Senior Frontend Engineer, ClickUp
$160-210k
+ Equity
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Workplace productivity platform
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Workplace productivity platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$160-210k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To save people time by making the world more productive.
Role
Who you are
- ClickUp is seeking a technical leader in SaaS client performance, dedicated to elevating the customer experience through world-class performance solutions
- The ideal candidate is a hands-on expert in browser and NodeJS performance, with a deep understanding of how code impacts rendering, memory, and user experience
- You thrive on solving complex problems, collaborating across teams, and setting new standards for performance excellence
- If you’re passionate about making a measurable impact for millions of users, this is your opportunity to lead at scale
- 10+ years of experience in performance engineering or a related field
- Expertise with profiling tools for browsers and NodeJS
- Deep knowledge of performance metrics, reporting, and analysis across the full stack
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret metrics, logs, and load test results
- Advanced understanding of web/mobile architectures, HTTP protocols, caching, databases, and load balancing
- Proven problem-solving skills and a passion for optimizing client experiences
- Experience optimizing SQL and databases
- Fluency in data structure and algorithm optimization
- 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
- As a Senior Performance Engineer, you’ll drive end-to-end strategies to optimize application speed, memory, and reliability across our entire platform
- You’ll be empowered to analyze, diagnose, and resolve performance bottlenecks wherever they occur—front-end, back-end, or infrastructure—ensuring ClickUp remains the fastest, most reliable productivity platform on the market
- Lead root cause analysis on client performance issues and conduct post-mortems
- Profile application code to isolate inefficient algorithms, memory leaks, and other issues; recommend and implement fixes
- Set up performance monitoring, alerting, and dashboards to proactively identify and resolve client performance problems
- Analyze client traffic patterns, load testing results, and other metrics to establish benchmarks and drive improvements
- Advocate for performance best practices and set client performance standards across the engineering organization
- Identify infrastructure improvements (caching, CDNs, database optimization) to enhance client experience
- Collaborate with development teams to embed performance as a core requirement in new feature development
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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