Job Url: https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/linear/jobs/senior-backend-engineer-north-america-remote Job Description: Linear Website LinkedIn All Job Openings 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 Senior Backend Engineer July 19 🏈 Anywhere in North America – Remote ⏰ Full Time 🟠 Senior πŸ”™ Backend Engineer Cloud GraphQL JavaScript Kubernetes Node.js Postgres Redis TypeScript Apply Now Receive Emails with Similar Jobs Report problem πŸ“‹ Description β€’ At Linear, we are on a mission to bring magic back to software. β€’ 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. β€’ Founded in 2019, Linear has become the tool of choice for 10,000+ companies to plan and build their products. β€’ Linear was set up as a fully remote company from the start. β€’ Today, our small but mighty team is distributed across North America and Europe. β€’ We are looking to work with experienced people who can pick a problem and solve it. β€’ We use TypeScript and build scalable systems so we can continuously make progress on a solid foundation. β€’ 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 β€’ Build the backend for various user-facing features β€’ Optimize real-time, synchronized data delivery across our clients β€’ Improve database and infrastructure performance by implementing caching solutions, connection pooling β€’ Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting for our service so that we can better respond to operational incidents β€’ Scale our service via architectural changes as well as infrastructure improvements β€’ Open-source any non-trivial innovations that come out of our work on the product β€’ Redefine best-in-class software development processes so that we can build a purpose-built product. πŸ–οΈ Benefits β€’ Interesting and challenging work β€’ Work-life balance β€’ Competitive salary and equity β€’ Employee-friendly equity terms (extended exercise) β€’ Paid lunch and coffee during workdays β€’ Work remotely, no commuting to the office β€’ Paid co-working space/desk at an office β€’ Health, dental, and vision insurance (based on country requirements) β€’ Regular team events and off-sites β€’ 5 weeks of paid vacation β€’ 4 months of paid parental leave (or more based on country requirements)