Senior Frontend Engineer

At Linear, we are on a mission to create a new standard for modern software development. We are building the tools that empower the next generation of high-impact companies to do their best work. Linear is designed based on the practices and processes that distinguish world-class product teams from the rest: relentless focus, fast execution, and a commitment to the quality of craft.

Founded in 2019, Linear has become the default tool of choice for high-performance teams to build their products. Set up as a fully remote company from the start, our team is currently distributed across a variety of countries across the US, Latin America and Europe (we hire within US/EU timezones). We are a diverse team of individuals, all makers at heart. We love picking up new challenges and care deeply about the quality of our work.

As a small team, we’re all generalists and constantly picking up new challenges. When it comes to product and code, we’re looking to work with experienced people who can pick a problem and solve it. We use TypeScript and build scalable systems so we can continuously make progress on a solid foundation. We don’t expect you to have a background in everything we use, but we do expect strong JavaScript fundamentals and a background working with React, and ideally TypeScript.

What you'll do

• Building new user-facing features with beautiful and scalable UI components
• Work closely with founders and design to implement fast new feature concepts
• Implement complex React components from drag & drop to virtualized rendering of large data collections
• Adding real-time collaborative editing to our content editor
• Improving application performance by profiling
• Redefining best-in-class software development processes so that we can build an opinionated product

Tech

• React frontend with Styled Components, utilizing hooks for the composability of functionality
• Proprietary data synchronization library built for speed and offline support. Delta-packets are transported using WebSockets
• MobX for binding the data model to the UI
• Prosemirror-based content editor
• Electron desktop application
• Public GraphQL API that has access to all of the user's data
• Node, Postgres and Redis in the backend
• Hosted on Google Cloud with k8s
• GitHub, Slack, Notion
• Design system with React component library

What we offer

• Interesting and challenging work
• Work life balance
• Competitive salary and equity
• Employee-friendly equity terms (early and extended exercise in the US)
• Macbook Pro, 5K display and accessories
• Stipend to set up your home office
• Paid lunch and coffee during work days
• Work remotely, no commuting to the office
• Paid co-working space/desk at an office
• Regular team events and offsites
• 5 weeks paid vacation
• 4 months paid parental leave

Learn more about the technology behind our data syncing engine from a talk by our co-founder Tuomas.