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Senior Backend Engineer, Platform

160k – 210kUnited StatesRemote5+ YOE
Summary

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

About the role

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
Skills
TypeScriptGolangAPI designDistributed systemsCAP TheoremKafkaBackend for FrontendAPI GatewayEvent-driven architectureAI/ML technologies
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