💻 Software Engineer, Backend (Senior)
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Requirements
• You are experienced and curious. You have 4–5 years of backend development experience with a strong foundation in languages like Python or Java, and experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB). You’re eager to deepen your technical craft and broaden your systems thinking. • You think at a systems level. You understand the tradeoffs in evolving a legacy codebase — balancing short-term velocity with long-term maintainability. You map out edge cases for experiments and features, considering performance, scaling, and data implications. You appreciate the practical cost of complexity and advocate for the simplest solution that achieves the intended outcome. • You think at a systems level. • You build with a platform mindset. You think about API contracts, shared infrastructure, and distributed systems patterns as first-class concerns — even when shipping product features. You can identify when a product need is better served by investing in a shared service versus a one-off implementation, and you balance that tension pragmatically. • You build with a platform mindset. • You have a product mindset. You connect backend work to measurable business impact. You think about how experiments tie to user growth and engagement, and you balance technical decisions with product outcomes. • You move quickly and iterate. You can scope and deliver MVPs to learn early, gather data, and iterate. You know how to balance speed and reliability so experiment results are trustworthy. • You move quickly and iterate. • You work well cross-functionally. You enjoy partnering closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Data Scientists to shape hypotheses and act on results. You communicate tradeoffs clearly and can reframe constraints as opportunities. • You work well cross-functionally. • You’re collaborative and low ego. You evolve your thinking based on new data, seek the best solution regardless of ownership, and contribute to a positive, inclusive team culture. • You’re collaborative and low ego.
Responsibilities
• Build and ship experiments that improve monetization, host experiences, content understanding, and personalization for millions of users. • Build and ship experiments • Design shared services and platform capabilities—like recommendation infrastructure and content signals—that accelerate product development across squads. • Design shared services and platform capabilities— • Evolve our backend systems — balancing quick iteration with code health and scalability. • Evolve our backend systems • Collaborate closely with engineers, PMs, designers, and data scientists to shape and deliver high-impact features. • Collaborate closely • Instrument and analyze experiments to inform the next iteration. • Instrument and analyze experiments • Advocate for simplicity — making thoughtful tradeoffs to ensure solutions are maintainable and measurable. • Advocate for simplicity • Create something meaningful. Social products allow people to connect in ways that were never before possible. At Clubhouse, you’ll be figuring out something entirely new for the world—a positive product that brings people’s voices together to help everyone have a life filled with great friendships. • Create something meaningful
Benefits
• What you can expect • What you can expect • As a member of our team, you can expect competitive base pay, meaningful ownership in the company, great benefits, cash perks and stipends, and constant advancement opportunities. • More importantly, we will invest deeply in your development and work every day to ensure it is the best professional experience of your life. • Alpha is a product studio focused on the intersection of AI and consumer social – backed by a16z and many of the top investors in the world. Our goal is to create social products that we use, that our friends use, and that have the potential to reach billions of people. • Alpha is a product studio focused on the intersection of AI and consumer social – backed by a16z and many of the top investors in the world. • Clubhouse was our first app, and we’ve been quietly growing that while building our next set of products. We have years of runway, millions of users, and find ourselves at a very interesting time, where AI is making entirely new things possible with voice. • Clubhouse was our first app, and we’ve been quietly growing that while building our next set of products. • If you are a talented builder who’s interested in joining us, we’d love to talk.