Senior / Staff Fullstack Engineer

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 and constantly picking up new challenges. When it comes to code, we’re looking to work with experienced people who can pick a problem and solve it. We use TypeScript and build scalable systems so we can continuously make progress on a solid foundation. We don’t expect you to have a background in everything we use, but we do expect strong JavaScript fundamentals and a background working with React and TypeScript.

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 North America and Europe. You can work from most timezones within these 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 t alk 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.

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