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Senior / Staff Backend Engineer

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πŸ’Ž Seniority level: Senior, 5+ years

πŸ“ Location: United States, EU, EST, PST

πŸ” Industry: Software Development

🏒 Company: Linear

πŸ—£οΈ Languages: English

⏳ Experience: 5+ years

πŸͺ„ Skills: Backend DevelopmentGraphQLNode.jsPostgreSQLSoftware DevelopmentSQLCloud ComputingKubernetesSoftware ArchitectureTypeScriptRedisCI/CDRESTful APIsMicroservices

Requirements:
  • Strong JavaScript fundamentals
  • Experience building scalable infrastructure and backend solutions
Responsibilities:
  • Build the backend for various user-facing features
  • Optimize real-time, synchronized data delivery across our clients
  • Improve database and infrastructure performance by implementing caching solutions, connection pooling
  • Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting for our service so that we can better respond to operational incidents
  • Scale our service via architectural changes as well as infrastructure improvements
  • 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 an opinionated product
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