About Clay
Clay is a creative tool for growth. Our mission is to help businesses grow - without huge investments in tooling or manual labor. We're already helping over 100,000 people grow their business with Clay. From local pizza shops to enterprises like Anthropic and Notion, our tool lets you instantly translate any idea that you have for growing your company into reality. We're looking for sharp, low-ego people to help us turn every business's creative ideas into a reality. Check out our wall of love to learn more about the product.
Why is Clay the best place to work in New York?
- Customers love the product (100K+ users and growing)
- We're growing a lot (10x YoY for the past two years)
- Incredible culture (our customers keep applying to work here)
- In-person work (beautiful office space in Flatiron)
- Well-resourced (raised a Series B in June 2024 from investors like Sequoia and Meritech)
Software Engineering, Data Platform @ Clay
At Clay, our Data Team is powers our core promise of having the best data in the world by aggregating every data source available and using AI to get new data points in real time. This team is responsible for the underlying system that allows us to integrate any new data provider in hours as well as AI feature like Claygent (an AI Webscraper agent that can get any data points from a website) and Lookalikes which find similar companies/people. This team is at the forefront of applied AI and is looking at building the next-gen of our products to power use cases like "Find every company that is not SOC II compliant", or using a variety of AI models to craft a personalized email message.
As an early engineer, you'll be part of a core team that's reimagining computing from the ground up surrounded by an exceptional team of product-minded designers and developers. There will be no shortage of fun conceptual and technical challenges to explore, build and scale.
What You'll Do
- Design & ship core features. Spec, implement and maintain core features and infrastructure. Given the size of the team, everyone is touching all parts of the stack and has lots of responsibility.
- Collaborate & learn. You'll partner with the rest of our team, communicate openly, give and receive thoughtful feedback, and have a chance to learn from people who excel in their areas of expertise.
- Take ownership. We're focused on building a high-trust, ownership focused environment where everyone aims to define what they think is most important to work on, and drive initiatives forward.
What You'll Bring
- Demonstrated ability to ship high-quality, well-tested features. You've got a Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science, or 4+ years working as a software engineer in production environments.
- Familiarity with our stack. Our stack is currently Node, and React. We hope you will be proficient in JavaScript (Node, React, vanilla JS), or have a demonstrated knowledge of another general purpose programming language and the ability to quickly learn.
- Excellent written communication skills & a design-minded consideration of abstractions. A big part of simplifying software development is choosing the right abstractions & communicating them effectively. In this role, you'll be responsible for designing and crafting internal and external systems and APIs that are elegant and intuitive to use.
- Keeping the big picture in mind. We're fans of engineers who think about all aspects of the product, and keep UX and business objectives in mind as they're building.
Nice To Haves
- Diversity of perspectives and interests. We hope to build a team that is curious, and open-minded.
- Experience working with systems & data at scale. May be building large-scale high-performance data pipelines, event ingestion systems, or generally working with larger production systems
- Additional proficiency and/or experience with: Linux, containers & cloud environments such as AWS and Google Cloud; Kafka, Pubsub & SQS style architectures; Go, Rust, C++, or Clojure, as we explore incorporating more robust systems for our backend
Life @ Clay
Based out of a central office on 19th Street in Manhattan's Flatiron District. We love the energy of in-person collaboration while also offering the flexibility to work from home when needed.
- Competitive salary and role trajectory: Roles, responsibilities, and comp grow as we do
- Health insurance: Fully funded, high quality health, dental & vision coverage (including 80-100% therapy coverage)
- Visa sponsorship: We get it - it's an arduous process, but we're not scared of it
- Paid time off: We expect team members to take at least 3 weeks fully-disconnected per year, with a flexible vacation policy beyond that
- Free lunch: Lunch is provided in office every day
- Parental leave & fertility support: IVF fertility benefits, egg freezing, and 4 months of paid parental leave
Learn more about Clay and what it's like to work with us right here!
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What We Do
We are building a new type of data workflow tool that allows any team to find the right data, craft custom workflows, and automate their go-to-market strategy. We like to think of Clay as a composable canvas that unlocks power and creativity for growth-focused teams.
Building a powerful yet easy-to-use tool that enables complex data aggregation, transformation, and automation is no easy feat. It takes a huge amount of creativity, discipline and attention to detail. It also takes a team of brilliant minds, collaborating, supporting and learning from each other.
Why Work With Us
Our team is a vibrant mix of designers, engineers, and GTM experts. We're also aspiring DJs, writers, social workers & more. We believe the right candidate brings a unique perspective, with no pre-set mold for success—just an exciting opportunity to thrive together!
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Based out of a central office on 19th Street in Manhattan's Flatiron District. We love the energy of in-person collaboration while also offering the flexibility to work from home when needed!
