Software Engineer, (Prior Staff / Principal Experience)
About The Position
Clay is a company that helps organizations turn growth ideas into reality, viewing growth as a creative practice. They support thousands of customers, including major companies like Anthropic, Notion, Google, and Ramp. In 2025, Clay raised $100M in Series C funding and crossed $100M in revenue. They also announced a second employee tender offer at a $5B valuation and launched a community equity round. Clay's community includes over 11,000 customers, 150+ integration partners, 125+ agencies, 50+ Clay clubs, and 30,000 members on Slack. The company culture is diverse, with team members pursuing various interests outside of work. All employees have access to world-class coaches specializing in creativity, management, and more. Clay's work is guided by operating principles such as negative maintenance and non-attached action. The company has been featured in publications like the NYT, Forbes, and First Round Review, and employee testimonials can be found on their Glassdoor page.
Requirements
- Had an outsized impact in previous roles (e.g., creating leverage for an entire EPD organization, building foundational systems that scale, launching new products/businesses generating meaningful revenue, or bringing deep frontend and UX expertise to create exceptional product experiences).
- Worked at startups and scale-ups, and are comfortable building for a continually growing level of scale.
- Excellent product intuition, with the ability to think broadly and cross-functionally around how technical decisions will impact the end-user product experience.
- Empathetic communicator, expressing nuanced ideas clearly at different levels of abstraction for different audiences.
- Prioritize curiosity over confrontation in disagreements, ensuring everyone feels heard and understood.
- Avoid tying ego to the systems built or being built.
- Familiarity with the current tech stack (Typescript, React, Node.js, Python, AWS services, IaC: Terraform, Deployment tools: Github, CircleCI, Netlify, Playwright, Observability tools: Cloudwatch, Datadog, Mezmo, Grafana) or the ability to learn unfamiliar technologies quickly.
Responsibilities
- Leverage technical expertise to shape strategic direction, execute ambitious and complex projects, and elevate the overall effectiveness of the engineering organization.
- Shape architecture, mentor engineers, and drive process improvements to enhance efficiency, scalability, and the overall effectiveness of the engineering organization.
- Take a step back and see beyond the immediate details, the current roadmap, and the individual teams to set the technical strategy for the domains covered.
- Take on projects that may be messier, more ambiguous, or more technically complex, busting through obstacles that block others.
- Rely on larger groups of people and/or the trust and influence within the organization to succeed and scale impact.
- Influence engineers at the company via teaching, mentoring, reviewing designs and proposals, and reviewing code.
- Serve as a role model for the team around ownership, technical designs & implementation, and participation in the company culture.
Benefits
- Access to world-class coaches who specialize in creativity, management, and more.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
