Software Engineer @ Clicks (YC F25) — Zurich
$120K - $200K • 0.50% - 2.00% equity
Zurich, Switzerland. Full-time.
About Clicks:
Seed stage startup backed by Y Combinator, Fly Ventures and 20VC; recently raised a $4M seed round. Mission: fully automate office work and become the operational backbone of every company in the world. The key is giving AI agents the broadest possible action space: computer use. Each Clicks agent has its own computer and operates it like a human — perceiving the screen and acting through mouse and keyboard inputs — allowing Clicks agents to perform any task or job a human office worker can.
What you'll do:
- Develop and optimize agentic AI capabilities
- Build and evolve the core infrastructure and product features of Clicks
- Design and scale systems to meet growing product demands while maintaining reliability and performance
- Optimize application performance, memory usage, and startup times
- Build evaluation environments for Clicks' agents
- Create monitoring, alerting, and observability systems to ensure operational excellence
- Build deployment pipelines and robust update mechanisms
- Influence product direction and shape what we build
Your background looks something like:
- 2+ years of experience building and operating backend systems in production
- Strong programming skills, primarily in Python
- Proficiency with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Comfortable working with infrastructure as code and modern DevOps practices
- Thrive in an ultra fast-paced startup environment and enjoy taking ownership
Strong candidates may also have:
- Experience designing scalable systems (e.g. caching, sharding)
- Familiarity with FastAPI, Postgres, or similar backend technologies
- Frontend experience with TypeScript, React, and Node.js
- Experience with or a strong understanding of AI agents and applied AI systems
Tech stack keywords: AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Python, Redis, DynamoDB, Distributed Systems, Software Architecture