Software Engineer, Frontend

About Clay

Why is Clay the best place to work

• Customers love the product (100K users and growing)

• Were growing a lot (6x YoY last year and 10x YoY the two years before that)

• Incredible culture (our customers keep applying to work here)

• Well-resourced - We raised a $100M Series C in 2025 at a $3.1B valuation and are backed by world-class investors like Capital G (Google) Sequoia and Meritech

Read more about why people love working at Clay here and explore our wall of love to learn more about the product.

Software Engineer Frontend

Were looking for a frontend product engineer who is responsible for building out user-facing products that help our customers translate their growth ideas into reality. As a frontend engineer on these product teams you will play a key role in achieving Clays vision of being a creative tool to help businesses grow by building and improving the frontend experience. Youll wear both PM and engineering hats working with internal as well as external stakeholders to drive frontend features end to end from ideation to deployment. Therell be no shortage of fun problems to explore and technical challenges to solve in the React ecosystem.

What Youll Do

• Drive product strategy and execution. Youll 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 product features. Youll work on a fast pace team designing and building complex frontend features that deliver exceptional user experiences across web platforms.

• Up-level the frontend codebase. Negative maintenance is one of the core values at Clay. Youll contribute to the performance/reliability of the Clay frontend and help increase development velocity of other engineers through component architecture performance optimizations and best practices.

• Mentor and learn from other engineers. Youll help the team grow by mentoring other engineers in areas that youre strong return youll also learn from other engineers with different strengths.

What Youll 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 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.

• Youre familiar with our current tech stack or can learn unfamiliar technologies quickly. Our current tech stack is:

  • React Typescript Python

  • 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