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# Senior Software Engineer, Devices at Clever

- **Company:** Clever
- **Location:** San Francisco CA OR in the Continental, United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-26
- **Apply:** https://www.clever.com/about/careers?gh_jid=8249307

## Job description

Clever is on a mission to connect every student to a world of learning. As the leading identity platform for education, more than 111,000 schools worldwide use Clever to power secure digital learning experiences. With Clever’s layered security solutions, schools can protect access and identities for all staff, teachers, and students. With a secure identity platform for schools and a network of leading application providers, Clever is committed to advancing education with technology that works for students everywhere. Clever, a Kahoot! company, has an office in San Francisco, CA, but you can visit us at [clever.com](https://www.clever.com/)anytime.

## About the Team & Opportunity

The Devices team builds Clever's integrations with the operating systems students use in the classroom: iOS, macOS, Windows, and ChromeOS. Our work spans web identity standards like OIDC and SAML and native code in Swift and C++, including Platform SSO apps for each OS and a browser extension. Students are our primary users, teachers are secondary, and IT admins set up and configure these integrations for their schools.

As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will build features across that surface, from backend services to native device clients.

## How You’ll Make an Impact

- The problem you'll solve: Students lose class time when signing in to a shared school device is slow or breaks. You will build device integrations that get them into their learning apps quickly and securely, and that IT admins can set up and manage without friction.
- Who you'll partner with: You will work closely with Product and Design on features, and with IT admins and Customer Support to understand how these integrations behave in real districts. You will also mentor peers through code reviews and technical leadership.
- What success looks like: Features and integrations ship reliably and are adopted by districts. Your code is easy to maintain and well tested, and you help the team keep the login systems schools rely on stable.
- Key projects you'll lead: You will drive work across native clients (Swift, C++) and the services behind them. Near-term projects include Platform SSO for macOS, Googlebooks login support, and Apple School Manager integration.

## What We’re Looking For

Required Skills & Experience (Must-Haves):

- Engineering Foundation: 4+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer with a strong foundation in software engineering principles and device-centric experience.
- Device Development: Professional experience building native applications for Windows, or supporting Windows environments. Experience with another platform (iOS, macOS, ChromeOS) is a plus.
- Server-Side Device Management: Experience with MDM platforms (Intune, Jamf), setting up and troubleshooting Entra/Azure environments, or integrating with Apple School Manager.
- Project Leadership: Proven ability to lead complex projects from design to deployment, collaborating effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- System Design: Experience architecting end-to-end systems that solve complex product needs and handle diverse data requirements.
- Quality & Reliability: A strong commitment to modular, extensible, testable code. You apply design patterns, refactor to pay down tech debt, and automate tests (unit and end-to-end).
- Cultural Alignment: A commitment to understand and prioritize the Clever engineering culture (see our blog post on[Defining Clever's Engineering Culture](https://engineering.clever.com/2017/09/06/defining-clevers-engineering-culture/)).

Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Haves):

- Technical Stack: Experience with our tech stack, which includes Swift, C++, Go, TypeScript, Node.js, and React, using AWS services such as lambdas, step functions and SQS, and databases/storage such as DynamoDB, S3, and MongoDB.
- Platform Breadth: Experience developing for at least one of iOS, macOS, Windows, and ChromeOS.
- System Stability: Comfort with participating in an on-call rotation to ensure the stability of the critical login systems that schools rely on daily.
- AI Development Tools: Familiarity with leveraging AI coding tools (such as Claude Code or Cursor) to enhance development workflows, productivity, and code quality.

## Benefits & Perks

- Competitive salary
- Flexible PTO and Paid Parental Leave
- Comprehensive health, vision, and dental coverage
- Mental healthcare services
- Professional development budget
- Annual company retreat + team events

Salary Transparency

The range of our base salary cash compensation for this role for candidates living in the United States, besides NYC and San Francisco, CA, is between $140,000-$196,000. For candidates living in NYC and San Francisco, CA, it's between $154,000-$215,000. All final offers are determined using multiple factors, including experience and level of expertise.

Inclusion & Belonging

Clever believes classrooms and our company should be diverse and inclusive. We celebrate actions that build diverse teams, include every voice, and create safe spaces for everyone to bring their authentic selves to work. Clever does not conduct interviews via text or Telegram. We will never ask for your financial information or reimbursement of equipment of any kind. If you receive any communications regarding employment with Clever that you think might be a scam, please email recruitingscam@clever.com.

If you are a resident of Colorado, please note you have the right to redact your age-related information like age, birth date, or dates of schooling.

## About Clever

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Clever provides an identity and single sign-on platform that securely connects K-12 schools with the digital learning applications they use.
- **Entity Type**: Private (subsidiary of Kahoot! AS)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Not explicitly listed in provided sources (CEO is Trish Sparks)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Education technology (EdTech) – identity and access management for K-12 schools.
- Target customers: K-12 school districts, individual schools, and educational application providers (B2B / B2G).
- Mission: To connect every student to a world of learning by advancing technology that works for students everywhere.

## Products & Services
- **[Clever Identity Platform]**: A SaaS platform that offers single sign‑on, identity management, data integration, and security for schools. It enables students and teachers to access over 700 educational applications through one secure login, while giving districts control over data and privacy.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $35.0 M (LinkedIn estimate) and total funding of $43.3 M across three rounds.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company is Kahoot! AS. More than 111,000 schools use Clever, including 95 of the 100 largest U.S. districts. Partners with 700+ educational applications.
- **Growth Signals**: 232 employees (+17.2% YoY), operates in 11 countries (including Brazil, Australia, Canada, Pakistan, Italy), and serves 60% of U.S. students monthly.

## Competitive Advantages
- Deep network effects: being the de facto identity layer for K-12 education in the U.S. makes switching costly for districts and app providers.
- Strong security and privacy focus tailored specifically to school data regulations.
- One integration that works with the vast majority of edtech apps, reducing friction for schools.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding the identity platform to cover more use cases (classroom engagement, data security) and broadening international presence (already in 11 countries).
- Continuing to build a secure, scalable infrastructure that supports digital learning for millions of students.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Flexible model – work from anywhere in the continental U.S. plus Hawaii, or from the San Francisco HQ.
- **Culture**: Collaborative, lifelong learning environment with a strong emphasis on inclusion and belonging. Employee resource groups include Women @ Clever, PoC @ Clever, LGBTQIA+ @ Clever, and many more.
- **Perks**: Competitive salary, equity for all, flexible PTO (encouraged minimum 3 weeks/year), 100% paid medical/dental/vision for employee (70% for dependents), 401K, generous parental leave, $1,000 yearly learning stipend, and annual company retreats (Winter Rally).
- **Engineering culture**: “Don’t trust the textbook” – encourages questioning, experimentation, and collaboration. Mentorship programs available. Focus on data security and solving tough technical challenges.

## Sources
1. [clever.com – Careers](https://www.clever.com/about/careers)
2. [clever.com – About](https://www.clever.com/about)
3. [clever.com – Homepage](https://www.clever.com/)
4. [linkedin.com – Clever Inc.](https://www.linkedin.com/company/clever-inc-)
5. [clever.com – Engineering](https://www.clever.com/about/engineering)

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