Product Engineer

At Linear, we're building the product development system for teams and agents. AI is fundamentally changing how software gets built, and we’re shaping the tools this new era requires.

Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for more than 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, and we’re continuing to grow internationally. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and a deep care for software craftsmanship.

As a small team, we're all generalists that work across the full stack (built in TypeScript end-to-end). We’re looking for engineers that thrive in an environment of autonomy and individual responsibility to help us build the future of product development.

Location & work mode

Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based in North America. You can work from anywhere within this region. We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel.

What you'll do

• Work closely with founders, product, and design to implement new concepts and ideas
• Build AI-powered functionality into the core of Linear
• Update our collaborative content editor used across all internal surfaces
• Build new user-facing features with beautiful and scalable UI components
• Obsessively improve application performance
• Refine our software development processes to keep the team operating at high velocity

What we're looking for

• 2-5 years of experience building customer-facing products at a software company with a high engineering bar
• 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 (not just incremental improvements and refactors) with visible impact on the product
• Product sensibility: you care about UX, speed, and polish, and you push back when something doesn't feel right
• Comfortable working without heavy PM overhead; you can help to 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

Our tech

This stack reflects the systems we build and operate. You’re not expected to have experience with everything listed, but you should be excited to work close to product, performance, and real-world scale.

• Agentic workflow system utilizing temporal, operating at production scale
• Proprietary websocket data sync engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnOpm3a1fRE built for speed and offline support
• React, MobX, StyleX on the frontend
• Extensive, highly-trafficked GraphQL API and SDK
• Node, PostgreSQL, Temporal, and Redis on the backend
• Hosted on Google Cloud with k8s
• GitHub, Slack, Notion

What we offer

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:

• 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 & every 2 years thereafter
• Regular team events and off-sites
• Remote-first with no required commute

Learn how we think and work

• Read Me https://linear.app/readme a story about our mission
• How we work: Designing remote work at Linear https://linear.app/now/designing-remote-work-at-linear
• Why and how we do work trials https://linear.app/blog/why-and-how-we-do-work-trials-at-linear Linear blog post
• How we use AI in design https://designerfund.substack.com/p/ai-design-linear feature of Linear's design team
• Scaling our real-time sync engine https://linear.app/blog/scaling-the-linear-sync-engine talk by our cofounder, Tuomas Artman, at Linear's 2023 offsite
• A video series: Conversations on Quality https://linear.app/quality
• Our recent tender offer: Sharing Linear’s growth with the people building it https://linear.app/now/sharing-growth-with-the-people-building-linear

Linear is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

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