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San Francisco, California, United States
Remote only
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 40,000 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 that work across the full stack (built in Typescript end-to-end). We’re looking for experienced engineers that thrive in an environment of autonomy and individual responsibility to help us build the future of product development.
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 the US and Europe. You can work from anywhere within those 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
Read Me a story about our mission
Our hiring process: How we hire at Linear
How we work: Designing remote work at Linear
Why and how we do work trials Linear blog post
How we use AI in design feature of Linear's design team
Scaling our real-time sync engine talk by our cofounder, Tuomas Artman, at Linear's 2023 offsite
Our recent tender offer: Sharing Linear’s growth with the people building it
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.
A note on recruitment fraud: all official Linear hiring communication comes from an @linear.app email address, and all open roles are listed at linear.app/careers. We never ask candidates for payment or financial information. Suspicious messages can be reported to security@linear.app.