Software Engineer II (Viralsweep)

Take the clearer route to smart career growth. At clearer.io , we’re reimagining eCommerce by enhancing search, discovery, and customer engagement through a standout suite of innovative apps. Our mission is straightforward yet powerful: to empower our partners with solutions that streamline their operations, foster customer trust, and drive sustainable growth. We’re not just about technology - we’re about making eCommerce smarter, simpler, and more impactful, delivering solutions that inspire confidence and create real results.With fresh investment and rapid growth, this is the perfect time to join our journey. When you become part of clearer.io, you step into a role where your work truly matters. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to own your projects, drive outcomes, and make an impact within a supportive, diverse team of professionals dedicated to customer success. We value clarity, results, and a customer-centric approach that keeps us focused on delivering real value to our partners every step of the way.If you’re ready to cut through the clutter and focus on what really matters in a dynamic eCommerce landscape, clearer.io is the place to grow, lead, and shape the future of online retail. Join us, and be part of a team that’s committed to making eCommerce clearer, more efficient, and more rewarding for everyone.
Your Impact:As a Software Engineer II, you will lead the design and development of complex features and components for our cloud-based SaaS platform. You will architect and implement scalable solutions, provide technical guidance to other engineers, and contribute to the evolution of our technology stack. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer looking to take on greater technical responsibility and ownership.This is a fully remote position based in Vietnam. You’ll work as part of a collaborative full-stack engineering team and report directly to the Software Engineering Team Lead in the UK, bringing strong technical ownership, sound judgment, and a pragmatic approach to building reliable systems.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain complex features and components for cloud-based SaaS applications.
• Lead the development of medium to large-sized features, taking ownership from design to deployment and monitoring.
• Architect and implement solutions that are scalable, resilient, and maintainable.
• Proactively identify and address technical debt and architectural improvements.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to junior engineers, including code reviews and mentoring.
• Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define and refine technical requirements.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues, including performance and scalability problems.
• Contribute to the selection and evaluation of new technologies and tools.
• Stay up-to-date with industry best practices and emerging technologies.

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent and 2-4 years of relevant experience is required. Alternatively, an equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
• Experience with e-commerce and with specific experience of Shopify a plus!
• Expert-level proficiency in PHP and core programming principles (e.g. OOP, DRY, SOLID), with a focus on maintainable, long-lived systems.
• Strong experience building and maintaining large-scale, production PHP applications, ideally in a SaaS environment.
• Extensive experience with relational database design and query optimisation, particularly with MySQL and large datasets.
• Proven experience designing and operating event-driven and asynchronous systems, including background jobs, queues, cron-based workers, and webhook ingestion.
• Experience integrating and operating third-party APIs at scale, with a strong understanding of retries, and failure handling.
• Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, and infrastructure running in cloud environments (AWS preferred).
• Experience monitoring, debugging, and resolving complex production issues in distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of web application security best practices, particularly around data integrity and external integrations.
• Proven ownership of medium-to-large backend features in an Agile team, including technical decision-making and delivery.
• Practical experience using AI coding assistants and prompt engineering to accelerate development and improve code quality.

Qualities: What other characteristics do we look for?  Leadership potential for sure. But what does that mean?  Well, some of the attributes we appreciate include:
• Inquisitiveness
• Having pride in one’s work
• Tenacity: trying to work it out but knowing when to ask for help
• Follow-thru and dependability
• A strong belief in the team’s success 
• Most importantly, friendly/kind/a good teammate

Why clearer.io?

• We believe in making things simpler - for our customers, and for each other. That means clarity, purpose, and progress guide everything we do. 
• Customers at the heart: We obsess over their needs so we can grow together
• Purposeful progress: We don’t settle. We take initiative and embrace bold thinking.  
• Endless innovation: We refine, improve, and take meaningful action
• Always open: We build trust through transparency and global collaboration 

Clearer benefits:
• 100% Remote Culture: Work from anywhere that brings you happiness.
• Sign-on bonus
• Performance-based Year-End Bonus: Recognizing and rewarding your individual contributions.
• Wellness Allowance: Support for classes promoting physical and mental health.
• Time Off: 20 days/year, in addition to Vietnam holidays.
• MacBook Provided.
• Collaborative Events: Offline meet-ups, monthly gatherings and year-end party.
• Continuous Learning: Technical and general workshops, online resources.
• Health and Wellness Benefits: Generali Health Care, annual check-up.
• International Exposure: Enhance expertise and English communication skills.

Working hours: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Vietnam time), Monday to Friday.
We’re here to make things clearer - in e-commerce and in employee experience. If that sounds like your kind of role, we’d love to hear from you!