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Senior / Staff Backend Engineer

Linear

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IT - Software Development

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Job 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 platform of choice for 20,000+ 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. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and our passion for software craftsmanship. We are all makers at heart and care deeply about the quality of our work. As a small team, we’re all generalists and are constantly picking up new challenges. When it comes to code, we’re looking to work with experienced people who can pick a problem and solve it.

Job Responsibility:

  • 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

Requirements:

  • Strong JavaScript fundamentals
  • Experience building scalable infrastructure and backend solutions
  • Experience with TypeScript
  • Experience building scalable systems
What we offer:
  • 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)

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 09, 2025

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Remote work
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