\n\nExperience working with Product and Compliance or Security teams in financial services or another regulated environment.\n\nAI-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.\n\nStrong written and verbal communication. You can articulate technical tradeoffs, align stakeholders, and make sound decisions under ambiguity.\n\nA genuine interest in technology that expands access to education and economic mobility.\n\nNice to Have\nHands-on experience designing and operating identity and access systems: authentication, SSO (SAML, OIDC, OAuth), user provisioning (e.g., SCIM), and role-based permissions.\n\nExperience building notification or messaging systems (transactional email, templating, preferences, delivery tracking, retries) or similar event-driven infrastructure.\n\nExperience building internal platform or \"paved road\" capabilities that multiple product teams adopt.\n\nExperience with enterprise customers' identity requirements (IdP integrations, domain verification, just-in-time provisioning).\n\nFamiliarity with HRIS or ATS integrations, or with education data standards.\n\nExperience with data privacy and security frameworks (SOC 2, FERPA, GLBA) and their technical implications.\n\nPrior experience mentoring engineers or moving into engineering management.\n\nWhat We Give In Return\nCompetitive cash and equity compensation\n\nHealth benefits (health, dental, & vision)\n\nStudent loan repayment benefits\n\n401k + match\n\nFlexible PTO policy\n\nOpportunities to grow and perform in a fast-paced environment alongside a stellar team\n\nSalary\nThe 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.\nWork authorization\n 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.\nHow we use AI in hiring\n 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  and we'll arrange another process where we can.\nEqual opportunity\n Clasp is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We don't discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status (except as required by law), or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered in line with applicable fair chance laws. 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