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title: 'Founding Senior Software Engineer (Portugal) at Clipbook'
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# Founding Senior Software Engineer (Portugal) at Clipbook

- **Company:** Clipbook
- **Location:** Portugal
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-10-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clipbook/4407d50e-afd0-443c-bf6e-1469aac80376

## Job description

## About Clipbook

Clipbook’s mission: reinvent how leaders listen to and engage with the world of information that comes out every day. Our platform ingests, comprehends, summarizes, and surfaces insights and actions from traditional news, TV, podcast, social media, and internet data at scale—across text, audio, and video in real time. We launched in 2023 and have grown to 200+ clients including BCG, Weber Shandwick, and dozens of government agencies. We bootstrapped to seven-figures in ARR before raising a $3.3M seed round (co-led by Mark Cuban and a host of prominent angels and VCs). Our founding team has backgrounds at BCG, Bain, Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, the White House, and Congress, and has previously built startups backed by Sequoia, Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Coatue, and NFX.

## The Role

You'd be a key contributor at Clipbook — joining a small but mighty engineering team with engineers from Meta, Stripe, and AWS. You'll have the opportunity to develop new features and capabilities, and what you build will ship to 200+ customers quickly.

## What You'll Do

- Architect & build core systems. Drive key decisions across our stack and own feature development end-to-end.
- Integrate AI into real-world workflows. Put LLMs and ML models into production for real workflows: RAG pipelines, embeddings, prompt execution, agentic systems, fine-tuned models.
- Design systems that scale. Build systems that will hold up as we grow 10x, while being practical about what to invest in now vs. what can wait.
- Develop performant APIs and services. Create robust interfaces and internal services that power our product end-to-end, ensuring reliability, security, and a seamless experience for customers.

## What We're Looking For

- 3+ years building and scaling production systems. Strong across backend fundamentals (services, data models, distributed systems), with deeper expertise in one or more areas — and a desire to keep expanding your breadth over time.
- Genuine excitement to build quickly & ship fast. We care about getting things into users' hands and iterating from there.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and CI/CD. Familiarity with AWS/GCP, containerization (Docker/K8s), and CI/CD pipelines.
- Excellent communication skills

Technical Areas Where Depth Matters (one or more)

- Data Engineering: Spark, Kafka, Flink, BigQuery, streaming pipelines, ETL at scale.
- Distributed Systems: High-volume scaling, fault tolerance, eventual consistency.
- AI/ML: LLMs in production, RAG, embeddings, fine-tuning, inference optimization.
- Backend: Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, high-concurrency systems.

## About Clipbook

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Clipbook is an AI-powered research and analysis platform that helps communications and corporate affairs teams monitor, aggregate, and analyze data from over 1 million media, social, and policy sources.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage – raised $3.4M total, latest $3.3M seed round)
- **Headquarters**: Washington, DC, with in-person hubs in San Francisco and New York
- **Founded**: 2022 (per CB Insights) or 2023 (per company careers page) – conflicting reports
- **Founders**: Adam Joseph (Founder & CEO) [linkedin.com]

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI-powered media intelligence / Public Relations & Communications software
- **Target customers**: B2B – Enterprise communications teams, government agencies, public affairs firms, and Fortune 500 companies
- **Mission/purpose**: To become the foundational AI layer for modern communications leaders, analyzing multimodal external data to deliver real-time and predictive intelligence for high-stakes decisions [clipbook.com/careers]

## Products & Services
- **Media Monitoring**: Real‑time tracking across news, TV, radio, social media, podcasts, and policy sources, with agentic AI filtering noise and surfacing actionable moments [clipbook.com]
- **AI Briefings & Alerts**: Automated, context‑rich briefings and instant alerts when a story breaks or a policy shift occurs [clipbook.com]
- **Analysis & Reporting**: Natural‑language analytics on readership, share of voice, sentiment, earned media value, and engagement metrics; AI data visualization engine [clipbook.com]
- **Media Database**: Searchable, auto‑tagged archive of all media, policy, and social content, organized by stakeholder, topic, or region [clipbook.com]

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $3.4M; latest seed round $3.3M (closed ~February 2025) [cbinsights.com]
- **Notable Investors**: Mark Cuban, Commonweal Ventures, Carpenter Capital [linkedin.com, cbinsights.com]
- **Growth Signals**: 250+ clients; 47 employees (+326.7% year‑over‑year); LinkedIn followers grew +251.9% year‑over‑year; active job postings increased 150% month‑over‑month [linkedin.com]

## Competitive Advantages
- Agentic AI that goes beyond keyword tracking to predictively surface the most relevant, high‑impact developments
- Covers an unusually broad set of sources (1M+ including policy) tailored specifically for communications and public affairs teams
- Strong talent density with hires from BCG, Stripe, The White House, and leading political campaigns [clipbook.com/careers]
- Trusted by 250+ enterprises, firms, and government agencies

## Strategic Focus
- Establishing Clipbook as “the first AI system of record for communications” – i.e., the central intelligence layer for corporate affairs decision‑making
- Automating research and analysis to save teams hundreds of hours of manual work, while providing predictive insights that inform high‑stakes decisions
- Scaling the team rapidly (5+ open roles in engineering, GTM, and client success) across three US hubs [clipbook.com/careers]

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: “One Team” ethos with shared goals; customer centricity; ownership & growth mindset; hunger & hustle (bias toward output and action) [clipbook.com/careers]
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: Full‑time in‑person roles in San Francisco, Washington DC, or New York [clipbook.com/careers]
- **Notable perks/engineering**: Founding engineer roles offer the chance to shape the core AI platform; the team includes alumni from BCG, Stripe, and the White House; fast‑growing startup with high ownership and real‑world impact on influential clients

## Sources
1. [clipbook.com](https://clipbook.com/)
2. [clipbook.com/careers](https://clipbook.com/careers)
3. [linkedin.com/company/clipbookai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/clipbookai)
4. [cbinsights.com/company/clipbook](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/clipbook)

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