Senior Backend Engineer

ClickUp is the world’s only all-in-one productivity platform that flexes to the way people want to work. It replaces all individual workplace productivity tools with a single, unified platform that includes project management, document collaboration, whiteboards, spreadsheets, and AI. Our dedication to enhancing productivity has earned us recognition on prestigious lists including the Forbes Cloud 100, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, Inc. Power Partners and #1 on two of G2's Best Software Products Lists for 2023 - #1 Project Management Product and #1 Collaboration and Productivity Product. With our headquarters based in San Diego and a rapidly expanding global presence, we are shaping the future of work. Join our team at ClickUp, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies worldwide, and help millions of users be more productive - saving them at least one day every week. 🦄

Come join the Views Squad to build and optimize a set of tier 1 services that are at the heart of ClickUp’s all-in-one productivity platform! The Views Squad owns the core feature ClickUp, viewing, sorting, filtering your tasks. This highly visible product area needs to be performant and reliable. We are looking for passionate engineers with exceptional critical thinking skills and technical expertise to help maintain, develop, and scale high-throughput services to support the company's accelerated growth. The ideal candidate will be excited by the prospect of architecting reliable and highly performant distributed systems, has a knack for debugging and writing complex code, and enjoys the challenge of building and maintaining a platform that every team in the company relies on. Our key technologies include Typescript, Postgres, Kafka, and NestJS running on EKS in AWS. If this sounds appealing to you, you’d be an excellent addition to our team!

Role:

• Build features and systems with attention to detail and performance.
• Own end-to-end development, from conception to production.
• Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver a world-class product.
• Identify and implement improvements to our existing systems.
• Help establish a fun, fulfilling, world-class engineering culture.
• Engineer not only solutions but also tools to understand the problem.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent major.
• 5+ years of experience engineering performant and high-throughput systems (ideally on Node.js in Typescript).
• You are exceptionally productive.
• You have a track record of building performant, high-throughput systems.
• You have experience writing and debugging complex sql queries at scale.
• You have experience developing event based systems.
• You have experience with AWS (ideally EKS).
• You are an empathetic communicator and coworker.
• You are able to keep up in a fast paced environment and working with a team building multiple projects in parallel.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and have consistently delivered projects with little direction.
• You are product-minded and have a good intuition on what a great user experience looks like.

Preferred:

• Experience building large-scale SaaS platforms supporting millions of users.
• Experience building performant services with NestJS.
• Experience with micro-services and event-driven architecture.
• Experience with graphQL.
• Expertise with technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and PostgreSQL.

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Unsure if you meet all the qualifications of this job description but are deeply excited about the role? We hire based on ambition, grit, and a passion for improving the way people work. If you think ClickUp is the company for you, we encourage you to apply!

ClickUp was founded on a culture of hard work, consistent growth, and a desire to break norms. We’re a values-driven company and hire based on ambition, merit, and a willingness to do what it takes to succeed. We don’t care where you’re from, what you look like, or who you’re in a relationship with—we hire the best people for the job, and create an environment that supports employees on their journey to do the most exciting work of their lives! ClickUp is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

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