Senior Backend Engineer, Growth

clubhouse; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote in US

Job summary

clubhouse is seeking a backend engineer to build backend features and run product experiments in a fully remote role across the United States. You will work on acquisition, onboarding, engagement, and content discovery, partnering with product, design, data science, engineering, and leadership to measure results and iterate quickly.

The role emphasizes shipping experiments, improving content ranking, and implementing guardrails, with focus on reliability, scale, and collaboration across

Qualifications

• 4+ years of production backend engineering experience using Python or a similar language.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship experiments across invitations, notifications, onboarding, reactivation, and ranking.
• Improve ranking and personalization for content discovery and friend recommendations.
• Build better notification targeting and frequency controls.
• Instrument experiments with exposure tracking and guardrail metrics, analyze outcomes, and use findings to shape follow-up work.
• Improve backend systems and an established codebase while balancing delivery speed, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Work with engineers and cross-functional partners to develop hypotheses, deliver features, and make experimentation faster and safer.

Skills

Python

SQL/NoSQL

Experimentation & Metrics

Code Collaboration

Tools

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Feature Flags

AI Coding Tools

Job description

Role overview

Build backend features and run product experiments that help people discover and reconnect with friends in a social audio product. The work spans acquisition, onboarding, engagement, and content discovery, with a focus on measuring results and iterating quickly. You’ll partner with product, design, data science, engineering, and company leadership; the position is fully remote and open to candidates in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship experiments across invitations, notifications, onboarding, reactivation, and ranking.
• Improve ranking and personalization for content discovery and friend recommendations.
• Build better notification targeting and frequency controls.
• Instrument experiments with exposure tracking and guardrail metrics, analyze outcomes, and use findings to shape follow-up work.
• Improve backend systems and an established codebase while balancing delivery speed, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Work with engineers and cross-functional partners to develop hypotheses, deliver features, and make experimentation faster and safer.

Requirements

• At least four years of production backend engineering experience using Python or a similar language.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases; examples in the source include PostgreSQL and DynamoDB.
• Experience shipping consumer-product growth systems such as notifications, invitations, onboarding, or reactivation flows.
• Product judgment: connect engineering work to growth and engagement measures, propose experiments, and make decisions based on results.
• Ability to scope small releases, use feature flags, and evaluate experiments with reliable instrumentation and guardrails.
• Strong written communication and collaborative working style, including comfort changing direction based on data and using AI coding tools in daily work.

Benefits and work setup

• Fully remote role open to candidates across the United States.