As a Staff Backend Engineer in the Whiteboards Squad, you'll build and enhance scalable systems for collaborative visual tools, ensuring performance and user experience.
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. 🦄
Come to join our Whiteboards Squad and transform how teams collaborate visually. We've successfully integrated tldraw's powerful diagramming capabilities into ClickUp's Angular infrastructure, creating an intuitive experience for brainstorming and planning. As part of our team, you'll solve complex technical challenges, build features used by millions, and shape the future of collaborative visual tools. You'll work on a system that balances performance and scalability while meeting the needs of our diverse customer base. If you're passionate about visual collaboration and making an impact at scale, we want to hear from you!
Role:
- Build features and systems with attention to detail and performance.
- Own end-to-end development, from conception to production.
- Engineer not only solutions but also tools to understand the problem.
- 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 experience.
- 8+ years of experience engineering performant and high-throughput systems.
- You write high quality code and are uniquely productive.
- You have a track record of building performant, high-throughput systems.
- You have experience working with no-sql databases at scale.
- You have experience with major cloud services.
- 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.
Preferred:
- Familiarity with multiplayer applications that leverage WebSockets, e.g., yjs, hocuspocus, OTs, CRDTs, etc.
- Experience building large-scale SaaS platforms supporting millions of users.
- Experience with micro-services and event-driven architecture.
- Expertise with technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, DynamoDB and PostgreSQL.
- Passionate about saving people time by making the world more productive!
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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
Angular
Cloud Services
Docker
DynamoDB
Kubernetes
No-Sql Databases
Postgres
Websockets
ClickUp Dublin, Dublin, IRL Office
5 Dame Ln, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, D02 HC67
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