Staff Frontend Engineer, ClickUp
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Workplace productivity platform
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Workplace productivity platform
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To save people time by making the world more productive.
Role
Who you are
- This role is for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, drives clarity in ambiguity, and can influence both technical decisions and execution across the organization
- 7+ years of frontend engineering experience, with deep expertise in Angular 2+ and React
- Strong command of TypeScript, RxJS, NgRx, and modern frontend architecture patterns
- Experience building reusable component systems and scalable frontend application structures
- Deep knowledge of performance optimization, debugging, and building for large-scale web applications
- Strong product sense and ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-moving company
- Demonstrated success leading major technical initiatives and influencing across teams
- Strong mentorship skills and a track record of leveling up other engineers
- Excellent communication and execution skills, especially in high-urgency environments
- Strong experience with unit, integration and end 2 end testing using jest, vilest, playwright or related frameworks and ability to come up with testing strategies
- 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 looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer to lead the design and development of major frontend systems and product initiatives at ClickUp
- You’ll work across teams to solve complex technical challenges, improve engineering velocity, and help shape the direction of our frontend architecture
- Lead development of complex product features and frontend systems in Angular 2+ and React
- Partner with backend, integrations, product, design, and QA to deliver high-quality user experiences at speed
- Architect scalable, reusable frontend patterns that improve product quality and developer velocity
- Identify and address performance bottlenecks, UI architecture issues, and scalability risks
- Drive engineering best practices across testing, observability, code quality, and maintainability
- Help teams make strong technical decisions under tight timelines and evolving priorities
- Own delivery across large initiatives, balancing immediate product needs with long-term technical health
- Mentor engineers and elevate frontend craftsmanship across the team
- Contribute to improving how frontend engineers work together across domains
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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