Senior Backend Engineer

All-in-one productivity platform that replaces individual workplace tools with a unified platform for project management, document collaboration, and AI.
Backend
Senior Software Engineer
Remote
1,000 - 5,000 Employees
5+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS

Description For Senior Backend Engineer

ClickUp is revolutionizing workplace productivity as the world's only all-in-one productivity platform. We're seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team focused on Chat, Inbox, and Notifications systems. This role is crucial for facilitating the hyper-growth of our platform that serves millions of users worldwide.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll work with key technologies including TypeScript and Postgres, building large-scale, globally distributed infrastructure on AWS. You'll be responsible for maintaining, developing, and scaling critical communication systems that serve as the backbone of ClickUp's platform.

The ideal candidate combines technical expertise with a passion for solving complex challenges at scale. You'll be working in an environment that values innovation and has been recognized on the Forbes Cloud 100 and Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies lists. Our engineering culture emphasizes quality, performance, and reliability while maintaining a strong focus on user experience.

This position offers the opportunity to work remotely with a global team, contributing to a product that helps millions of users save time and be more productive. We're looking for someone who aligns with ClickUp's core values and is excited about building the future of work. Whether you're architecting new features or optimizing existing systems, you'll play a key role in shaping how people work and communicate within the ClickUp ecosystem.

Join us in our mission to save people at least one day every week through better productivity tools. We offer a collaborative environment where you can make a significant impact while working with cutting-edge technologies and solving interesting technical challenges at scale.

Last updated 6 days ago

Responsibilities For Senior Backend Engineer

  • Build features and systems with attention to detail and performance
  • Own end-to-end development, from conception to production
  • Engineer solutions and tools to understand the problem
  • Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver a world-class product
  • Identify and implement improvements to existing systems
  • Help establish a fun, fulfilling, world-class engineering culture

Requirements For Senior Backend Engineer

TypeScript
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Kubernetes
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent major
  • 5+ years of experience engineering performant and high-throughput systems
  • Experience writing high quality code in TypeScript
  • Track record of building performant, high-throughput systems
  • Experience working with no-sql databases at scale (ideally DynamoDB)
  • Experience with major cloud services (ideally AWS)
  • Empathetic communicator
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and delivering projects with little direction
  • Product-minded with good intuition on user experience

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