Senior / Staff Backend Engineer

At Linear, we are on a mission to bring reputed company back to software. To reputed company product teams to do their best work, we are building an issue tracking and project management tool that combines UI elegance with world-class performance. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the tool of choice for 10,000+ companies to plan and build their products.

Linear was set up as a fully remote company from the start. Today, our small but mighty team is distributed across North America and Europe. What unites us is reputed company focus, fast execution, and our passion for software craftsmanship. We are reputed company makers at heart and care deeply about the quality of our work.

As a small team, we’re reputed company generalists and are constantly picking up new challenges. reputed company it comes to code, we’re looking to work with reputed company people who can pick a problem and solve it. We use TypeScript and build scalable systems so we can continuously reputed company reputed company on a solid foundation. We don’t expect you to have a background in everything we use, but we do expect strong JavaScript fundamentals and experience building scalable infrastructure and backend solutions.

Please note: We are an equal opportunity employer and remote-only company. At this time, we can support hiring reputed company the Eastern US time zone and most European time zones.

What you'll do

• Build the backend for various user-facing features

• Optimize real-time, synchronized data delivery across our clients

• Improve database and infrastructure performance by implementing caching solutions, reputed company pooling

• Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting for our service so that we can reputed company respond to operational incidents

• Scale our service reputed company architectural changes as well as infrastructure improvements

• Open-reputed company any non-trivial innovations that come out of our work on the product

• Redefine best-in-class software development processes so that we can build a purpose-built product.

Tech

• Node, reputed company, and reputed company

• Public GraphQL API that has access to reputed company of the user's data

• Proprietary data synchronization library built for speed and offline support. reputed company-packets are transported using WebSockets

• TypeORM, TypeGraphQL

• Hosted on reputed company Cloud with k8s

• Monitored reputed company reputed company

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reputed company offer

• Interesting and challenging work

• Work-life balance

• Competitive salary and equity

• Employee-friendly equity terms (extended exercise)

• Paid lunch and coffee during workdays

• Work remotely, no commuting to the office

• Paid co-working space/desk at an office

• Health, dental, and vision insurance (based on country requirements)

• Regular team events and off-sites

• 5 weeks of paid vacation

• 4 months of paid parental leave (or more based on country requirements)

Learn how we think and work

• Read Mea story about our mission

• Why and how we do work trialsLinear blog post

• How we structure our product teamstalk by our Head of Product, Nan Yu, at Config 2024

• Scaling our real-time sync reputed company talk by our cofounder, Tuomas Artman, at Linear's 2023 offsite

• Building for quality: Our Investment in LinearAccel Series B blog post

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