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 25,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America and Europe, 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 and constantly picking up new challenges. When it comes to 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 TypeScript.
Location & work mode
Linear is a remote-first company. This role is open to candidates based in North America and Europe. You can work from most timezones within these regions. 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
Build new user-facing features with everything from database models to GraphQL resolvers and UI components
Optimize our data synchronization stack by applying better serialization protocols
Add real-time collaborative editing to our content editor
Improve performance by profiling and tweaking virtualized list rendering
Add analytics, monitoring, and alerts to our service so that we can better respond to operational incidents
Open-source any non-trivial innovations that come out of our work on the product
Redefine best-in-class software development processes so that we can build a purpose-built product.
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.
Pluggable agentic workload system utilizing temporal, operating at production scale
Proprietary websocket data sync framework built for speed and offline support
React, MobX, styled-components on the frontend
Extensive, widely used, GraphQL API and SDK
Node, Postgres, Temporal, and Redis in the backend
Hosted on Google Cloud with k8s
GitHub, Slack, Notion
What we offer
Interesting and challenging work
Work-life balance
Competitive salary and equity
Employee-friendly equity terms (extended exercise)
Paid lunch and coffee during workdays
Work remotely, no commuting to the office
Paid co-working space/desk at an office
Health, dental, and vision insurance (based on country requirements)
Regular team events and off-sites
5 weeks of paid vacation
4 months of paid parental leave (or more based on country requirements)
Learn how we think and work
A story about our mission: Read Me
How we work: Designing remote work at Linear
Our CEO and co-founder, Karri at 20VC: How to Grow Capital Efficiently in a World of BS Growth
Make an Org Chart You Want to Ship — Advice from Linear on How Heirloom Tomatoes Should Inspire Team Design
Building our teams: Why and how we do work trials at Linear
A video series: Conversations on Quality
Read about our recent Series C Fundraise and Giving our team liquidity
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.