Senior Backend Engineer

ClickUpEuropeSenior5+ years experienceBackend

Specialty

Backend

The role

ClickUp is hiring a senior backend engineer for its Fields squad, which owns custom task data such as dynamic schemas and high-volume updates. The services handle millions of requests daily. The posting lists the role as remote.

What you will do

  • Build backend features and systems for custom task data with attention to performance
  • Own development end to end, from concept to production
  • Work with cross-functional stakeholders on the product
  • Find and implement improvements to existing systems
  • Help shape the engineering culture

What they ask for

  • 5+ years building performant, high-throughput systems, ideally on Node.js
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or an equivalent major
  • Writes high-quality code, ideally in TypeScript
  • Experience writing and debugging SQL queries at scale
  • Experience developing event-based systems
  • Experience with major cloud services, ideally AWS
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and delivering with little direction

This is our own short reading of the posting. The full description, and anything that has changed since, is on ClickUp's careers page behind the apply button.

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