Staff Backend Engineer, ClickUp
Hierarchy
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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
- We are searching for passionate engineers with exceptional critical thinking skills and technical prowess to help maintain, develop and scale high throughput services to support the company through accelerated growth
- The ideal candidate will find the idea of architecting distributed systems that are reliable and highly performant exciting, has a knack for debugging and writing complex code and is excited by the challenge of building and maintaining a platform that every team in the company integrates with
- 8+ years of professional experience building backend services for SaaS products
- Proven track record of building and scaling backend systems
- Expertise in relational database query optimizations (prefer PostgreSQL)
- Extensive background working with databases (SQL and NoSQL) and data modeling
- Strong understanding of RESTful API design and implementation
- Experience with agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.)
- Familiarity with version control systems like Git
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a passion for tackling challenges
- Strong communication skills, as collaboration is key to our success
- Experience with microservices architecture and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
- 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!
Desirable
- Familiarity with frontend technologies (Angular, React, Vue)
- Professional experience with NodeJs, Express, and NestJS
What the job involves
- Come join the Hierarchy Squad to build and optimize a set of tier 1 services that are at the core of ClickUp’s all-in-one productivity platform
- Hierarchy owns the ClickUp filesystem that is at foundation of everything we build
- Our key technologies include Typescript, Postgres, Kafka, NestJS running on Amazon Web Services
- Develop and maintain robust, scalable backend systems using Node.js (Express and NestJS)
- Collaborate with engineers, designers, and product managers to drive projects forward
- Tune and optimize database queries for maximum efficiency and performance
- Optimize and improve existing code for better performance and user experience
- Troubleshoot and debug issues, ensuring smooth operations
- Share your knowledge and expertise to foster a culture of learning and growth
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.
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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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