Senior / Staff Fullstack Engineer at Linear

Role overview

Build customer-facing features for Linear across data models, GraphQL, backend services and React interfaces. This specific remote posting lists North America.

Responsibilities

• Build user-facing features from database models and GraphQL resolvers through UI components.
• Improve data synchronisation and real-time collaborative editing.
• Profile and optimise virtualised lists and application performance.
• Add analytics, monitoring and alerts for operational response.
• Shape software-development processes and open-source useful innovations.

Qualifications

• At least five years building customer-facing products.
• Strong React and TypeScript with browser, Node, GraphQL and PostgreSQL experience.
• A record of delivering complex end-to-end features with visible product impact.
• Product judgement, ownership and comfort shaping problems without heavy project-management overhead.
• Experience in a high-quality startup or similarly demanding engineering environment.

Technology in this role

• TypeScript: Strong React and TypeScript with browser, Node, GraphQL and PostgreSQL .
• React: Linear is hiring experienced fullstack engineers to build customer-facing product features across data models, GraphQL, backend services and React .
• PostgreSQL: Strong React and TypeScript with browser, Node, GraphQL and PostgreSQL .
• Redis: • Node, Postgres, Temporal, and Redis in the .
• Google Cloud: • Hosted on Google Cloud with .
• CAN: You can work from anywhere within those .
• Workday: • Daily meal and coffee stipend on every .
• GraphQL: Linear is hiring experienced fullstack engineers to build customer-facing product features across data models, GraphQL, backend services and React .

Role-specific candidate guide

Preparation notes based on the employer’s stated responsibilities and qualifications.

Understanding the scope. This Senior / Staff Fullstack Engineer position at Linear is best assessed through the work described in the employer’s posting, rather than the title alone. The available role overview says: “Linear is hiring experienced fullstack engineers to build customer-facing product features across data models, GraphQL, backend services and React interfaces. The role is remote-first and open to candidates in North…” Read that statement together with the responsibilities below to understand the likely balance between delivery, coordination and technical decision-making. The role belongs to the software engineering area, but that label is only a guide to the work; the employer’s own requirements remain decisive. Before applying, check the original listing for reporting lines, product or team assignment, employment terms and any details that may have changed since this copy was checked. Where this page says a fact is not specified, treat it as an open question rather than an implied promise.

What the responsibilities signal. The posting specifically names “Build user-facing features from database models and GraphQL resolvers through UI components.”; “Improve data synchronisation and real-time collaborative editing.”; “Profile and optimise virtualised lists and application performance.”. For each duty, identify a project where you performed comparable work and be ready to describe the context, your own contribution, constraints, decisions, and measurable result. Explain how you moved from the initial need to implementation, review, release or operational follow-through, where those stages apply. If the work involved other teams or users, distinguish your decisions from the group’s contribution. Avoid presenting a technology keyword as proof by itself: connect it to the problem you solved, the scale or complexity involved, and what changed after your work. The source may contain additional duties; review it directly before preparing your application.

How to read the requirements. The listed qualifications include “At least five years building customer-facing products.”; “Strong React and TypeScript with browser, Node, GraphQL and PostgreSQL experience.”; “A record of delivering complex end-to-end features with visible product impact.”. Mark each requirement as demonstrated, adjacent experience or a genuine gap, then use a concise example for the first two categories. A strong example explains what you personally owned, how.

Benefits

• We're a small, focused team that cares deeply about the quality of our work and the people we do it with. Here's what you can expect:
• Employee-friendly equity terms including early exercise in the US and extended exercise windows
• Daily meal and coffee stipend on every workday
• Health coverage (based on country requirements)
• 5 weeks paid vacation, plus local statutory holidays
• Paid month off after 4 years & every 2 years thereafter
• Regular team events and off-sites
• Remote-first with no required commute
• Read Me a story about our mission
• Our hiring process: How we hire at Linear
• How we work: Designing remote work at Linear
• Why and how we do work trials Linear blog post

About Linear

Linear makes software for product and engineering teams to plan work, coordinate development and ship products. Its product provides structured workflows for issues, projects and roadmaps, and the company says it is developing tools for a changing product-development environment in which people and AI systems work together.

Linear describes its team as distributed across North America and Europe and emphasizes product craftsmanship, clarity and execution. Engineering work may intersect with collaboration workflows, integrations, performance, reliability, design systems or AI-enabled product capabilities, depending on the team. The specific position description is the source for location eligibility, team assignment and the technical stack expected for this opening.

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