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# 💻 Software Engineer, Backend (Senior) at Clubhouse

- **Company:** Clubhouse
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $227k–$253k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-11-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clubhouse/db75584c-f380-4cb3-b535-6e39980d26c2

## Job description

## About us

Alpha is a product studio focused on the intersection of AI and consumer social – backed by a16z and many of the top investors in the world. Our goal is to create social products that we use, that our friends use, and that have the potential to reach billions of people.

Clubhouse was our first app, and we’ve been quietly growing that while building our next set of products. We have years of runway, millions of users, and find ourselves at a very interesting time, where AI is making entirely new things possible with voice.

If you are a talented builder who’s interested in joining us, we’d love to talk.

## The Role

We're hiring an early to mid-level Senior Backend Engineer to join our server engineering team. This role sits on our Core squad, which owns rapid product explorations, app quality, and monetization features for Clubhouse Plus users. We’re looking for engineers who think at a systems level, ship with urgency, and build with a platform mindset — whether they're delivering a user-facing feature or designing a shared service. You'll work in a highly collaborative environment with our founders, product, design, and data science to:

- Solve a dynamic set of user problems across the product
- Ship new product launches and platform capabilities at speed
- Improve our monetization features, app quality, and backend reliability
- Iteratively improve a legacy codebase while keeping an eye on long-term maintainability

We are a remote friendly-company — with a strong commitment to ensuring you will do great work here and have best professional experience of your life. This role is open to candidates across the U.S.

## Who you are

- You are experienced and curious. You have 4–5 years of backend development experience with a strong foundation in languages like Python or Java, and experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB). You’re eager to deepen your technical craft and broaden your systems thinking.
- You think at a systems level. You understand the tradeoffs in evolving a legacy codebase — balancing short-term velocity with long-term maintainability. You map out edge cases for experiments and features, considering performance, scaling, and data implications. You appreciate the practical cost of complexity and advocate for the simplest solution that achieves the intended outcome.
- You build with a platform mindset. You think about API contracts, shared infrastructure, and distributed systems patterns as first-class concerns — even when shipping product features. You can identify when a product need is better served by investing in a shared service versus a one-off implementation, and you balance that tension pragmatically.
- You have a product mindset. You connect backend work to measurable business impact. You think about how experiments tie to user growth and engagement, and you balance technical decisions with product outcomes.
- You move quickly and iterate. You can scope and deliver MVPs to learn early, gather data, and iterate. You know how to balance speed and reliability so experiment results are trustworthy.
- You work well cross-functionally. You enjoy partnering closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Data Scientists to shape hypotheses and act on results. You communicate tradeoffs clearly and can reframe constraints as opportunities.
- You’re collaborative and low ego. You evolve your thinking based on new data, seek the best solution regardless of ownership, and contribute to a positive, inclusive team culture.

## What you will do

- Build and ship experiments that improve monetization, host experiences, content understanding, and personalization for millions of users.
- Evolve our backend systems — balancing quick iteration with code health and scalability.
- Collaborate closely with engineers, PMs, designers, and data scientists to shape and deliver high-impact features.
- Instrument and analyze experiments to inform the next iteration.
- Advocate for simplicity — making thoughtful tradeoffs to ensure solutions are maintainable and measurable.
- Create something meaningful. Social products allow people to connect in ways that were never before possible. At Clubhouse, you’ll be figuring out something entirely new for the world—a positive product that brings people’s voices together to help everyone have a life filled with great friendships.

Our company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or make any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting@clubhouse.com.

## About Clubhouse

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Clubhouse is a voice-based social platform that enables people to talk, tell stories, and build friendships in real-time audio rooms.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, last round April 2021)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Paul Davison (CEO) and Rohan Seth (Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Social networking platforms / Voice-based social audio
- **Target customers**: B2C, global consumer audience seeking authentic, real-time conversations
- **Mission**: “To increase friendship in the world” – believing good friendships are the foundation of happiness

## Products & Services
- **[Clubhouse App]**: A mobile and web audio-chat platform where users can join rooms on any topic, host conversations, and follow friends. Type: Social audio SaaS.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (last funding round was Series C in April 2021)
- **Key Metric**: **Total Funding** – $112M (across Seed, Series A, B, C). Annual revenue is not publicly material ($1M per some estimates, but likely not a focus).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Tiger Global, DST Global, plus dozens of top angel investors [clubhouse.com/jobs](https://www.clubhouse.com/jobs)
- **Growth Signals**: Grew from Seed to Series C quickly (2020–2021); headcount reached 74 employees with 5.1% YoY growth; operates in 15 countries; strong early press coverage (NYT, Forbes, TechCrunch)

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover in social audio** with a strong brand and a loyal early community
- **High-profile investor backing** providing “years of runway” and resources for long-term product building
- **Tight-knit, small team** — described as “scrappy, brilliant and ambitious” with a “relentless focus on building” [clubhouse.com/jobs](https://www.clubhouse.com/jobs)
- **Distributed-first culture** with quarterly in-person gatherings to preserve cohesion while hiring globally across the U.S.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening the product’s ability to “fill everyone’s life with rich and meaningful friendships” as the world becomes more remote
- Scaling the engineering and data science teams to build new features and improve discovery
- Maintaining a small, high-trust team rather than growing headcount rapidly

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-first**: “Work from anywhere” in the U.S. with a generous work-from-home stipend [clubhouse.com/jobs](https://www.clubhouse.com/jobs)
- **Quarterly company gatherings** in San Francisco for in-person collaboration, whiteboarding, and team bonding
- **Benefits and perks**: Equity for all employees, flexible vacation, excellent healthcare and family leave, home-office stipend, free snacks/meals, commuter benefits [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/clubhouse)
- **Engineering culture**: Meeting-light, fast-shipping, and product-obsessed. “We move quickly, we ship fast and get a lot done.”
- **Diversity, Equity & Inclusion**: Highly diverse management team, mandated unconscious bias training, inclusive hiring practices
- **Strength of team**: Colleagues are described as scrappy, brilliant, and ambitious – “best teammates ever”

## Sources
1. [clubhouse.com/jobs](https://www.clubhouse.com/jobs) – Company overview, culture, benefits, open roles
2. [builtin.com/company/clubhouse](https://builtin.com/company/clubhouse) – Perks, benefits, job listings, HQ, founded year
3. [linkedin.com/company/clubhouse-app](https://www.linkedin.com/company/clubhouse-app) – Employee count, revenue estimate, funding history, executives
4. [jobsearcher.com/companies/clubhouse](https://jobsearcher.com/companies/clubhouse) – Job trends, top roles (Data Scientist, Software Engineer)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/clubhouse/db75584c-f380-4cb3-b535-6e39980d26c2](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clubhouse/db75584c-f380-4cb3-b535-6e39980d26c2) – Senior Backend Engineer job posting (remote, US)

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