Senior Backend Software Engineer

Role Overview

Join Clubhouse as a Senior Backend Software Engineer to work on rapid product explorations, app quality, and monetization features for Clubhouse Plus users. You’ll collaborate with founders, Product, Design, and Data Science to ship launches and improve backend reliability.

Key Missions

• Collaborate cross-functionally to solve user problems and ship new product launches.
• Iteratively improve a legacy codebase while maintaining long-term maintainability.
• Build and ship experiments to improve monetization, host experiences, content understanding, and personalization for millions of users.

Responsibilities

• Connect backend delivery to measurable business impact.
• Partner closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Data Scientists to shape hypotheses and act on results.
• Scope and deliver MVPs to learn early, gather data, and iterate.
• Design and evolve backend systems with a platform mindset (API contracts, shared infrastructure, distributed systems patterns).
• Think at a systems level: performance, scaling, edge cases, and data implications for experiments/features.

Requirements

• 4–5+ years of backend development experience.
• Strong foundation in Python or Java.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases, including PostgreSQL and DynamoDB.

Nice-to-Haves / Additional Strengths (from description)

• Product mindset and comfort tying technical decisions to user growth, engagement, and experiment outcomes.
• Ability to balance speed vs reliability and maintain trustworthy experiment results.
• Experience evolving legacy systems while balancing short-term velocity with maintainability.
• Collaborative, low-ego, inclusive team approach; willingness to seek the best solution regardless of ownership.