Software Engineer, Full Stack

Clay; San Francisco, New York (CA, NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Clay is hiring a Software Engineer, Full Stack to build products that help self-serve and enterprise customers turn growth ideas into reality. You will blend PM and engineering work to drive features end-to-end—from ideation to deployment—on a culture that values creativity and experimentation.

You’ll contribute across the stack, mentor peers, and help raise the engineering bar while delivering high-quality, scalable software.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on engineering experience building world-class products.
• Experience driving and owning products end-to-end as a product-minded engineer.
• Empathetic communicator who can tailor messages for different audiences.
• Collaborative and capable of shipping high-quality features with cross-functional teams.
• Value diverse perspectives to build a better product.

Responsibilities

• Drive product strategy and execution with engineers, design, data science, and GTM teams.
• Design and build full stack features spanning backend and frontend.
• Improve codebase performance and reliability through negative maintenance.
• Mentor other engineers and learn from colleagues with varied strengths.

Skills

4+ years experience

Product manager mindset

Empathetic communicator

Collaborative

Diversity of perspectives

Tools

React

Typescript

Python

Node.js

AWS (Aurora, Elasticache, ECR, ECS, Lambda, OpenSearch)

Terraform

CircleCI

Netlify

Playwright

CloudWatch

Datadog

Mezzo

Job description

About Clay

Our mission is to help organizations turn any growth idea into reality.

We see growth as a creative practice, not a formula. Finding and reaching your best‑fit customers takes unique ideas and constant iteration. As AI makes execution faster and tactics easier to copy, creativity is the only lasting advantage. We're already helping thousands of customers — including Anthropic, Notion, Google, and Ramp — go to market with unique data, signals, and AI research.

In 2025, we raised a $100M Series C backed by world‑class investors including Sequoia, CapitalG, and First Round — and crossed $100M in revenue.

In 2026, we announced our second employee tender offer in 9 months at a new $5B valuation. We also launched a community equity round, for our customers, agency partners, and club members.

Some things to know about us:

• Our community includes 11,000+ customers, 150+ 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 for free 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!

Software Engineer, Full Stack @ Clay

We're looking for a Full Stack Engineer who is responsible for building out products that help our self‑serve and enterprise customers translate their growth ideas into reality. As a software engineer on these product teams, you will play a key role in achieving Clay’s vision of being a creative tool to help businesses grow by building and improving all parts of the product. You’ll wear both PM and engineering hats, working with internal as well as external stakeholders to drive features end to end — from ideation to deployment. There’ll be no shortage of fun problems to explore and technical challenges to solve.

What You’ll Do

• Drive product strategy and execution. You’ll work with a team of engineers and cross‑functional partners across design, data science, and GTM to define a product strategy and drive execution through conception, research, implementation, and maintenance.
• Design and build full stack features. You’ll work on a fast pace team designing and building complex features that span across both backend and frontend.
• Up‑level the codebase. Negative maintenance is one of the core values at Clay. You’ll contribute to the performance/reliability of the Clay product and help increase development velocity of other engineers.
• Mentor and learn from other engineers. You’ll help the team grow by mentoring other engineers in areas that you’re strong in. In return, you’ll also learn from other engineers with different strengths.

What You'll Bring

• You have a proven track record of execution. You have 4+ years of hands on engineering experience building world‑class products.
• You love being a product manager as well as an engineer. Our product engineers drive and own products from end to end.
• 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 love to collaborate with others to ship high quality, thoughtful features. You are able to talk to customers, think through multiple approaches, and work with our teammates to find the right solution for each problem. You care about craft and translate the solution into bug free, easily understandable code and raise the engineering bar for those around you.
• Having a diversity of perspectives is important to you. You believe that having people with different backgrounds and perspectives creates a better team and a more holistic product.
• You’re familiar with our current tech stack or can learn unfamiliar technologies quickly. Our current tech stack is:
  • React, Typescript, Python, Node.js
  • AWS services: Aurora (Postgres), Elasticache (Redis), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), ECS (Fargate), Lambda, OpenSearch
  • IaC: Terraform
  • Deployment tools: CircleCI, Netlify, Playwright
  • Observability tools: Cloudwatch, Datadog, Mezmo