Senior / Staff Product Engineer

Department: Product

Location: North America

Employment Type: FullTime

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 and constantly picking up new challenges. Regarding product and 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. 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.

What you'll do

• Build new user-facing features with beautiful and scalable UI components

• Work closely with founders and design to implement fast new feature concepts

• Implement complex React components from drag & drop to the virtualized rendering of large data collections

• Add real-time collaborative editing to our content editor

• Improve application performance by profiling

• Redefine best-in-class software development processes so that we can develop a purpose-built product.

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.

• Pluggable 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

• Interesting and challenging work

• Work-life balance

• Competitive salary and equity

• Employee-friendly equity terms (early exercise, extended exercise)

• Paid lunch and coffee during workdays

• Work remotely, no commuting to the office

• Paid co-working space/desk at an office

• Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)

• Regular team events and off-sites

• 5 weeks of paid vacation

• 4 months of paid parental leave

Learn how we think and work

• Read Me a story about our mission

• How we work: Designing remote work at Linear

• Why and how we do work trials Linear blog post

• How we structure our product teams talk by our Head of Product, Nan Yu, at Config 2024

• Scaling our real-time sync engine talk by our cofounder, Tuomas Artman, at Linear's 2023 offsite

• Read about our recent Series C Fundraise and Giving our team liquidity

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.