[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @Clubhouse

Role Description

We’re hiring a Senior Backend Engineer (IC4) for our Growth squad on Clubhouse. Our mission is to get people into a room with their friends: more new users, more returning users and more first connections. We get there through fast experiments across invites, notifications, onboarding, reactivation and ranking. You’ll ship your first experiment within your first month.

You’ll work closely with our founders, product, design and data science to:

• Solve a dynamic set of user problems around the journeys of new and returning users
• Ship experiments at speed
• Improve our ranking algorithms and personalization models for content discovery and friend suggestions
• Make every notification count with better targeting and frequency caps
• Iteratively improve a legacy codebase while keeping an eye on long-term maintainability

We are a fully remote company with a strong commitment to ensuring you will do great work here and have the best professional experience of your life. This role is open to candidates across the U.S.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of production backend experience in Python (or similar) with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB)
• Experience building growth systems
• Experience shipping notification targeting, invites, onboarding or reactivation flows for a consumer product
• Product mindset, tying backend work to growth and engagement metrics
• Ability to scope small MVPs, ship them behind a flag and read the results
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product Managers, Designers and Data Scientists
• Collaborative and low-ego attitude, evolving thinking based on new data
• Experience using AI coding tools

Requirements

• Ability to move quickly and iterate
• Comfortable working in a mature codebase and improving it as you go
• Ability to communicate tradeoffs clearly in writing
• Advocate for simplicity and thoughtful tradeoffs for maintainable solutions
• Own the experiment loop, making tests faster and safer to run

Benefits

• Opportunity to build and ship experiments that reach millions of users
• Collaborate closely with engineers, PMs, designers and data scientists
• Work on social products that connect people in meaningful ways