Staff Software Engineer

Clerk Chat's mission is to make every business conversational. We are achieving this by building the leading messaging application, integrating AI where it matters, and crafting our own telecom infrastructure. It's big and bold and needs spirited adventurers to join our growing team.

We've built Clerk Chat organically into a profitable business over the last 2 years. We're a team that believes in achieving your highest potential but not at the expense of work-life balance. That's why we have flexible vacation time, healthy quarterly bonuses, and creative freedom at the forefront. We're Silicon Valley-based entrepreneurs who have sold companies, gone through HF0, and built teams at Lucasfilms, Samsung, Netflix, DocuSign, and Series B+ Startups.

Clerk Chat is an in-office team based just three blocks south of the Embarcadero BART station, making it easy to commute and stay connected. We love being in the office five days a week because it fosters real-time collaboration, builds stronger relationships, and helps us move faster. This is an exciting time to join Clerk Chat. We're small enough that every individual has a big impact, but we're growing fast enough that there's tremendous room for career advancement.

As a Staff Software Engineer focused on Backend & AI, you are a technical leader who thrives at the intersection of systems engineering and applied AI. You're obsessed with building reliable, low-latency infrastructure and equally passionate about crafting prompts and orchestration layers that make AI feel magical. You understand that great AI products aren't just about the models—they're about the systems that surround them. You take ownership of complex problems, influence technical direction across teams, and elevate those around you.