Senior Backend Engineer

At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what's possible. 🚀

ClickUp is on the lookout for talented backend engineers to join the Fields squad at ClickUp! Fields is the heart and soul behind our custom task data - think dynamic schemas, high-volume updates, and the flexibility that lets users tailor ClickUp to their individual workflows. We’re building scalable, high-throughput, low-latency services that handle millions of requests daily.

If wrangling distributed systems, fine-tuning performance, and designing robust APIs sounds like your idea of fun, let’s chat.

Role

• Build features and systems with attention to detail and performance.
• Own end-to-end development, from conception to production.
• Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver a world-class product.
• Identify and implement improvements to our existing systems.
• Help establish a fun, fulfilling, world-class engineering culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent major.
• 5+ years of experience engineering performant and high-throughput systems (ideally on Node.js).
• You write high quality code (ideally in TypeScript) and are uniquely productive.
• You have a track record of building performant, high-throughput systems.
• You have experience writing and debugging sql queries at scale.
• You have experience developing event based systems.
• You have experience with major cloud services (ideally AWS).
• You are an empathetic communicator.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and have consistently delivered projects with little direction.
• You are product-minded and have a good intuition on what a great user experience looks like.
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