Senior Software Engineer | Tech Leadership & Architecture

Clay; New York (NY); On-site; USD 240,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Clay in New York seeks a senior software engineer to help drive business outcomes across the engineering organization. You’ll shape architectural direction, own ambitious projects, mentor engineers, and raise the team's overall effectiveness.

The role offers influence across product engineering, platform engineering, security, and DevEx. You’ll work with a modern stack including TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python on AWS (Aurora, Redis), Docker, Terraform, and deploy with GitHub, CircleCI,

Qualifications

• Experience shaping technical strategy and architecture across domains.
• Proven mentoring and cross‑functional leadership ability.
• Strong collaboration skills and user‑centred thinking.
• Comfort with a broad modern stack and rapid learning of new tech.

Responsibilities

• Define technical direction for the domains you cover.
• Lead complex projects and drive architecture decisions.
• Mentor engineers, review designs, and promote ownership.
• Improve efficiency, scalability, and engineering effectiveness.

Skills

Big picture thinking

Executing in ambiguity

Mentoring engineers

Empathetic communicator

Tools

TypeScript

React

Node.js

Python

AWS Aurora/Postgres

Redis (ElastiCache)

Docker

Terraform

GitHub

CircleCI

Netlify

Playwright

OpenSearch

ECR/ECS (Fargate)

CloudWatch

Datadog

Grafana

Job description

Clay in New York seeks a senior software engineer to help drive business outcomes across the engineering organization. You’ll shape architectural direction, own ambitious projects, mentor engineers, and raise the team's overall effectiveness.

The role offers influence across product engineering, platform engineering, security, and DevEx. You’ll work with a modern stack including TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python on AWS (Aurora, Redis), Docker, Terraform, and deploy with GitHub, CircleCI,