[Hiring] Founding Senior Software Engineer @Clipbook

Role Description

You'd be a key contributor at Clipbook — joining a small but mighty engineering team with engineers from Meta, Stripe, and AWS. You'll have the opportunity to develop new features and capabilities, and what you build will ship to 200+ customers quickly.

• Architect & build core systems.
• Drive key decisions across our stack and own feature development end-to-end.
• Integrate AI into real-world workflows.
• Put LLMs and ML models into production for real workflows: RAG pipelines, embeddings, prompt execution, agentic systems, fine-tuned models.
• Design systems that scale.
• Build systems that will hold up as we grow 10x, while being practical about what to invest in now vs. what can wait.
• Develop performant APIs and services.
• Create robust interfaces and internal services that power our product end-to-end, ensuring reliability, security, and a seamless experience for customers.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building and scaling production systems.
• Strong across backend fundamentals (services, data models, distributed systems), with deeper expertise in one or more areas — and a desire to keep expanding your breadth over time.
• Genuine excitement to build quickly & ship fast.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and CI/CD.
• Familiarity with AWS/GCP, containerization (Docker/K8s), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent communication skills.

Requirements

• Technical Areas Where Depth Matters (one or more):
• Data Engineering: Spark, Kafka, Flink, BigQuery, streaming pipelines, ETL at scale.
• Distributed Systems: High-volume scaling, fault tolerance, eventual consistency.
• AI/ML: LLMs in production, RAG, embeddings, fine-tuning, inference optimization.
• Backend: Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, high-concurrency systems.