Senior / Staff Fullstack Engineer

Linear is a remote-first company. This role is open to candidates based in the US and Europe. You can work from anywhere within those regions. 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 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
• How we work: Designing remote work at Linear
• Our CEO and co-founder, Karri at 20VC: How to Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth
• 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
• A video series: Conversations on Quality
• Read about our recent Series C Fundraise and Giving our team liquidity

Linear is an equal opportunity employer. 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.