[Remote] Senior Backend Engineer, Platform
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ClickUp is an AI-native company building the future of work with a converged AI workspace. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to develop API tooling, create distributed systems, and support platform capabilities that enhance ClickUp’s AI initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Build upon and integrate customer feedback, both internal and external, into our API tooling and shared services
- Create new architectural foundations and mission-critical distributed systems while collaborating closely with other teams
- Work within an agile, scrum-based engineering team focused on core platform capabilities
- Advocate for, create, and maintain API governance across engineering through collaboration, automation, and outreach
- Own integrations within our API Gateway layer and service lifecycles from design to production
- Identify improvements to the design and implementation of new and existing critical shared services
- Help grow our infrastructure engineering organization’s shared services relied upon by other engineering teams to accelerate product development
- Support the platform capabilities that power ClickUp’s AI initiatives, including Brain and Agents
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
- Strong understanding of API standards, design approaches, and integration patterns
- Strong understanding of CAP Theorum and distributed systems design patterns
- Proficient with TypeScript
- Proficient with Golang
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability
- Strong consideration for developer experience in everything you build
- Pragmatic approach to software design, development, and delivery
- Experience working with Kafka and related event-based patterns
- Experience working with and designing Backend for Frontend (BFF) patterns
- Experience supporting modern AI technologies, including MCP protocol and standards
- Experience building shared services and platform capabilities that enable AI products and agent-based systems
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