Senior Backend Engineer, Fields

ClickUp ClickUp · Enterprise · Czech Republic · Engineering

This role is for a Senior Backend Engineer on the Fields squad at ClickUp, focusing on building scalable, high-throughput, low-latency services for custom task data. The company positions itself as an AI workspace, but the core responsibilities of this role are traditional backend engineering tasks related to data schemas, high-volume updates, and robust APIs, rather than direct AI/ML model development or deployment.

What you'd actually do

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

Skills

Required

  • Backend engineering
  • Node.js
  • TypeScript
  • SQL
  • Event-based systems
  • Cloud services (AWS)
  • Distributed systems
  • High-throughput systems
  • Low-latency services
  • API design

Nice to have

  • experience writing and debugging sql queries at scale
  • experience developing event based systems
  • experience with major cloud services (ideally AWS)
  • experience with Node.js
  • experience with TypeScript

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of experience engineering performant and high-throughput systems
  • track record of building performant, high-throughput systems