Senior / Staff Product Engineer
Linear is building the product development system for teams and agents, and is hiring an experienced Senior or Staff Product Engineer to help build the future of product development. As a small team, everyone is a generalist working across the full stack, built in TypeScript end-to-end. The company seeks experienced engineers who thrive in an environment of autonomy and individual responsibility. Linear is remote-first, with this role open to candidates based in the US and Europe.
Responsibilities
- ▹Work closely with founders and design to implement new concepts and ideas
- ▹Build AI-powered functionality into the core of Linear
- ▹Update the realtime collaborative content editor used across all internal surfaces
- ▹Build new user-facing features with beautiful and scalable UI components
- ▹Obsessively improve application performance
- ▹Refine software development processes to keep the team operating at high velocity
Requirements
- ▹5+ years of experience building customer-facing products at a high-quality software company
- ▹Strong React and TypeScript fundamentals, with experience across the full stack (browser technologies, Node, GraphQL, PostgreSQL)
- ▹Track record of driving complex, end-to-end features with visible impact on the product
- ▹Product sensibility: caring about UX, speed, and polish, and pushing back when something doesn't feel right
- ▹Comfortable working without heavy PM overhead and able to help shape the problem, not just implement a solution
- ▹High ownership mentality: self-directed, full-lifecycle builder who takes a feature from idea to shipped
- ▹Thrives in a remote, async-first environment with a lean, high-output team
- ▹Experience at a startup or a company with a genuinely high engineering bar
Soft skills
What we offer
- ▹Competitive salary and equity
- ▹Employee-friendly equity terms including early exercise in the US and extended exercise windows
- ▹Daily meal and coffee stipend on every workday
- ▹Paid co-working space or desk
- ▹Health coverage (based on country requirements)
- ▹5 weeks paid vacation, plus local statutory holidays
- ▹4 months paid parental leave
- ▹Paid month off after 4 years and every 2 years thereafter
- ▹Regular team events and off-sites
- ▹Remote-first with no required commute
About the company
Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 25,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. The tech stack includes an agentic workload system using Temporal at production scale, a proprietary websocket data sync framework, React, MobX, and styled-components on the frontend, an extensive GraphQL API and SDK, and Node, Postgres, Temporal, and Redis on the backend, hosted on Google Cloud with Kubernetes.