🎉 Backend Engineer, Engagement

Alpha is hiring a mid-level Backend Engineer for Clubhouse’s Engagement squad, which builds and operates core social experiences such as live audio rooms, reactions, clips, houses, and replays. The role focuses on shipping measurable product features, evolving backend systems, and collaborating with product, design, engineering, and data science.

Responsibilities:

• Build, instrument, and ship features across live rooms, reactions, clips, houses, and replays, all used by millions of people. When a launch calls for an experiment, you’ll run it with our data scientists
• 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
• Advocate for simplicity by making thoughtful tradeoffs that keep solutions maintainable and measurable

Requirements:

• You have 3+ years of backend experience in a language like Python or Ruby, and you've worked with relational and/or NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB)
• You use AI coding tools every day and have opinions on where they help and where they don't