Senior Backend Engineer (remote, UTC-3 to UTC+3)

(Fully remote, async-first, DevTool SaaS, 32-40h/week, time zones: UTC-3 to UTC+3)

Location: This is a FULLY remote role, but you must be within UTC-3 to UTC+3 to work with your team, peers, and internal customers. You do not have to be in the specific country or city shown in this listing, but please only apply if you are physically based within the UTC-3 to UTC+3 timezone.

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Join Checkly as a Senior Backend Engineer and empower developers and agents to own and ensure application performance and reliability - from pull request to post-mortem!

Checkly helps engineers build reliable products by unifying testing, monitoring and observability. OpenTelemetry, Playwright, and Monitoring as Code are our foundation for unifying performance and reliability.

Our tech stack is Vue.js, Node.js, TypeScript, Postgres, ClickHouse and AWS. We ship to prod all day, every day. We practice Agile (not scrum) and take pride in good documentation and good looking products.

We’re a remote-first startup that keeps things simple—low on meetings, high on productivity, and always shipping. If you love building cool things, working async, actually listening to and working with customers, and keeping it lean, you’ll fit right in!

Thousands of developers—teams at 1Password, CrowdStrike, Render, LinkedIn and Vercel included—trust Checkly to keep their apps running smoothly. In 2024, we raised $20M in Series B funding from Balderton, CRV, and Accel to take things to the next level.

We care about building a team where people of all backgrounds are encouraged to do their best work. To achieve this we built a flexible, remote-first and async-first startup environment with inclusive benefits and full transparency about how we pay.

Your Team

You'll join Team Tree, we handle enterprise enablement. That means our work cuts across the entire platform and touches areas such as uptime monitoring (TCP, DNS, URL, ICMP), Private Locations, RBAC, entitlements, and multi-account management. Everything that makes Checkly work for large organizations.

We are a small team with high autonomy. Enterprise work means priorities can change, so we keep plans loose and move fast when they do. You'll own problems end-to-end and ship things that unblock real customers.

What you'll do

Harden & expand our backend

Our backend runs on Hapi.js, Golang and a mix of AWS and bare metal server monitoring infrastructure, distributed around the globe. We ran over 2.5 billion checks already and are ramping up for a lot more.

To give you a clear idea of what the job could entail, here are some examples of the work we’ve done lately or will start soon:

• Own and evolve our uptime monitoring platform, driving new capabilities to customers observe and protect the most critical parts of their infrastructure at scale.

• Work with infra to deploy our own Clickhouse instance to capture check run logs and metadata. Design and implement an API on this datastore that allows customers to run reports on their check runs.

• Work with a customer to hunt down a bug that lets certain checks fail in their private location infrastructure.

• You will improve our status pages product to elevate it toward an industry-leading standard of reliability, transparency, and real-time communication.

• You'll work on scaling our current backend platform to meet the demands of our growing business, and participate in our on-call rotation to keep everything running smoothly around the clock.

What you should have

• You have deep experience in building applications in a professional product (SaaS) environment, with TypeScript (Go is a plus). Our platform runs services in both TypeScript and Go — you will work across both stacks and can ramp up on Go after joining.

• You’re excited about developer tooling, and testing frameworks like Playwright.

• You have experience building distributed systems on AWS/GCP or bare metal servers.

• You want business impact and the visibility that a startup offers.

• You like to work in a growing company with experienced founders.

• You assume good intentions and are a great communicator in spoken and written English.

• You're autonomous and self-motivated in a remote environment. You genuinely enjoy getting to know your colleagues and helping others.

• You are able to contribute across the stack and are quick to pick up on new stuff and enjoy the process of learning new things.

• You love making software!

• FULLY remote role, within the UTC-3 to UTC+3 time zones.

Why us?

• Transparent salary because your salary shouldn't be dictated by how good a negotiator you are (more info below).

• Remote-first, flexible work hours, async-first (low meeting, high productivity) and transparent culture.

• Become part of a fast-growing, international, and remote team where your work matters—your impact won’t get lost in layers of bureaucracy.

• Stock options.

• 27 days of paid vacation + your local public holidays.

• Paid sick leave & up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave.

• $1,500 learning, visiting and wellness budget.

• Co-working budget or home office setup.

• Bi-annual company retreats.

Find out more here.

What we pay

Fair, competitive, and transparent pay is very important for us. Therefore we work with a standardized salary calculator that includes several factors such as seniority level as well as location.

For this role, the range is

• €88k-€107k for someone in a similar cost of market as UK, Germany etc.

• €79k-€97k for someone in a similar cost of market as Spain, Poland, Ukraine etc.

Apply

If this sounds interesting, please apply! Studies by several different sources have shown that on average men will apply for a job if they meet 60% of the application requirements. Women, non-binary people and POC will seek to match a much higher percentage of requirements before applying. If you're not sure you're the right fit, apply anyway and let us know what you bring to the table. We'd love to hear from you!

We're all about being transparent and setting clear expectations. That's why we've put together our hiring playbook and open-sourced our employee handbook. There you'll find a sneak peek of who we are, how we work and what you can expect in our hiring process.