Software Engineer (Prior Staff / Principal Experience)

The role

Technical leaders will drive business outcomes and impact across the engineering organization. You will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and execute complex projects to enhance efficiency and scalability.

What you will do

• Set technical strategy for covered domains
• Execute messy, ambiguous, or technically complex projects
• Bust through obstacles that block others
• Influence engineers via teaching and mentoring
• Review designs and proposals
• Review code
• Serve as a role model for ownership and technical implementation
• Participate in company culture

Required qualifications

• Previous roles with outsized impact
• Experience working at startups and scale-ups
• Ability to build for a continually growing level of scale
• Excellent product intuition
• Empathetic communicator
• Familiarity with Typescript, React, Node.js, or Python
• Familiarity with AWS services including Aurora, Elasticache, Docker, ECR, ECS, Lambda, or OpenSearch
• Familiarity with Terraform
• Familiarity with Github, CircleCI, Netlify, or Playwright
• Familiarity with Cloudwatch, Datadog, Mezmo, or Grafana

Benefits

• Work with world-class coaches specializing in creativity, management, and more

About the company

Clay is an AI company whose mission is to be the engine companies use to grow to their full potential. They provide data, infrastructure for personalized campaigns, and AI agents to help customers go to market.