Senior Backend Engineer

Description

• 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.

• 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.

• We are looking to work with experienced people who can pick a problem and solve it.

• We use TypeScript and build scalable systems so we can continuously make progress 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.

Requirements

• 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.

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)

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