Software Engineer, Backend (Product)
Build and own backend systems powering AI-driven growth workflows, APIs, and data pipelines in a product where engineering and product decisions are one.
- Compensation
- $170K–$300K / yr
- Location
- New York
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Experience working with systems and data at scale — large-scale high-performance data pipelines, event ingestion systems, or larger production systems generally.
- Depth in any of: Redis, Postgres, ElasticSearch, or OpenSearch.
- Advanced proficiency optimizing serverless workloads on AWS.
- Experience building with LLMs or agents as a product surface, not just a tool.
- Experience with our current tech stack:
Full description
About Clay
AI is unleashing the biggest wave of company creation in history. Clay's mission is to be the engine those companies use to grow to their full potential.
Clay predicts the next best action for your business and then helps you take it. We started by aggregating the best data for B2B companies. Then, we built the infrastructure to run any personalized campaign on top of it, including emails, ads, landing pages, and workflows that make reps more productive. Now, we're building agents that can help grow your company for you. We're already helping thousands of customers — including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Visa — go to market with unique data, signals, and AI research.
In 2026, we raised a $115M Series D at $7.1B Valuation led by Wellington — and are on track to cross $200M in revenue this quarter. We also launched a $1M Scholarship fund for GTME Education.
Some things to know about us:
- Our community includes 17,000+ customers, 200+ integration partners, 125+ agencies, 50+ Clay clubs, and 30k members on Slack.
- Our culture is unique inside and outside of work. Our team members are also DJs, activists, writers, clowns, marathoners, skydivers, psychedelic therapists, social workers, and more.
- All employees can work with world-class coaches who specialize in creativity, management, and more.
- Our operating principles — including negative maintenance and non-attached action — guide our work. Read more about them here.
- Read about us in the NYT, Forbes, First Round Review, and more.
Hear from our employees directly on our Glassdoor page!
The Role:
We're looking for a backend product engineer to own the systems behind the parts of Clay our customers use every day. Clay is a product where the backend is the product — enrichment, signals, workflows, and agents are all surfaces where the engineering decision and the product decision are the same decision.
You'll own a surface end to end: deciding what to build with your design and GTM partners, shipping it quickly, watching real customers use it, and then making it faster, more reliable, and more capable. You'll wear both a PM hat and an engineering hat. There'll be no shortage of fun problems to explore and technical challenges to solve.
What You'll Do
- Own a product surface end to end. From problem definition through shipped, measured outcome. You'll help decide what gets built, not just how.
- Wear the PM hat. Scope your own work with design, data science, and GTM partners. Write the spec, cut what doesn't matter, make the call, and defend it.