Clay Labs

Software Engineer, Backend (Product)

Clay Labs
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4 hours 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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