Linear
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As a small team, we’re all generalists that work across the full stack (built in Typescript end-to-end).
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 50,000 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.
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 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.
Work closely with founders and design to implement new concepts and ideas
Build AI-powered functionality into the core of Linear
Update our realtime collaborative content editor used across all internal surfaces
Build new user-facing features with beautiful and scalable UI components
Obsessively improve application performance
Refine our software development processes to keep the team operating at high velocity
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
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
For US-based candidates, the expected cash compensation range for this role is $240,000—$320,000. For sales roles, this range represents on-target earnings (OTE), including base salary and variable compensation; for all other roles, it represents base salary. Final compensation is determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. For sales roles, actual earnings vary based on sales performance. Equity is a meaningful part of all offers at Linear.
Learn how we think and work
Read Me https://linear.app/readme a story about our mission
Our hiring process: How we hire at Linear https://linear.app/now/how-we-hire-at-linear
How we work: Designing remote work at Linear https://linear.app/now/designing-remote-work-at-linear
Why and how we do work trials https://linear.app/blog/why-and-how-we-do-work-trials-at-linear Linear blog post
How we use AI in design https://designerfund.substack.com/p/ai-design-linear feature of Linear's design team
Scaling our real-time sync engine https://linear.app/blog/scaling-the-linear-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 https://linear.app/now/sharing-growth-with-the-people-building-linear
A note on recruitment fraud: all official Linear hiring communication comes from an @linear.app http://linear.app email address, and all open roles are listed at linear.app/careers http://linear.app/careers. We never ask candidates for payment or financial information. Suspicious messages can be reported to security@linear.app.
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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