ClickUp

Staff Backend Engineer, Hierarchy

Remote

Staff

REMOTE

ClickUp is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to join their Hierarchy Squad, the team responsible for the core filesystem that underpins ClickUp's all-in-one productivity platform. In this role you will design, build, and scale high-throughput distributed backend services using Node.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, and Kafka on AWS. You will work closely with engineers, designers, and product managers to drive reliability and performance at scale. This is a fully remote position suited for engineers with 8+ years of backend SaaS experience who are passionate about distributed systems and database optim...

Node.js

NestJS

Express

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

SQL

NoSQL

RESTful API design

Microservices architecture

Docker

Kubernetes

Kafka

AWS

Git

Distributed systems

Database query optimization

Data modeling

Agile methodologies

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