Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Linear, a fully remote company building an issue tracking and project management tool, as an experienced engineer to design and build native AI features. You will collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to create seamless AI-powered experiences, such as vector-powered search and proactive suggestions. The role involves building AI-powered features, working on intelligent workflows, designing backend services, optimizing prompts, and contributing to AI-integration infrastructure. Linear offers a competitive salary and equity, along with benefits like health insurance, paid time off, parental leave, and remote work options. The company prioritizes work-life balance and provides opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

• Experience building and deploying AI systems to production
• TypeScript and Node.js for backend services
• GraphQL APIs and WebSocket-based real-time sync
• Public and private AI models; temporal for async workloads
• Postgres, Redis, and Turbopuffer for storage and caching
• Hosted on Google Cloud with Kubernetes
• GitHub, Slack, Notion

Responsibilities

• Build AI-powered product features that feel native, fast, and delightful to use
• Work with product and design to prototype and iterate on intelligent workflows and user interactions
• Design backend services to power natural language interfaces, smart suggestions, agentic workloads, and more
• Optimize prompts, fine-tune model behavior, and evaluate performance
• Help to guide our agent platform, allowing third parties to bring agents into the core Linear experience as teammates
• Contribute to the architecture for AI-integration infrastructure that’s reliable and privacy-aware

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Employee-friendly equity terms (early exercise, 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 (US)
• Regular team events and off-sites
• 5 weeks of paid vacation
• 4 months of paid parental leave