Staff Backend Software Engineer

What Does a Successful Staff Backend Software Engineer at Clover Do? A successful Staff Backend Software Engineer at Clover drives the development of real-time merchant insights that power everyday decisions for small businesses. They lead with technical rigor, support their team's growth, and deliver data-backed products that are as scalable as they are impactful.

About The Team: The Merchant Insights Engineering team at Clover builds scalable, full stack applications that deliver data-driven intelligence directly to our merchants-helping them better understand their business operations. This cross-functional team touches everything from data pipelines to web and mobile interfaces, working across Clover's ecosystem of hardware and software.

What You Will Do:

• Lead and mentor a team of 6-8 engineers across data, server, web, and Android technologies
• Set the roadmap and strategy for Clover's merchant-facing insights and analytics platform
• Partner with Product, Design, Data Engineering, and Data Science to deliver near real-time insights at scale
• Drive engineering excellence through coaching, feedback, process improvement, and system design
• Guide end-to-end project execution-ensuring delivery, quality, and cross-team coordination
• Own incident response and blameless postmortems for the team's products

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 6+ years in software engineering
• 2+ years in a technical leadership role
• Proficiency in Java, Python, or C++
• Hands-on experience with SQL and data warehousing

What Would Be Great To Have:

• Microservices (Spring Boot)
• MySQL, Snowflake
• Writing performant SQL and JDBC queries
• Kubernetes and Docker
• Google Cloud Platform
• Python scripting
• Data analysis or mathematics background

We're Fiserv, a global leader in Fintech and payments, and we move money and information in a way that moves the world. We connect financial institutions, corporations, merchants and consumers to one another millions of times a day - quickly, reliably, and securely. Any time you swipe your credit card, pay through a mobile app, or withdraw money from the bank, we're involved. If you want to make an impact on a global scale, come make a difference at Fiserv., Fiserv does not accept resume submissions from agencies outside of existing agreements. Please do not send resumes to Fiserv associates. Fiserv is not responsible for any fees associated with unsolicited resume submissions.