# Senior Backend Engineer, Platform

**Company:** [ClickUp](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/clickup)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $160k – $210k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Go, API Design, Distributed Systems, Cap Theorem, Kafka, Backend For Frontend, Api Gateway, Event-Driven Architecture, Ai/Ml Technologies
**Posted:** 2026-06-08

> Senior backend engineer building and scaling API tooling, shared services, and distributed systems that power ClickUp's AI platform capabilities.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build upon and integrate customer feedback into API tooling and shared services
- Create new architectural foundations and mission-critical distributed systems
- Work within an agile, scrum-based engineering team focused on core platform capabilities
- Advocate for, create, and maintain API governance across engineering
- Own integrations within the 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 infrastructure engineering organization's shared services
- Support platform capabilities that power AI initiatives, including Brain and Agents

## Requirements
- 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 Theorem 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

## Nice-to-Haves
- 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

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