Senior / Staff Backend Engineer - Remote

Overview

At Linear, we are on a mission to bring magic back to software. To empower 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.

In Short

• 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, connection pooling
• Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting for our service so that we can better respond to operational incidents
• Scale our service via architectural changes as well as infrastructure improvements
• Open-source 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.

Requirements

• Strong JavaScript fundamentals
• Experience building scalable infrastructure and backend solutions
• Familiarity with Node.js, Postgres, and Redis
• Experience with GraphQL APIs
• Knowledge of TypeORM and TypeGraphQL
• Experience with cloud services, particularly Google Cloud
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and monitoring tools like DataDog

Benefits

• 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)