With CLEAR, you are always you. CLEAR's mission is to enable frictionless and safe journeys using your identity. With more than 8 million members and 100+ partners across North America, CLEAR's identity platform connects you to the cards in your wallet - transforming the way you live, work and travel. Trust and privacy are the foundation of CLEAR. We have a commitment to members being in control of their own information and never sell member data. CLEAR is at the highest level of security by U.S. government regulators and is also certified as Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology under the SAFETY Act.

We are seeking a driven, strategic, technology focused and customer-centric software development leader. As an Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for leading our Biometrics Platform team in design, development, test, and deployment of these services. A successful candidate will have an established background in developing software, a strong technical ability, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment. This individual will have a strong track record of helping to deliver an effective, highly-available, and flexible technology platform in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly.

Do you geek out on performance tuning, scaling a microservices backend system, learning or further enhancing your biometrics technology knowledge?  Looking for a technology driven passionate leader that wants to help take our core biometrics platform to the next level.

What You Will Do:

• Make technology improvements for scalability to power sub-second verifications in biometrics across a large user base. 
• Set up our biometric platform for better resiliency and operational excellence.
• Evaluate and implement new biometric technologies for use in our platform. 
• Partner with product across agile delivery and product strategy to take our biometrics platform to the next level and beyond.
• Lead a team of engineers who are building cloud native applications hosted in AWS using modern distributed application design patterns.
• Hire and continually support the development of your team. We value intellectual curiosity, autonomy, and ownership and you will encourage, empower, and support your team's continued growth.

Who You Are:

• 8+ years of experience in understanding of all aspects of software engineering, including coding, maintenance, architecture and design
• 3+ years of experience leading and managing cross-functional teams to deliver products and projects on tight deadlines
• Drive Operational Excellence of a consumer facing software solution
• Understand OO design and knowledge of relevant modern design patterns
• Able to build, manage, and work with multiple teams to achieve defined goals
• Up to date with technology trends and experience in building cloud native is a plus
• Experience with biometrics is a nice to have but not necessary