engineering
Posted Aug 18, 2021Senior / Staff Fullstack Engineer
at Linear
Remote
Requirements
- AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires.
- Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 25,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products.
- As a small team, we’re all generalists that work across the full stack (built in Typescript end-to-end).
- experience building customer-facing products at a high-quality software company - Strong React and TypeScript fundamentals, with
- experience across the full stack (Browser technologies, Node, GraphQL, PostgreSQL) - Track record of driving complex, end-to-end features (not just incremental improvements and refactors) with visible impact on the product - Product sensibility: you care about UX, speed, and polish, and you push back when something doesn't feel right - Comfortable working without heavy PM overhead; you can help to shape the problem, not just implement a solution - High ownership mentality: self-directed, full-lifecycle
- Experience at a startup or a company with a genuinely high engineering bar 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.
- - 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 We're a small, focused team that cares deeply about the quality of our work and the people we do it with.
Experience
- What we're looking for - 5+ years of
Benefits
- Here's what you can expect: - Competitive salary and equity - Employee-friendly equity terms including early exercise in the US and extended exercise windows - Daily meal and coffee stipend on every workday - Paid co-working space or desk - Health coverage (based on country requirements) - 5 weeks paid vacation, plus local statutory holidays - 4 months paid parental leave - Paid month off after 4 years & every 2 years thereafter - Regular team events and off-sites - Remote-first with no required commute
Additional details
- At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents.
- Today, our team is distributed across North America and Europe, and we’re continuing to grow internationally.
- What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship.
- We’re looking for experienced engineers that thrive in an environment of autonomy and individual responsibility to help us build the future of product development.
- Location & work mode Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London.
- This role is open to candidates based in the US and Europe.
- We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel.
- 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
- We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.