Software Engineer, Backend
Clay
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
ElasticSearchNode.jsPostgresRedisSQL
About the role
- Perform comprehensive analyses of our systems to identify and address performance bottlenecks.
- Create and monitor meaningful performance metrics for various components of our services
- Advise other teams within engineering on scalable and performant feature design and implementation
- Address critical scalability challenges such as sharding Postgres and Redis, splitting ECS tasks into multiple services to scale independently, and addressing Node event loop blockages.
Requirements
- A results-oriented mindset and a bias toward impact
- Experience in API latency optimization
- Experience with SQL and related technologies, preferably Postgres
- Experience in a role with a focus on performance aspects
- Experience in query optimization and schema design for relational databases and distributed search engines
- Expertise in any of the following: Redis, Postgres, ElasticSearch, or Opensearch
Benefits
- Customers love the product (100K+ users and growing)
- Incredible culture (our customers keep applying to work here)
- Well-resourced - We raised a $100M Series C in 2025 at a $3.1B valuation and are backed by world-class investors like Capital G (Google), Sequoia and Meritech
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
API latency optimizationquery optimizationschema designperformance metricsscalability challengesshardingdistributed search engines
Soft skills
results-oriented mindsetbias toward impact