# Senior Backend Engineer

**Company:** [ClickUp](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/clickup)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Node.js, TypeScript, SQL, AWS, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Systems, REST APIs, Cloud Services
**Posted:** 2026-07-01

> Build and own scalable, high-throughput backend services for ClickUp's custom task data platform. The role requires 5+ years of experience, strong Node.js or TypeScript skills, SQL at scale, event-based systems, and cloud services experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build features and systems with attention to detail and performance.
- Own end-to-end development, from conception to production.
- Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver a world-class product.
- Identify and implement improvements to existing systems.
- Help establish a fun, fulfilling, world-class engineering culture.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or an equivalent major.
- 5+ years of experience engineering performant and high-throughput systems, ideally with Node.js.
- Write high-quality code, ideally in TypeScript, and be highly productive.
- Track record of building performant, high-throughput systems.
- Experience writing and debugging SQL queries at scale.
- Experience developing event-based systems.
- Experience with major cloud services, ideally AWS.
- Empathetic communication skills.
- Comfort with ambiguity and a track record of delivering projects with little direction.
- Product-mindedness and good intuition for creating a great user experience.

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