Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Exciting work from home opportunity for a Remote Senior Full-Stack Engineer role! This position offers full-time remote work at Clearstream. Who we areClearstream is a communication and engagement platform serving more than 9,000 churches and non-profits. Our core products are texting and email. You can learn more about our company, culture, and values at Clearstream and on our "Our Story" page. We are a small, detail-oriented, tight-knit team with a high standard for the work we ship. This role will be an important part of that. Our team works four days per week (36 hours), which means a three-day weekend every week. 🎉 The roleWe are looking for a Senior Full-Stack Engineer with strong experience in Vue and Laravel, excellent attention to detail, and a genuine desire to serve the local church through great software. You will work closely with our Director of Engineering and our small product team. You will own features end-to-end once scope is defined. Your work will include writing code, writing tests, reviewing pull requests, offering suggestions to improve the developer experience, and occasionally making edits to our `AGENTS.md` file. This role is a strong fit for someone who cares deeply about code quality, application and database performance, polished implementation, and working independently on a small, high-trust team. Requirements What we’re looking forWe are looking for someone who can contribute across the stack with a high degree of ownership. You should be comfortable taking a polished Linear issue and carrying it through implementation, testing, and deployment. You should be able to work autonomously, communicate clearly, and consistently produce thoughtful, high-quality work. You likely have several years of experience building production web applications with Laravel and modern single-page applications. Experience working on large-scale applications with high availability is a plus. You may be a fit if you have:A desire to understand the why. You want to understand the problem a feature is solving for our churches. You do not want to simply check something off a list. Strong programming fundamentals. You may not be an expert in every part of our stack, but you understand the fundamentals deeply and write clean, well-tested code. Keen attention to detail. You care about the little things. As a product team, we believe in quality over quantity. A mindset of continuous improvement. You are always looking for ways to improve yourself, our processes, and our product. High ownership. You manage your time well, work efficiently, and know when to ask for help. A genuine desire to serve the local church. That is the heart of our mission at Clearstream. Working hours: You must be able to maintain at least a four-hour overlap with our team’s working hours of 7:00a – 4:00p ET. Our techYou should have experience with most of the following: Laravel, MySQL, and Redis on the backend Vue + TypeScript SPA on the frontend React Planning Center plugin Tailwind CSS v3 Hosted on AWS OpenAI and Claude subscriptions GitHub, Linear, Slack, and Loom for communication What success looks like in this roleYou are regularly building new user-facing features that are reliable and polished. You have provided thoughtful reviews on several pull requests. You have improved the performance of a few slow queries. You have suggested a couple of meaningful improvements to our design system. You have identified ways we can improve our development process. You have beaten someone on the product team at GeoGuessr. Benefits 4-day work week year-round (36 hours) Base salary: $130,000–$160,000 99% company-paid premium healthcare coverage through Blue Cross Blue Shield, plus 75% company-paid dependent coverage 100% company-paid vision, dental, and life insurance 5% 401(k) match 5 PTO days in year one. 10 PTO days per year starting year two Paid sick time Minimal working hours during the week of Christmas and New Year’s Annual Christmas bonus Annual compensation review Phone and gym allowance Remote, in-office, or hybrid Application processTo apply, please send us your resume, a few examples of code you've written, and a 1–2 minute video introducing yourself and explaining why you’d be a good fit for this role. The video is required. We will not consider applications submitted without it. Interview process1. Initial application — Resume, design examples, and required intro video. 2. Zoom interview — A conversation with our Director of Engineering and Director of Operations. 3. Code challenge — This should take around four to six hours. We will compensate your time. 4. Reference check — We’ll ask for references and take time to review them. 5. Final Zoom interview — We’ll discuss your code challenge, ask any final questions, and give you time to ask any remaining questions you have.