Senior Backend Engineer, ClickUp

• We're looking for someone who is AI-native (you live in this space, you get the patterns, you're excited about what's possible) but whose strength is shipping reliable, scalable backend product code that delivers real user value
• 5+ years of backend engineering experience building and shipping user-facing product features at meaningful scale
• Strong fundamentals in API design, service architecture, data modeling, and performance optimization
• Experience working directly with or in support of AI/ML systems in production (model integration, inference pipelines, or agent-driven features)
• Product-minded: you care about what the user experiences, not just what the system does internally
• Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where the AI landscape is shifting constantly
• Ability to break down product requirements into clean technical implementations and ship them iteratively
• AI-native mindset: you're not just adjacent to AI, you're genuinely excited about agents, LLMs, and building the product experiences that make them useful

Desirable

• ClickUp is building the world's most complete platform for work by bringing tasks, docs, chat, search, and AI into one connected experience. We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer - AI Product to join the AI Engineering team and build the backend services and product features that power ClickUp's next-generation AI capabilities
• This is a backend product engineering role at its core, but with one key difference: you'll be building AI-powered product experiences directly, not internal tooling or abstract platform layers
• You'll ship features end-to-end in support of an AI team that is deep on coding agents, multi-agent orchestration, and production AI systems
• Own and ship the backend product work that brings ClickUp's AI-driven experiences to life, ensuring the features our users interact with are fast, reliable, and well-architected
• Ship backend product features that power AI-driven user experiences at scale: agent interactions, intelligent workflows, and context-aware product capabilities
• Build services that are reliable, observable, and tightly integrated with the product surface
• Partner closely with AI engineers, product managers, and designers to translate product vision into production-ready backend implementations
• Move fast without breaking things: balance iteration speed with code quality and system reliability
• Help the team make smart tradeoffs between feature velocity, system durability, and user experience
• Design and implement backend APIs, services, and data flows that power user-facing AI product features
• Own features end-to-end: from technical design through implementation, testing, rollout, and production monitoring
• Build the backend logic for agent-driven product experiences: context retrieval, action execution, conversation management, and intelligent routing
• Work directly with product and design to scope, estimate, and deliver features that users interact with daily
• Drive reliability and quality: observability, incident response, performance tuning, and rollout safety for AI-serving product surfaces
• Identify product-level bottlenecks and propose pragmatic backend solutions that improve the user experience
• Contribute to architecture decisions that balance product velocity with long-term maintainability