ClickUp is the world’s only all-in-one productivity platform that flexes to the way people want to work. It replaces all individual workplace productivity tools with a single, unified platform that includes project management, document collaboration, whiteboards, spreadsheets, and AI. Our dedication to enhancing productivity has earned us recognition on prestigious lists including the Forbes Cloud 100, Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies, Inc. Power Partners and #1 on two of G2's Best Software Products Lists for 2023 - #1 Project Management Product and #1 Collaboration and Productivity Product. With our headquarters based in San Diego and a rapidly expanding global presence, we are shaping the future of work. Join our team at ClickUp, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies worldwide, and help millions of users be more productive - saving them at least one day every week. 🦄

Come join the Hierarchy Squad to build and optimize a set of tier 1 services that are at the core of ClickUp’s all-in-one productivity platform! Hierarchy owns the ClickUp filesystem that is at foundation of everything ClickUp engineers build. We are searching for passionate engineers with exceptional critical thinking skills and technical prowess to help maintain, develop and scale high throughput services to support the company through accelerated growth. The ideal candidate will find the idea of architecting distributed systems that are reliable and highly performant exciting, has a knack for debugging and writing complex code and is excited by the challenge of building and maintaining a platform that every team in the company integrates with. Our key technologies include Typescript, Postgres, Kafka, and NestJS running on Amazon Web Services. If this sounds interesting to you you’d make an excellent addition to our team!

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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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!

ClickUp was founded on a culture of hard work, consistent growth, and a desire to break norms. We’re a values-driven company and hire based on ambition, merit, and a willingness to do what it takes to succeed. We don’t care where you’re from, what you look like, or who you’re in a relationship with—we hire the best people for the job, and create an environment that supports employees on their journey to do the most exciting work of their lives! 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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Senior Backend Engineer, Hierarchy

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