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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer (Operational Systems Team - **Company:** Cleerly, Inc. - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $153,000.0 - $179,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Confluence, JIRA, Code Review, Digital Rendering, Continuous Integration, Medical Software, PostgreSQL, Node.Js, Next.js, Software Engineering, Systems Architecture, TypeScript, Data Logging, Cloud Platform System, ReactJS, System Availability, Backend, AWS ECS, Event Driven Architecture, Information Technology, Operational Systems, Gsuite, Front End Software Development, Api Design, Docker, Microservices - **Published:** September 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/6a8cf067-79af-4d60-964d-c0a6da4b464e/sr-software-engineer-operational-systems-team ## About the Role - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience). - 8-12 years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in backend systems (Node.js, PostgreSQL) and experience with modern front-end frameworks (React, TypeScript). - Proven track record of architecting and delivering scalable systems in production environments. - Experience mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar through reviews and design feedback. - Strong systems thinking with the ability to evaluate tradeoffs in scalability, reliability, and maintainability. - Experience designing for observability and operational excellence (e.g., logs, alerts, dashboards, runbooks). - Comfortable operating in ambiguity and driving clarity across product, engineering, and business stakeholders. **Preferred:** - Familiarity with regulated domains (e.g., healthcare, fintech) and high-availability infrastructure. - Experience with containerized cloud environments (Docker, AWS ECS/EKS), CI/CD automation, and infrastructure as code. - Exposure to event-driven architecture or microservices with asynchronous workflows. If you're excited to solve meaningful problems at scale, influence architecture across systems, and mentor the next generation of engineers, we'd love to hear from you. The base salary range for this role varies by location and is aligned to market benchmarks. - Candidates located in **higher-cost labor markets** , including California, Washington, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Washington, DC represent the middle to high end of the range, while candidates located in **all other U.S. locations** represent the low to middle end of the range. - Final compensation is determined based on location, experience, skills, and internal equity. ## Description At Cleerly, we collaborate digitally and use a wide variety of systems. Our people use Google Workspace (GMail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides), Slack, Confluence/Jira, and Zoom Video, prior experience in these areas is a plus. Role or department specific technology needs may vary and will be listed as requirements in the job description. While we are mostly a remote company, travel is required for some team meetings and cross function projects typically once per month or once per quarter, for some roles like sales or external facing roles travel could be up to 90% of the time. _Cleerly is committed to providing safe and effective medical software that meets customer needs and our intended use. The adherence to all applicable regulatory and statutory requirements establishes a clear framework for setting measurable quality objectives. Our commitment to continually improving our products and processes proactively manages risks, ensuring ongoing compliance throughout the entire software lifecycle. Understanding this role's relevance and importance is critical to achieving Cleerly's quality objectives._ **About the Team** The Operational System team owns the Core Lab Case Management platform, which is the central nervous system of our laboratory operations. We build the workflows that orchestrate the lifecycle of each case, ensuring that complex case data moves seamlessly through the lab and is categorized and prioritized correctly. By optimizing how cases are processed, we ensure our operations remain scalable and our COGS grows efficiently, not linearly, alongside our business. **About the Opportunity** We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive key technical initiatives across our platform. In this high-impact role, you'll own complex systems end-to-end, influence architecture decisions, and mentor other engineers, playing a pivotal part in shaping our engineering culture and scaling enterprise capabilities. **Responsibilities** - Develop scalable backend services (Node.js, TypeScript) and performant user-facing applications (React, Next.js). - Design extensible system architectures and make pragmatic trade-offs that balance performance, security, and maintainability. - Own full lifecycle delivery of complex features, from architectural planning and API design to UI implementation and post-release observability. - Ensure high availability and observability of our services; improve alerting, logging, and incident response across the stack. - Set and uphold strong engineering standards via code reviews, technical mentorship, and design documentation. - Partner with product, design, and stakeholders to align engineering with business goals and user needs. - Lead technical design reviews and system decomposition efforts across teams. - Proactively identify risks and gaps in operational or architectural resilience, and drive durable improvements. - Collaborate closely across engineering to reduce knowledge silos and ensure continuity in critical systems through cross-training and documentation. - Participate in on-call rotations and lead post-incident reviews, driving long-term reliability improvements across systems. **Requirements** ## Related Videos - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Improving quality with Agentic AI with Rovo Dev and Xray](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2005-improving-quality-with-agentic-ai-with-rovo-dev-and-xray) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [Docker build without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100114-docker-build-without-docker) - [Collaboration Quantified: Lessons from Open Source Developer Networks](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1422-collaboration-quantified-lessons-from-open-source-developer-networks) - [WeAreDevelopers LIVE – AI, Freelancing, Keeping Up with Tech and More](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1786-wearedevelopers-live-ai-freelancing-keeping-up-with-tech-and-more) ## Related Articles - [How Much Does a Software Engineer Make? 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