Senior Backend Engineer

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February 14

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At Linear we believe software can feel magical. Quality of software is driven by both the talent of its creators and how they feel while they’re crafting it.

11 - 50 employees

📋 Description

• 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 an opinionated product

🎯 Requirements

• Strong JavaScript fundamentals and experience building scalable infrastructure and backend solutions • Experience with TypeScript • Knowledge of Node, Postgres, and Redis • Familiarity with Public GraphQL API and data synchronization library

🏖️ 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)