💻 Software Engineer, Backend (Senior)

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.

We’re hiring an early to mid-level Senior Backend Engineer for our Core Team that focuses on the live Clubhouse app in production today. This team is responsible for rapid product explorations, overall quality and usage of the app, and monetization features for Clubhouse Plus users.

You’ll work in a highly collaborative environment with our founders, product, design, and data science to:

Solve dynamic set of user problems

Ship new product launches at speedImprove our monetization features and app quality

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.

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.