Principal Frontend Engineer, ClickUp
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Workplace productivity platform
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Workplace productivity platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To save people time by making the world more productive.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of frontend engineering experience, including deep expertise in large-scale web applications
- Expert-level experience with Angular 2+, React, TypeScript, RxJS, and NgRx or similar state management systems
- Proven track record of architecting complex frontend systems used by large numbers of users
- Deep expertise in performance optimization, frontend scalability, maintainable application design, and reusable component architecture
- Experience driving technical strategy across multiple teams or product areas
- Strong judgment in balancing speed, quality, and long-term architecture in fast-moving environments
- Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across functions and levels
- Strong mentoring background and passion for building high-performing engineering organizations
- Experience with testing infrastructure and ability to define testing strategies for large scale features change changes
- 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!
What the job involves
- We’re seeking a Principal Frontend Engineer to drive the long-term technical vision for frontend engineering at ClickUp. In this role, you will lead architectural strategy across major product surfaces, solve company-wide frontend challenges, and influence how teams build and ship at scale. You will partner deeply with engineering, product, design, backend, and integrations leadership to ensure ClickUp’s frontend systems remain fast, reliable, and adaptable as the business grows
- This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who can operate at both strategic and implementation levels, especially in a high-growth, fast-paced environment
- Define and drive frontend architecture strategy across product areas and platform investments
- Lead the design of scalable, performant systems in Angular 2+ and React that support rapid product development
- Solve complex cross-team technical challenges related to performance, state management, scalability, and developer productivity
- Partner with backend and integrations teams to shape end-to-end architecture for major features and systems
- Raise the bar for quality, testing, maintainability, and engineering rigor across the frontend organization
- Provide technical leadership on the highest-impact initiatives and unblock teams working through ambiguous or difficult problems
- Guide teams toward pragmatic decisions that support both speed and long-term product quality
- Mentor senior and staff engineers, and help shape frontend engineering culture and standards
- Influence roadmap and organizational decisions through strong technical judgment and product partnership
Our take
Clickup provides a set of professional tools for collaborative project management, spreadsheets, document processing and workplace communication which are accessed from a single platform. In contrast to most of the austere, pared-back tools you might find in the workplace, it takes a playful approach, with its programs looking more like fun consumer-focused apps while still being fully-featured.
The company isn't alone in the workplace productivity market, counting Asana, Jira, Slack, and Monday among just a few of its competitors. However its advantage comes from its unified platform which encourages users to stay in ClickUp's ecosystem rather than look outside for other tools. Indeed, the vast majority of its users utilise three or more of its products. This has led to strong success in its market, with over 800,000 teams using the platform in enterprises such as IBM, logitech and Spotify.
ClickUp has been the beneficiary of a significant amount of investment, which it has used to develop its product and expand internationally. As it grows its footprint in Asia and Europe, where nearly half of its customers are based, it has also unveiled a new version of its platform which integrates AI writing and advanced search tools. The company is well poised to deliver on its vision of becoming the one app to replace them all.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2021
$400m
SERIES C
Dec 2020
$100m
SERIES B
Total funding: $537.2m
Company benefits
- 16" MacBook Pro
- Moving Expenses
- $200/mo commuter benefits
- Team lunches each week
- 401(k) match up to 2%
- Unlimited snacks, kombucha, and cold brew
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- ClickUp swag
- Teammate recognition rewards
- Flexible PTO
Company HQ
East Village, San Diego, CA
Leadership
Alex Yurkowski
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously co-founded Mango Technologies. Experience as a Software Engineer for IBM and as an iOS Developer for Notre Dame Research Group.
Zeb Evans
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Fast Followerz and spent one year as a Monorail Driver for Walt Disney World.
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