Senior / Staff Fullstack Engineer

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 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. We use TypeScript and build scalable systems so we can continuously make progress on a solid foundation. We don’t expect you to have a background in everything we use, but we do expect strong JavaScript fundamentals and a background working with React and TypeScript.

Please note: We are an equal opportunity employer and remote-only company. At this time, we can only support hiring within North America for this role.

What you'll do

- Build new user-facing features with everything from database models to GraphQL resolvers and UI components

- Optimize our data synchronization stack by applying better serialization protocols

- Add real-time collaborative editing to our content editor

- Improve performance by profiling and tweaking virtualized list rendering

- Add analytics, monitoring, and alerts to our service so that we can better respond to operational incidents

- 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.

Our tech

This stack reflects the systems we build and operate. You’re not expected to have experience with everything listed, but you should be excited to work close to product, performance, and real-world scale.

- Pluggable agentic workload system utilizing temporal, operating at production scale

- Proprietary websocket data sync framework built for speed and offline support

- React, MobX, styled-components on the frontend

- Extensive, widely used, GraphQL API and SDK

- Node, Postgres, Temporal, and Redis in the backend

- Hosted on Google Cloud with k8s

- GitHub, Slack, Notion

What we offer

- Interesting and challenging work

- Work-life balance

- Competitive salary and equity

- Employee-friendly equity terms (early exercise, 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 (US)

- Regular team events and off-sites

- 5 weeks of paid vacation

- 4 months of paid parental leave

Learn how we think and work

- A story about our mission: Read Me https://linear.app/readme

- How we work: Designing remote work at Linear https://linear.app/now/designing-remote-work-at-linear

- Our CEO and co-founder, Karri at 20VC: How to Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vqDYkuzbSM

- Make an Org Chart You Want to Ship — Advice from Linear on How Heirloom Tomatoes Should Inspire Team Design https://review.firstround.com/make-an-org-chart-you-want-to-ship-advice-from-linear-on-how-heirloom-tomatoes-should-inspire-team-design/

- Building our teams: Why and how we do work trials at Linear https://linear.app/blog/why-and-how-we-do-work-trials-at-linear

- A video series: Conversations on Quality https://linear.app/quality

- Read about our recent Series C Fundraise https://linear.app/now/building-our-way and Giving our team liquidity https://linear.app/now/giving-our-team-liquidity-through-linear-s-first-tender-offer