Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Full Stack Software Engineer role sits squarely in the modern SaaS pattern of product-led growth supported by data, integrations, and increasingly AI-assisted workflows. Clay operates a platform used by both self-serve and enterprise customers, which typically means the engineering surface area spans onboarding, core product UX, and reliability concerns that show up when usage broadens across customer segments. The stated emphasis on building end-to-end features also signals a product-engineering model common in SaaS companies where engineers influence what gets built, not just how.
For a SaaS career, the role offers durable exposure to the systems that compound over time: shipping iteratively to production, improving performance and maintainability, and balancing customer needs with platform constraints. Working across frontend and backend in a cloud environment builds transferable judgment around release quality, observability, and the tradeoffs between speed and long-term operability, all central to scaling subscription software.
This is best suited to an engineer who prefers broad ownership and frequent cross-functional collaboration, and who is comfortable moving between product problem framing and implementation details. It fits someone who enjoys improving existing systems as much as delivering new capabilities, and who wants their craft to be visible in both user experience and backend robustness.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About Clay
Our mission is to help organizations turn any growth idea into reality.
We see growth as a creative practice, not a formula. Finding and reaching your best-fit customers takes unique ideas and constant iteration. As AI makes execution faster and tactics easier to copy, creativity is the only lasting advantage. We're already helping thousands of customers — including Anthropic, Notion, Google, and Ramp — go to market with unique data, signals, and AI research.
In 2025, we raised a $100M Series C backed by world-class investors including Sequoia, CapitalG, and First Round — and crossed $100M in revenue.
In 2026, we announced our second employee tender offer in 9 months at a new $5B valuation. We also launched a community equity round, for our customers, agency partners, and club members.
Some things to know about us:
Our community includes 11,000+ customers, 150+ integration partners, 125+ agencies, 50+ Clay clubs, and 30k members on Slack.
Our cultureis unique inside and outside of work. Our team members are also DJs, activists, writers, clowns, marathoners, skydivers, psychedelic therapists, social workers, and more.
All employees can work for free with world-class coaches who specialize in creativity, management, and more.
Our operating principles — including negative maintenance and non-attached action — guide our work. Read more about them here.
Read about us in the NYT, Forbes, First Round Review, and more.
Hear from our employees directly on our Glassdoor page!
Software Engineer, Full Stack @ Clay
We're looking for a Full Stack Engineer who is responsible for building out products that help our self-serve and enterprise customers translate their growth ideas into reality. As a software engineer on these product teams, you will play a key role in achieving Clay’s vision of being a creative tool to help businesses grow by building and improving all parts of the product. You’ll wear both PM and engineering hats, working with internal as well as external stakeholders to drive features end to end — from ideation to deployment. There’ll be no shortage of fun problems to explore and technical challenges to solve.
What You’ll Do
Drive product strategy and execution. You’ll work with a team of engineers and cross-functional partners across design, data science, and GTM to define a product strategy and drive execution through conception, research, implementation, and maintenance.
Design and build full stack features. You’ll work on a fast pace team designing and building complex features that span across both backend and frontend.
Up-level the codebase. Negative maintenance is one of the core values at Clay. You’ll contribute to the performance/reliability of the Clay product and help increase development velocity of other engineers.
Mentor and learn from other engineers. You’ll help the team grow by mentoring other engineers in areas that you’re strong in. In return, you’ll also learn from other engineers with different strengths.
What You'll Bring
You have a proven track record of execution. You have 4+ years of hands on engineering experience building world-class products.
You love being a product manager as well as an engineer. Our product engineers drive and own products from end to end.
You are an empathetic communicator. You express nuanced ideas clearly at different levels of abstraction for different audiences. In disagreements, you prioritize curiosity over confrontation, making sure everyone feels heard and understood.
You love to collaborate with others to ship high quality, thoughtful features. You are able to talk to customers, think through multiple approaches, and work with our teammates to find the right solution for each problem. You care about craft and translate the solution into bug free, easily understandable code and raise the engineering bar for those around you.
Having a diversity of perspectives is important to you. You believe that having people with different backgrounds and perspectives creates a better team and a more holistic product.
You’re familiar with our current tech stack or can learn unfamiliar technologies quickly. Our current tech stack is:
React, Typescript, Python, Node.js
AWS services: Aurora (Postgres), Elasticache (Redis), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), ECS (Fargate), Lambda, OpenSearch
IaC: Terraform
Deployment tools: CircleCI, Netlify, Playwright
Observability tools: Cloudwatch, Datadog, Mezmo
