Senior Backend Engineer, ClickUp
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$160-205k
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Workplace productivity platform
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Workplace productivity platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$160-205k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To save people time by making the world more productive.
Role
Who you are
- An eagerness to learn
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability
- Team player with excellent communication skills
- Don't be afraid to voice your opinion and help making the product better
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience in creating and maintaining a production environment
- Proficient with TypeScript or other popular programming languages
- Familiarity with SQL and relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL)
Desirable
- Passionate about Productivity platforms and saving people time by making the world more productive!
- Proficient in Node.js / Nest.js / Express.js / TypeScript
- Previous experience with workflows or event driven automations in consumer or enterprise companies
- Building High Scale systems with millions of events processing in an hour
- Knowledge of Redis, Kafka, Docker
- Familiarity with running a platform on top of AWS
What the job involves
- Be part of of the team that builds one of the most critical and highly used products in ClickUp
- Build scalable and highly available platform to processes millions of customer workflows a day and maintain it to run across all our regions and data centers
- Collaborate with Product Managers and Designers to establish product requirements, define scope, and assess business impact
- Contribute to the design and construction of systems that prioritize performance, reliability, and scalability
- Understand the intricate workings of our infrastructure and how all components interact
- Work alongside fellow engineers to deliver sophisticated backend features outlined in the roadmap
- Challenge the status quo
- Have fun!
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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