Senior Backend Engineer

About the role

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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Equal Opportunity Employer

ClickUp is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

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