Senior Staff Engineer, Backend

About us

At Clarify, we aim to empower high-impact companies to build better customer relationships. We're creating the next-generation CRM for modern revenue teams. For 20 years, we've been using software built for how the world worked last century, despite how our businesses have evolved.

We're a team of founders who've built and sold companies together, alums from Atlassian, Microsoft, Amplitude, Branch, mParticle, and Ramp, among others. We're building a generational company and just getting started. Join our mission to revolutionize the world's largest software category.

Clarify is a remote-first company with 6 hours of overlap on PST. We spend one week a quarter together in person as a team.

About the role

You'll join our engineering team as a Senior Staff Engineer, helping establish the foundation of our customer platform. You will work closely with our founders on zero-to-one experiences, make foundational technical design decisions, and own a large engineering scope. We're looking for someone who loves delivering great customer experiences and has a passion for building scalable platforms.

What you’ll do

  • Design and develop high-quality product software, drive the architectural decision, and full product delivery life cycle for new platform capabilities.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver product features on time.

  • Work with the team to build data integrations with various tools in the ecosystem.

  • Partner with our founders on the strategy of our customer-facing experiences.

  • Write technical documentation and contribute to internal processes.

  • Have high ownership over technical decisions and direction.

  • Help educate and guide all future engineers in our technology stack.

  • Establish standards and best practices for engineering.

Your background

  • 8+ years of experience building scalable platforms.

  • Good understanding of database internals and experience in schema design.

  • Experience working on the AWS platform.

  • Excitement for integrating the latest LLMs into products.

  • Hands-on experience with data pipeline technologies: Spark, Flink, etc.

  • Proficient with our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Next.js, and Postgres.

  • Pragmatic problem solver with a focus on delivering impact.

  • Demonstrated personal and professional maturity.

  • Experience taking software from ideation to production.

  • Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

  • Startup experience or a desire to build your own company one day.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary based on experience and location

  • Meaningful equity in an early-stage startup

  • $200/mo internet and cell phone stipend

  • $200/mo wellness stipend

  • 3% 401k match*

  • $1k/mo healthcare stipend*

*US-based employees

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