Senior / Staff Backend Engineer (Eastern US)

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📍 Location: United States, most EU time zones, EST, PST

🔍 Industry: Software Development

🏢 Company: Linear

🗣️ Languages: English

🪄 Skills: GraphQLNode.jsPostgreSQLTypeScriptRedis

Requirements:

Strong JavaScript fundamentals
Experience building scalable infrastructure and backend solutions
Knowledge of Node, Postgres, and Redis

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