Senior / Staff Fullstack Engineer

About the role

Senior / Staff Fullstack Engineer At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 30,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship. As a small team, we’re all generalists and constantly picking up new challenges. When it comes to code, we’re looking to work with experienced people who can pick a problem and solve it. We use TypeScript and build scalable systems so we can continuously make progress on a solid foundation. We don’t expect you to have a background in everything we use, but we do expect strong JavaScript fundamentals and a background working with React and TypeScript. Location & work mode Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based in North America and Europe. You can work from most timezones within these regions. We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel. What you'll do - Build new user-facing features with everything from database models to GraphQL resolvers and UI components - Optimize our data synchronization stack by applying better serialization protocols - Add real-time collaborative editing to our content editor - Improve performance by profiling and tweaking virtualized list rendering - Add analytics, monitoring, and alerts to our service so that we can better respond to operational incidents - Open-source any non-trivial innovations that come out of our work on the product - Redefine best-in-class software development processes so that we can build a purpose-built product. What we're looking for - 5+ years of experience building customer-facing products at a high-quality software company - Strong React and TypeScript fundamentals, with experience across the full stack (Browser technologies, Node, GraphQL, PostgreSQL) - Track record of driving complex, end-to-end features (not just incremental improvements and refactors) with visible impact on the product - Product sensibility: you care about UX, speed, and polish, and you push back when something doesn't feel right - Comfortable working without heavy PM overhead; you can help to shape the problem, not just implement a solution - High ownership mentality: self-directed, full-lifecycle builder who takes a feature from idea to shipped - Thrives in a remote, async-first environment with a lean, high-output team - Experience at a startup or a company with a genuinely high engineering bar Our tech This stack reflects the systems we build and operate. You’re not expected to have experience with everything listed, but you should be excited to work close to product, performance, and real-world scale. - Agentic workload system utilizing temporal, operating at production scale - Proprietary websocket data sync framework built for speed and offline support - React, MobX, styled-components on the frontend - Extensive, widely used, GraphQL API and SDK - Node, Postgres, Temporal, and Redis in the backend - Hosted on Google Cloud with k8s - GitHub, Slack, Notion What we offer We're a small, focused team that cares deeply about the quality of our work and the people we do it with. Here's what you can expect: - Competitive salary and equity - Employee-friendly equity terms including early exercise in the US and extended exercise windows - Daily meal and coffee stipend on every workday - Paid co-working space or desk - Health coverage (based on country requirements) - 5 weeks paid vacation, plus local statutory holidays - 4 months paid parental leave - Paid month off after 4 years & every 2 years thereafter - Regular team events and off-sites - Remote-first with no required commute Learn how we think and work - A story about our mission: Read Me - Our hiring process: How we hire at Linear - How we work: Designing remote work at Linear - Our CEO and co-founder, Karri at 20VC: How to Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth - Make an Org Chart You Want to Ship — Advice from Linear on How Heirloom Tomatoes Should Inspire Team Design - Building our teams: Why and how we do work trials at Linear - A video series: Conversations on Quality - Read about our recent Series C Fundraise and Giving our team liquidity Linear is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. Europe

Key responsibilities

• check_circleCollaborate with the team on day-to-day project tasks
• check_circleLearn tools and processes used by the organization
• check_circleDocument work and participate in team meetings
• check_circleSupport quality checks and continuous improvement

Requirements

• check_circleBuild new user-facing features with everything from database models to GraphQL resolvers and UI components
• check_circleOptimize our data synchronization stack by applying better serialization protocols
• check_circleAdd real-time collaborative editing to our content editor
• check_circleImprove performance by profiling and tweaking virtualized list rendering
• check_circleAdd analytics, monitoring, and alerts to our service so that we can better respond to operational incidents
• check_circleOpen-source any non-trivial innovations that come out of our work on the product
• check_circleRedefine best-in-class software development processes so that we can build a purpose-built product.
• check_circle5+ years of experience building customer-facing products at a high-quality software company
• check_circleStrong React and TypeScript fundamentals, with experience across the full stack (Browser technologies, Node, GraphQL, PostgreSQL)
• check_circleTrack record of driving complex, end-to-end features (not just incremental improvements and refactors) with visible impact on the product
• check_circleProduct sensibility: you care about UX, speed, and polish, and you push back when something doesn't feel right
• check_circleComfortable working without heavy PM overhead; you can help to shape the problem, not just implement a solution

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Benefits & perks

• check_circleMentorship
• check_circleCertificate of completion
• check_circleFlexible work arrangement where applicable