Senior Fullstack Engineer, Lending (Clasp Finance)

About the role

Clasp is a venture-backed, mission-driven startup transforming access to education and career pathways. 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. A 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. Our work spans two business lines: Clasp 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. Clasp 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. Recent federal financial aid changes are reshaping how institutions think about supporting their students, and Clasp Finance is poised to meet this moment. Join us on our journey to give power to learners and unlock fulfilling careers that drive positive change in their communities and beyond. What We Need We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Clasp Finance engineering team, a small, high-impact group working at the intersection of financial operations, product, and data. You will report to the Engineering Director, Lending and work directly with your teammates and stakeholders to build a resilient, highly available, and compliant workbench for Clasp Lending. This is not a role for someone who just ships features and moves on. You'll own hard problems end-to-end, building the operational tooling, data pipelines, and product features that make a lending platform run. You use AI tools deliberately and creatively to move faster than a team twice your size. You have strong opinions about software quality, are relentlessly detail-oriented, and thrive in ambiguous, high-ownership environments. We want someone who looks at a hard codebase and is excited to tactically and surgically work on improving the application in every interaction.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain features across the loan origination platform, ranging from application intake and decisioning logic through servicing and collections workflows.
• Build and maintain internal operational tooling that empowers the Clasp Finance team to manage loans, configure programs, run reports, and respond to school and borrower needs with precision.
• Participate in architecture decisions, code reviews, and technical design discussions that shape the long-term health of the platform.
• Apply AI-assisted development techniques (code generation, test writing, refactoring, documentation) to asymmetrically scale your impact and ship higher-quality software faster.
• Collaborate with compliance and legal to implement regulatory requirements (TILA, ECOA, fair lending, state licensing) as first-class engineering constraints - not afterthoughts.
• Develop and instrument data pipelines alongside the data team that power credit modeling, compliance reporting, and school-facing portfolio analytics - treating data accuracy as non-negotiable.
• Engage occasionally with school and university technical stakeholders to understand integration needs and build confidence in the platform's reliability.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous learning, high standards, and direct, low-ego feedback.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong fluency in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript. You write clean, maintainable code and understand the tradeoffs and appropriate use cases for each language.
• Experience building operational and/or internal tooling for fintech, lending, or another regulated domain.
• Familiarity with Django (or a comparable Python web framework) and React - enough to build full-stack features and understand the full request lifecycle.
• Hands-on experience with cloud/serverless infrastructure (AWS Lambda, GCP Cloud Functions, or equivalent) and modern deployment practices.
• Strong written and verbal communicator to explain technical decisions to non-engineers and

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Senior Fullstack Engineer, Lending (Clasp Finance) Remote (ET & CT time zones only - some travel required)

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