Staff/Principal Backend Engineer
ClockwiseAbout Clockwise
Time is our most expensive resource. Clockwise helps individuals, teams, and organizations actually take control of their time to improve their productivity and deliver better results.
Acting like a supercharged executive assistant for everyone, it can "schedule the impossible" – finding time where there isn’t any by rearranging meetings according to you and your colleagues’ preferences. Clockwise delivers more focused time to solve tough problems, fixes conflicts on the fly, and helps you get more time for your priorities and what matters for you.
We're proud to have the backing of Coatue, Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Bain Capital Ventures and other preeminent investors.
We can’t fix our schedules on our own. But we can build the solution together. Join us, and let’s rework the workday.
The role
Clockwise is looking to hire a Staff or Principal Backend Engineer. We value engineers who build for the end user, and are passionate about enabling our business to accelerate and scale.
We’re a small team, and while this is a role focusing on backend and systems expertise, we ask everyone to pick up challenges across the stack. You will partner with other engineers, product managers and designers. We're a humble, fast-moving, and fun team building a consumer-centric culture with empathy, authenticity, focus, drive, curiosity, and enthusiasm.
The dream candidate will not only be an experienced systems engineer who is confident shipping high-quality code, but also have (a) some direct experience working with LLMs and (b) a passion for improving code-quality through testing and automation. They are able to tackle a large project, with quality, and reason through unclear requirements.
What you'll do
- Architect back-end systems that significantly impact user experience
- Build an intelligent time management system that puts time back in people's day
- Commit and push code every day
- Develop algorithms to model user behavior and predict how to optimize time
- Contribute to high-level strategic decisions
- Collaborate on design and UX with people who love product
- Directly influence our feature roadmap
- Contribute to our process and technology optimization
About you
- Expertise modeling data (relational and non-relational) as well as processing information at scale
- Strong belief in automated testing as a means of ensuring quality software
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure patterns, especially on AWS
- Some experience working with LLM tool-chains and probabilistic systems
- Experience working with multiple stakeholders and functions to ship great product
- A deep desire to learn and hone the craft of engineering
- Passionate about productivity tools and workflows
Our stack
Java, Rust, Python, Postgres, Kubernetes, Node, Typescript, Apollo, GraphQL, Hugging Face Transformers, and more
Work location
Clockwise is committed to a work experience that exemplifies our values-driven culture and this starts with empathy for everyone who joins our team. To this end, Clockwise offers both fully-distributed and flexible in-office options for new employees.
Fully Distributed: Clockwise has adopted remote-first rituals and technology for all employees in order to create an excellent employee experience for those who opt to work fully-distributed. This extends not only to a stipend for your home office, but also through all our company rituals, including a commitment to get together, in person, on a regular cadence. Please note that we’re open to employees located anywhere in the domestic United States.
In-Office: For those who wish to have a physical office to return to, we also offer employees access to WeWork, including our dedicated office inside the Montgomery Street WeWork location in San Francisco.
Pay Transparency
Clockwise employs pay transparency as one of several systems to ensure pay fairness and employee retention. Below is the approved base salary range for this position. It does not include total compensation factors like benefits, health insurance, and the value of Clockwise equity.
Salary range: $200,000 - $250,000
The final salary offered to a candidate may be higher or lower dependent upon several factors including, but not limited to, market rate, the qualified pool of candidates, internal compensation, candidate experience, interview performance, references, and budgetary constraints.
What we offer (non-exhaustive)
- Competitive total compensation package with generous equity
- Premium medical, dental and vision plans
- 401(k) plan
- Wellness stipend
- Virtual happy hours & events
- Generous, flexible vacation policy
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
In the Press
What drives Clockwise
Empathy - we work to fully understand our customers and teammates, especially when we disagree
Authenticity - we speak openly and candidly while embracing our teammates’ individuality
Focus - we spend our time deliberately and don’t wait to do the things that matter
Drive - we relentlessly pursue success and aren't afraid to get outside our comfort zone
Curiosity - we seek out opportunities to learn and continuously question how we can improve
Enthusiasm - we love what we do and are excited to share it with the world