Senior Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure
ClayJoin Clay as a Senior Software Engineer, Backend Infrastructure
At Clay, we are on a mission to empower businesses to grow by helping teams find and reach out to the right people. We are building a new type of data workflow tool that allows teams to find the right data, craft custom workflows, and automate their go-to-market strategy. Our Backend Infrastructure Team is at the core of our operations, maintaining the API, storage, queues, and search functionality. We are obsessed with speed, scalability, security, and improving the developer experience for the whole team.
What You'll Do
- Design & Ship Core Features: You will spec, implement, and maintain core features and infrastructure. Given the size of the team, everyone touches all parts of the stack and has significant responsibility.
- Collaborate & Learn: Partner with the rest of our team, communicate openly, give and receive thoughtful feedback, and learn from experts in their fields.
- Take Ownership: We focus on building a high-trust, ownership-focused environment where everyone defines what is most important to work on and drives initiatives forward.
What You'll Bring
- Experience: Demonstrated ability to ship high-quality, well-tested features. A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or 4+ years working as a software engineer in production environments.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in JavaScript (Node, React, vanilla JS) or another general-purpose programming language with the ability to quickly learn.
- Communication Skills: Excellent written communication skills and a design-minded consideration of abstractions.
- Big Picture Thinking: Ability to think about all aspects of the product, keeping UX and business objectives in mind.
Nice To Haves
- Diversity of Perspectives: We value curiosity and open-mindedness.
- Experience with Systems & Data at Scale: Experience with large-scale high-performance data pipelines, event ingestion systems, or larger production systems.
- Additional Proficiency: Experience with Linux, containers, cloud environments (AWS, Google Cloud), Kafka, Pubsub, SQS, and languages like Go, Rust, C++, or Clojure.
Working @ Clay
- Location: Based out of a central office on 19th Street in Manhattan's Flatiron District, with the flexibility to work from home when needed.
- Compensation: Competitive salary and role trajectory. Roles, responsibilities, and compensation grow as we do.
- Benefits: Fully funded, high-quality health, dental & vision coverage, visa sponsorship, flexible schedules, and paid time off. We encourage team members to take at least 3 weeks fully-disconnected per year.
- Mental Health: We are building a plan to help you find coaches, mentors, and mental-health services.
- Personal Comfort: Order whatever equipment you think will help you work more enjoyably.
Join us at Clay and be part of a team that values creativity, discipline, and attention to detail. We are committed to building a diverse team that reflects our beliefs and cannot wait to speak with you.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- Medical insurance
- Health insurance
- Dental & vision coverage
- Visa sponsorship
- Flexible schedules
- Paid time off
- Mental health support
- Personal equipment allowance
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