Design and enhance ClickUp's backend systems, collaborate on features, and ensure optimal performance of high-throughput services.
ClickUp is revolutionizing the way the world works. As the only all-in-one productivity platform built from day one for true convergence, ClickUp unifies tasks, docs, chat, calendar, enterprise search, and more—supercharged by context-driven AI. While others scramble to bundle fragmented tools or bolt on AI, we anticipated this future and made it our foundation from the start. Headquartered in San Diego with a rapidly expanding global footprint, we empower over three million teams to break free from silos and reclaim their time—saving at least one day every week. Join ClickUp, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies on the planet, and help millions of users transform the way they work. We’re not just building software. We’re shaping the future of work. Come join us in building the future—together. 🦄
ClickUp is seeking talented engineers to help build our flagship product, Tasks. Our team owns the APIs that form the backbone of ClickUp, so you’ll have the opportunity to have a huge impact. We work on everything from creating new features (like enhancing task relationships and enabling deeper customization) to addressing performance challenges and ensuring operational excellence.We’re looking for passionate engineers with exceptional critical thinking and technical skills to maintain, develop, and scale high-throughput services as the company grows rapidly. The ideal candidate is excited by the challenge of architecting reliable, high-performance distributed systems, enjoys debugging and working with complex code, and thrives on maintaining a platform that powers the apps core functionality.
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.
- 8+ 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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Unsure if you meet all the qualifications of this job description but are deeply excited about the role? We hire based on ambition, grit, and a passion for improving the way people work. If you think ClickUp is the company for you, we encourage you to apply!
At ClickUp, we assess every candidate based on the potential impact they can have. We hire the best people for the job and support each person’s journey to build their boldest career.
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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Top Skills
AWS
Node.js
SQL
Typescript
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