Clay Labs

Software Engineer, Backend (Product)

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2 months ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$170k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own a product surface from problem definition through shipped and measured outcomes.
  • Collaborate with design, data science, and go-to-market partners to scope work, write specifications, prioritize, and make product decisions.
  • Talk directly with customers through calls, support tickets, and observation of product usage.
  • Design and build data models, APIs, and jobs behind new product capabilities.
  • Improve system speed, reliability, scalability, code quality, and engineering velocity.
  • Mentor other engineers and learn from teammates with different strengths.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of hands-on engineering experience building products used by real customers.
  • Strong backend fundamentals, including API and schema design, SQL, preferably Postgres, and query optimization.
  • Ability and desire to scope, prioritize, specify, and own product work end to end rather than only implement fully specified tickets.
  • Strong execution, communication, product judgment, and code quality.
  • Experience with large-scale data pipelines, event ingestion systems, or other high-performance production systems is preferred.
  • Depth in Redis, Postgres, ElasticSearch, or OpenSearch is preferred.
  • Advanced proficiency optimizing serverless workloads on AWS is preferred.
  • Experience building with LLMs or agents as a product surface is preferred.
  • Experience with React, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, AWS, Terraform, CircleCI, Netlify, Playwright, CloudWatch, Datadog, or Mezmo is preferred.

Benefits

  • Employees can work for free with world-class coaches specializing in creativity, management, and more.

Tech Stack

AWSCircleCIDatadogElasticsearchNetlifyNode.jsPostgreSQLPythonReactRedisSQLTerraformTypeScript

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About Clay Labs

1,001-5,000 employees

Clay Labs builds a go-to-market data and automation platform that lets revenue teams discover prospects, enrich records from many providers, and personalize multichannel outreach. Delivered as a SaaS product with APIs and a data marketplace, it serves sales, marketing, and growth teams at startups and enterprises. The privately held company is headquartered in New York and is backed by investors including Sequoia Capital and CapitalG.

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