Our mission is to uplift as many communities as possible. We do this through our app-based marketplace that connects healthcare professionals with the workplaces that need amazing workers. This enables hundreds of thousands of people to achieve financial stability for themselves and their families while providing essential care to millions of people across the U.S.
Founded in 2016, we are a remote-first team of over 1,000 people building a top Y-Combinator company and have been profitable since 2022. We’re the leader in Long-Term Care staffing and are rapidly expanding into Home Health, Hospitals, and more, meaning we have more work to do than people to do it, and are growing our team to support millions more people and their communities.
Applied Science builds the quantitative systems that power Clipboard’s marketplace. The team owns pricing algorithms, auction mechanisms, ML infrastructure, and the core metrics — take rate, margins, and the drivers behind them — that the rest of the org depends on. They also partner with product teams to build out quantitative approaches to new problems as they come up. You can find more information on the team and areas of work from this page.
What you'd be working onPricing algorithms and auction mechanisms
Shared marketplace metrics, automated variance detection, and notification systems
Causal modeling, experimentation frameworks, and analytical investigations
Engineers who do well on Applied Science are interested in marketplace economics and data science as much as they are in software engineering. They're equal parts builder and analyst — they dig into the data to understand what's actually driving a metric, reason through the cause and effect, and then go build and ship the solution. They partner with platform and data teams to build out our ML pipelines and rules engines, and they're comfortable working through tough architectural problems when the work demands it.
The team owns its systems end-to-end, so you should be comfortable working across the stack.
We use a straightforward TypeScript stack: React on the frontend with Ionic on mobile; our backend is Node/NestJS powered by MongoDB and Postgres.
The interview processWhen looking at candidates, their actual competencies matter more to us than what’s on your resumes. Because of that we make sure our assessments and interviews mirror real work that’s being done at Clipboard.
Here's what the process looks like:
Take-home PR assessment (~60–90 min) + live follow-up
Second take-home (technical design or second PR) + live follow-up
Hiring manager interview
Final culture screen with our Head of People
The process is written and async by design in order to for you to get a feel for how we work in our remote culture.
Quick Note on Scammers:
Clipboard would never ask you for money or your bank details to participate in our hiring process. Report any scammers impersonating the Clipboard hiring team members here.
Skills Required
- Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, and React
- Familiarity with database technologies such as MongoDB and Postgres
- Interest in marketplace economics and data science
- Ability to work across the tech stack
Clipboard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Clipboard and has not been reviewed or approved by Clipboard.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Corporate materials emphasize remote-first work with unlimited PTO, flexible hours, and family leave options. Feedback suggests time-off flexibility is a notable positive for corporate roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Corporate roles are advertised with medical, dental, and vision insurance. Benefits pages and company materials indicate multiple health-plan options for W‑2 staff.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Instant or same-day payouts after shifts are prominently marketed and often work smoothly, aiding cash flow. Higher-paying urgent or surge shifts and in-app rate negotiation can lift earnings in some markets.
Clipboard Insights
What We Do
We exist to lift as many people up the socioeconomic ladder as possible. We dramatically improve lives by letting professionals turn extra time and ambition into career growth and financial opportunity. We achieve this with our app-based marketplace that connects workplaces and professionals, allowing professionals to book on-demand shifts and workplaces to access on-demand talent.
Why Work With Us
Clipboard is a fast-growing Series C marketplace. We are a leader in our Long Term Care vertical and are expanding into several others (Dental Offices, Schools, etc). We are a YC Top Company with a global, remote team of 700+ people. We have been profitable since 2022, and fill millions of shifts annually at partner workplaces across the US.
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