Clay
Software Engineer, Backend (Product)
$170K–$300K
New York · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years of hands-on engineering experience building products people use.
About the job
Own and build backend product capabilities at Clay, from defining customer problems and designing systems to shipping, measuring, and improving them.
What you'll do
- Own a product surface end to end, including problem definition, scoping with partners, shipping, and measuring outcomes.
- Design and maintain data models, APIs, and jobs for product capabilities, improving speed, reliability, and scalability.
- Talk to customers, learn from product usage, and improve the codebase while mentoring and learning from engineers.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of hands-on engineering experience building products people use.
- Strong backend fundamentals, including API and schema design, SQL, query optimization, and performance awareness.
- Willingness to own product decisions and work as both product manager and engineer.
- Clear, empathetic communication and a focus on shipping impactful, high-quality work.
Nice to have
- Experience with systems and data at scale, or depth in Redis, Postgres, ElasticSearch, or OpenSearch.
- Experience optimizing serverless workloads on AWS, building LLM or agent product surfaces, or using Clay’s tech stack.
Pay
$170K – $300K (base salary)
Tools
SQL, Postgres, Redis, ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, AWS, React, Typescript
AI focus
Preferred experience building with LLMs or agents as a product surface; Clay's product includes agents.
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