Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join us at Linear, a fully remote company on a mission to bring magic back to software. We're building an issue tracking and project management tool that combines UI elegance with world-class performance. As a small team, we're all generalists and are constantly picking up new challenges. We use TypeScript and build scalable systems so we can continuously make progress on a solid foundation.

Requirements

Strong JavaScript fundamentals and experience building scalable infrastructure and backend solutions

Responsibilities

• 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

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)