Senior Backend Engineer
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- Full Time
- Senior (5 to 8 years)
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Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
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Consumer Software, AI & Machine LearningIndustries
Position Overview
- Location Type: Remote
- Employment Type: Full-Time
- Salary: Not specified
Linear is a remote-first company building an issue tracking and project management tool. Founded in 2019, Linear is used by 10,000+ companies and is focused on UI elegance and world-class performance. The team is distributed across North America and Europe, emphasizing relentless focus, fast execution, and passion for software craftsmanship.
Requirements
- Strong JavaScript fundamentals
- Experience building scalable infrastructure and backend solutions
- Experience with TypeScript
- Familiarity with Node.js
- Experience with database technologies (Postgres)
- Experience with caching solutions and connection pooling
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and alerting
Responsibilities
- Build the backend for various user-facing features
- Optimize real-time, synchronized data delivery
- Improve database and infrastructure performance
- Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting
- Scale the service via architectural and infrastructure improvements
- Open-source any non-trivial innovations
- Redefine best-in-class software development processes
Tech Stack
- Node: JavaScript runtime environment
- Postgres: Relational database
- Redis: In-memory data store
- GraphQL API: Public API accessing user data
- TypeORM & TypeGraphQL: ORM and GraphQL framework
- Google Cloud & k8s: Hosting and orchestration platform
- DataDog: Monitoring tool
- GitHub & Slack & Notion: Collaboration tools
Company Information
- Founded: 2019
- Remote-First: Yes
- Team Distribution: North America and Europe
- Equity Terms: Competitive salary and equity, extended exercise
- Benefits: Paid lunch and coffee, health, dental, and vision insurance (based on country requirements), paid parental leave, regular team events and off-sites, 5 weeks of paid vacation, and co-working space/desk at an office.
Resources
- Read Me: https://linear.app/read-me (Story about the mission)
- Why and How We Do Work: https://linear.app/why-how (Linear blog post)
- Product Team Structure: https://linear.app/product-teams (Talk by Head of Product, Nan Yu, at Config 2024)
- Scaling Real-Time Sync Engine: https://linear.app/scaling-sync (Talk by cofounder, Tuomas Artman, at Linear's 2023 offsite)
- Building for Quality: https://linear.app/building-quality
Skills
JavaScript
TypeScript
Node.js
Postgres
Redis
GraphQL
TypeORM
TypeGraphQL
Google Cloud
k8s
DataDog
Observability
Monitoring
Alerting
Caching
Connection Pooling
Linear
Software development tool for task management
About Linear
Linear is a software development tool that helps teams build products more efficiently. It provides features for task management, issue tracking, and workflow customization, making it suitable for both startups and large enterprises. The platform simplifies complex tasks by breaking them down into manageable sub-issues, which enhances productivity. It includes automated backlog management to save time by auto-closing and archiving issues. Linear is designed for speed, offering rapid keyboard shortcuts and real-time synchronization. Users can create custom workflows and views to tailor the platform to their needs. A unique feature called "Cycles" helps teams prioritize their work by automatically tracking started issues and rolling over unfinished tasks to the next cycle. Linear's goal is to streamline the software development process, allowing teams to focus on building great products.
San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2019Year Founded
$50.8MTotal Funding
SERIES_BCompany Stage
Enterprise SoftwareIndustries
51-200Employees