Staff Software Engineer
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About Clay
Clay is a creative tool for growth. Our mission is to help businesses grow without huge investments in tooling or manual labor. Were already helping over 100000 people grow their business with Clay. From local pizza shops to enterprises like Anthropic and Notion our tool lets you instantly translate any idea that you have for growing your company into reality. Were looking for sharp lowego people to help us turn every businesss creative ideas into a reality. Read this article to see why Clay is an amazing place to work and explore our wall of love to learn more about the product.
Why is Clay the best place to work in New York
Customers love the product 100K users and growing)
Were growing a lot 6x YoY last year and 10x YoY the two years before that)
Incredible culture (our customers keep applying to work here)
Inperson work (beautiful office space in Flatiron)
Wellresourced (raised a Series B expansion in January 2025 from investors like Sequoia and Meritech)
Software Engineering Staff @ Clay
As a Staff Engineer youll play a key role in driving impact across the engineering organization. Youll leverage your technical expertise to shape strategic direction execute ambitious and complex projects and elevate the overall effectiveness of the team. Your impact will go beyond individual contributions youll shape architecture mentor engineers and drive process improvements to enhance efficiency scalability and the overall effectiveness of the engineering organization. Therell be no shortage of fun problems to explore and technical challenges to solve.
What Youll Do
Big picture thinking. Youll take a step back and see beyond the immediate details the current roadmap and the individual teams. Youll set technical strategy for the domains that you cover.
Executing. The projects you take on may be messier more ambiguous or more technically complex. You can bust through obstacles that block others but youll also often have to rely on larger groups of people and/or the trust and influence you have within the organization to succeed and scale your impact.
Leveling up the team. Youll influence engineers at the company via teaching mentoring reviewing designs and proposals and reviewing code. Youll also serve as a role model for the team around ownership technical designs & implementation and participation in the company culture.
What Youll Bring
You have 7 years of overall software development experience. Youve worked at startups and scaleups and are comfortable building for a continually growing level of scale.
You have experience in infrastructure. Youre comfortable spinning up new cloud resources from microservices to queues caches and DB clusters youre familiar with best practices when it comes to assembling the components of your system designs.
You have experience with observability tooling. Youve used logging profilers distributed tracing etc. to track down tricky bugs or performance issues in production systems.
You have strong product intuition. You have to ability think broadly and crossfunctionally around how your technical decisions will impact the enduser product experience both in terms of how existing features work as well as what new functionality could be unlocked.
You are an empathetic communicator.You express nuanced ideas clearly at different levels of abstraction for different audiences. In disagreements you prioritize curiosity over confrontation making sure everyone feels heard and understood. You avoid tying your ego to the systems youve built or are trying to build.
Youre familiar with our current tech stack or can learn unfamiliar technologies quickly.Our current tech stack is:
Typescript React Node.js Python
AWS services: Aurora (Postgres) Elasticache (Redis) Docker Elastic Container Registry (ECR) ECS (Fargate) Lambda OpenSearch
IaC: Terraform
Deployment tools: Github CircleCI Netlify Playwright
Observability tools: Cloudwatch Datadog Mezmo Grafana
Life @ Clay
Based out of a central office on 19th Street in Manhattans Flatiron District. We love the energy of inperson collaboration while also offering the flexibility to work from home when needed.
Competitive salary and role trajectory: Roles responsibilities and comp grow as we do
Health insurance: Fully funded high quality health dental & vision coverage (including 80100 therapy coverage)
Visa sponsorship: We get it its an arduous process but were not scared of it
Paid time off: We expect team members to take at least 3 weeks fullydisconnected per year with a flexible vacation policy beyond that
Free food: Free meals in office every day and unlimited snacks
Parental leave & fertility support: IVF fertility benefits egg freezing and 4 months of paid parental leave
Learn more about Clay and what its like to work with us right here!
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
