Engineer for founding team

Salary Competitive
Equity To be negotiated

Linear is a remote-first company that has been founded by a team of Silicon Valley veterans from Uber, AirBnb and Coinbase. We're looking to hire engineers to be part of our founding team. In addition to taking part in building the first iteration of our product, founding team members will are the corner-stone of our company. Our culture, way of work and ultimately the success of our company will be defined by you.


Who we are

 

We're a group of friends who always loved to work on tools and Internet related things. We never cared too much for "agile" or other software development frameworks, and have worked fast paced in startups our whole careers. It really pained us how there was not an enjoyable issue tracking tool out there, so we set to build one we would love to use ourselves.

 

  • Karri - Designer /​ CEO. Former principal designer at Airbnb and Head of Design at Coinbase. He helped define Airbnb's design language system, typeface and design direction the web and mobile properties. He co-founded Y Combinator backed Kippt with Jori, and which was later acquired by Coinbase, where he joined as its first designer and set the brand and design direction for all of products. He has always had interest in coding, running servers and gaming.

  • Tuomas - Software engineer. He founded his first company just as the dot.com boom turned sour (that company is still around) and failed at a few others, before he took a detour through Shanghai to land in San Francisco, where he worked as an engineering manager for Groupon. He then joined Uber when growth was picking up and helped scale the mobile engineering team from 15 to 400.

  • Jori - Software engineer. He previously started Kippt with Karri, worked on Grove.io as his first startup job. He later became to be a software engineer at Coinbase where he designed and built the first versions of the API and React frontend. He is a big advocate of good coffee, loves Italian food and considers Nine Inch Nails to be greatest band ever.

 

Who we hope you are

 

  • Professional with years of experience. We don't care about titles, or schools you went to but we expect you have senior experience in the field and a background working in product driven companies or startups.

  • Ability to work independently. For our first hires, we're looking for people who thrive in a fast moving startup environment and have the ability to drive initiatives independently.

  • Strong communicator. As we work remotely, clear written and verbal communication is important for us to reduce ambiguity. Fluent English is required.

  • Builder. You enjoy building new things and see them get adopted. You have great intuition, but are keen on talking to your customers to validate your assumptions or find new solutions to their problems.

  • Software craftsman. You care about the code you write and review, creating not only working software, but well-crafted software. You are keen on sharing your experiences and help others maintain a high quality bar.

As a small team, we're all generalists and constantly pick up new challenges. When it comes to code, we expect you to be able to work on multitude of different things. Here are some of the work you might be tackling at Linear:

 

  • Building new client facing features with everything from database models, to GraphQL resolvers and UI components

  • Optimizing our data synchronization stack by applying better serialization protocols

  • Adding realtime collaborative editing to our Prosemirror based text editor

  • Improving performance by profiling and tweaking virtualized list rendering

  • Adding analytics, monitoring and alerts to our service so that we can better respond to incidents

  • Open-sourcing any non-trivial innovations that come out of our work on the product

  • Re-defining best-in-class software development processes so that we can build an opinionated product.

We ship new code and features constantly in small increments, and we use Linear extensively to do so. This means you're constantly using the tool you're building. To get a better idea of what's we're building, check out our weekly product changelog.

 

Working at Linear

 

We use Typescript and build scalable systems so we can continuously build on a solid foundation. We don't expect you to have background in everything we use but we expect strong JS fundamentals and a background working with React, and ideally TypeScript. Our stack in a nutshell:

 

  • React frontend with Styled Components, utilizing hooks for composability of functionality.

  • Proprietary data synchronization library built for speed and offline support. Delta-packets are transported using WebSockets.

  • MobX for binding the data model to the UI.

  • Prosemirror based content editor

  • Electron desktop application

  • Public GraphQL API that has access to all of the users data

  • Node, Postgres and Redis in the backend.

  • Hosted on Google Cloud with k8s.

  • GitHub, Slack, Notion

  • Design system with React component library

We care deeply about design. For is it's both how it works and how it looks. At its core, Linear is a developer tool where speed and small details matter, and we try to design it to be highly functional, yet minimalistic and delightful.

 

Location: up to you

 

Linear was founded in San Francisco but is now a distributed across North America (San Francisco, New York) and Europe (Helsinki). We don't have offices and we all work independently. We believe working remotely has many benefits and we're building Linear to support remote teams.

We don't mind where you live and work, but for our founding team we have a preference for EST and GMT(+1/2) so that we can meet online frequently without stretching hours too much.

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Equity package
Equity package

Want to be a partner? Look no further.

Remote work allowed
Remote work allowed

You know how you perform best. Work from your couch, your favorite cafe or abroad when you feel like it.

New tech gear
New tech gear

Are you a true Tech Savvy? Macbook, trackpad, you name it, we get you covered.

Work life balance
Work life balance

Carve out time for your kids, friends and personal cider projects.

Paid holiday
Paid holiday

Metropolitists, beach boys and mountaineers we salute you and pay you to go and explore the world.

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Working at
Linear

Linear has been founded by a team of Silicon Valley veterans from Uber, AirBnb and Coinbase. We're is a remote-first company, building tools to help software teams build great products. Linear lets you manage software development and track bugs. Linear's streamlined design is built for speed and efficiency — helping high performing teams accomplish great things.

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