Senior / Staff Fullstack Engineer at Linear

This role is for an experienced, product-minded engineer who thrives as a generalist. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in TypeScript and React and is comf

Work type: remote

Location: North America

Type: Full-time

Summary

This role is for an experienced, product-minded engineer who thrives as a generalist. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in TypeScript and React and is comfortable moving across the entire stack—from database schema design to high-performance UI components. Since the team prioritizes "software craftsmanship," they are looking for someone who cares deeply about code quality, performance, and building tools for other developers. Linear offers a high-autonomy, remote-first culture that emphasizes deep focus and asynchronous work. Key perks include a competitive equity package with employee-friendly terms, five weeks of paid vacation, and comprehensive benefits. You’ll be working on a highly respected product used by top-tier tech companies like OpenAI and Coinbase, often contributing to open-source innovations that emerge from the internal build process. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have strong JavaScript fundamentals and a proven track record with TypeScript and React. * Enjoy solving complex problems like real-time data synchronization and collaborative editing. * Prefer working in a small, fast-moving team where you have significant ownership over features. * Value a remote-first environment that trades constant meetings for intentional, async deep work.

Job Description

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 25,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America and Europe, 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. 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.

• 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

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

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

• A story about our mission: [Read Me](https://linear.app/readme)

• How we work: [Designing remote work at Linear](https://linear.app/now/designing-remote-work-at-linear)

• Our CEO and co-founder, Karri at 20VC: [How to Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vqDYkuzbSM)

• Make an Org Chart You Want to Ship — [Advice from Linear on How Heirloom Tomatoes Should Inspire Team Design](https://review.firstround.com/make-an-org-chart-you-want-to-ship-advice-from-linear-on-how-heirloom-tomatoes-should-inspire-team-design/)

• Building our teams: [Why and how we do work trials at Linear](https://linear.app/blog/why-and-how-we-do-work-trials-at-linear)

• A video series: [Conversations on Quality](https://linear.app/quality)

• Read about our recent [Series C Fundraise](https://linear.app/now/building-our-way) and [Giving our team liquidity](https://linear.app/now/giving-our-team-liquidity-through-linear-s-first-tender-offer)

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