Help us craft high-quality tools

To empower product teams to do their best work, we are building a tool that combines UI elegance with world-class performance. Can you help us make it better?

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On a quest for quality

We believe that there is a lost art of building software. A craftsmanship that yields products of an exceptional, almost magical, quality.

It’s difficult to describe this quality with words and impossible to measure it in numbers, but you can feel it when it’s there. You know it when you experience it.

To bring back this level of quality, we are building a tool that empowers product teams to do their best work. A tool with unparalleled speed, focus, and design.

Building this tool requires a team of talented individuals who care deeply about the quality of their work, no matter if it’s engineering, design, or customer support.

We are looking for people who share our passion for software craftsmanship and getting even the smallest details right.

If that sounds like you, please reach out and join us on our quest.

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Karri Saarinen

A conversation on quality

Tuomas Artman

Building the sync engine

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How we build products

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At home with Karri Saarinen

The Pragmatic Engineer

Move fast with little process

How we think and work

Linear's mission is to inspire and accelerate builders. To turn that ambition into reality, we operate based on a set of core principles that keep us focused.

01
Ship early.
Simplify and ship smaller.
02
Build with users.
Listen carefully and understand their problems.
03
Know what good looks like.
Find and create good things. Point out what needs to change to make it better.
04
Think in principles.
Not in playbooks.
05
Build things that last.
Put care into the foundation. Don't make it a future person's problem.
06
Avoid side quests.
Don't fix every problem. Avoid adding unnecessary process or documents.
07
Say it as it is.
Get to the point and assume good intentions.
08
Keep the team small, do more with less.
We build better with fewer people. Wear multiple hats.
09
Hire the best people.
The best people hire the best people. Help recruit.
10
Create fans.
Build a community of people who use, love, and defend the product.
Fully remote.
The freedom to work remotely allows for more meaningful work.