Forward Deployed Engineer

About Clay

Clay is a new type of tool that brings together the best parts of spreadsheets, coding & simple automation. Quickly connect your apps and code into automated workflows, build useful tools, enrich data sets and more!

Position

• Shape our shipping standards. With a strong focus on delivering exceptional software to our users, you'll have the opportunity to determine, shape and refine high-quality creative solutions 
• Build for scale. As part of our strength lies in converting custom solutions into key features, you'll get to prototype, design and ship functions that become core to our product 
• Collaborate directly with execs at fast growing startups. You'll work closely to design new functions and software solutions with Clay's early users at rapidly growing startups 
• Design & ship core features. Spec, implement and maintain core features and infrastructure. Given the size of the team, everyone is touching all parts of the stack and has lots of responsibility
• Collaborate & learn. You'll partner with the rest of our team, communicate openly, give and receive thoughtful feedback, and have a chance to learn from people who excel in their areas of expertise
• Take ownership. We're focused on building a high-trust, ownership focused environment where everyone aims to define what they think is most important to work on, and drive initiatives forward

Your qualification

• Demonstrated ability to ship high-quality, well-tested features. A Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science, or 4+ years working as a software engineer in production environments
• Familiarity with our stack. Our stack is currently Node, React and Redux. We hope you will be proficient in JavaScript (Node, React, vanilla JS), or have a demonstrated knowledge of another general purpose programming language and the ability to learn quickly
• Creative problem solving. Prior experience in high-level system design and solution prototyping to shipping product, or a deep curiosity for figuring out technical hacks to personal pain points
• Excellent written communication skills & a design-minded consideration of abstractions. A big part of simplifying software development is choosing the right abstractions & communicating them effectively. In this role, you'll be responsible for designing and crafting internal and external systems and APIs that are elegant and intuitive to use 
• Keeping the big picture in mind. We're fans of engineers who think about all aspects of the product, and keep UX and business objectives in mind as they're building

Will be a plus

• Experience working with systems & data at scale. May be building large-scale high-performance data pipelines, event ingestion systems, or generally working with larger production systems
• Additional proficiency and/or experience with: Linux, containers & cloud environments such as AWS and Google Cloud; Kafka, Pubsub & SQS style architectures; Go, Rust, C++, or Clojure, as we explore incorporating more robust systems for our backend

What we offer

• Competitive salary and role trajectory. Roles, responsibilities, and comp grow as we do
• Health insurance. Fully funded, high quality health, dental & vision coverage
• Visa sponsorship. We get it - it's an arduous process, but we're not scared of it
• Flexible schedules and paid time off. We ask team members to take at least 2 weeks fully-disconnected per year, with a flexible vacation policy beyond that 
• Mental health. We'll currently building a plan to help you find coaches, mentors & mental-health services 
• Annual company retreats. This past year we took our roadmap exploration to Costa Rica
• Personal comfort. Order whatever equipment you think will help you work more enjoyably
• Remote work. Though we prefer people being in-person