Senior Backend Engineer

United StatesOnsiteFull TimeSenior$160,000–$210,000 /yrPosted 2 months agoVisa sponsorship available

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We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and build mission-critical distributed systems and shared platform capabilities, particularly those powering AI initiatives. This role involves working with technologies like TypeScript, Golang, Kafka, and API Gateway, focusing on API standards, distributed systems design, and event-based patterns. You will integrate customer feedback, advocate for API governance, and own service lifecycles from design to production. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of backend architecture, a pragmatic approach to software development, and a passion for improving developer experience and enabling AI products.

### Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- Strong understanding of API standards, design approaches, and integration patterns
- Strong understanding of CAP Theorum and distributed systems design patterns
- Proficient with TypeScript
- Proficient with Golang
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability
- Strong consideration for developer experience in everything you build
- Pragmatic approach to software design, development, and delivery
- Experience working with Kafka and related event-based patterns
- Experience working with and designing Backend for Frontend (BFF) patterns
- Experience supporting modern AI technologies, including MCP protocol and standards
- Experience building shared services and platform capabilities that enable AI products and agent-based systems
- 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!

### What the job involves
- Build upon and integrate customer feedback, both internal and external, into our API tooling and shared services
- Create new architectural foundations and mission-critical distributed systems while collaborating closely with other teams
- Work within an agile, scrum-based engineering team focused on core platform capabilities
- Uphold the highest levels of customer satisfaction in all things you do
- Advocate for, create, and maintain API governance across engineering through collaboration, automation, and outreach
- Own integrations within our API Gateway layer and service lifecycles from design to production
- Identify improvements to the design and implementation of new and existing critical shared services
- Help grow our infrastructure engineering organization’s shared services relied upon by other engineering teams to accelerate product development
- Support the platform capabilities that power ClickUp’s AI initiatives, including Brain and Agents

### Benefits
- 16" MacBook Pro
- Moving Expenses
- $200/mo commuter benefits
- Team lunches each week
- 401(k) match up to 2%
- Unlimited snacks, kombucha, and cold brew
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- ClickUp swag
- Teammate recognition rewards
- Flexible PTO

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