Senior Backend Engineer, Docs

at ClickUp

Hungary

ClickUp is revolutionizing the way the world works. As the only all-in-one productivity platform built from day one for true convergence, ClickUp unifies tasks, docs, chat, calendar, enterprise search, and more—supercharged by context-driven AI. While others scramble to bundle fragmented tools or bolt on AI, we anticipated this future and made it our foundation from the start. Headquartered in San Diego with a rapidly expanding global footprint, we empower over three million teams to break free from silos and reclaim their time—saving at least one day every week. Join ClickUp, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies on the planet, and help millions of users transform the way they work. We’re not just building software. We’re shaping the future of work. Come join us in building the future—together. 🦄

ClickUp is looking for a driven software engineer to join our Docs team. As a Senior Software Engineer, Docs at ClickUp, you will help to design and deliver scalable distributed shared services used by other engineering teams. If you're an accountable, pragmatic, and invested go-getter that thrives when faced with new challenges and enjoys lots of cross-team collaboration...this role is meant for you!

The Role:

Implement and maintain the API endpoints, services, and workers that power all of the exciting new features on our roadmap.
Write efficient and concise SQL queries to use within our app, for reporting data metrics, and managing the integrity of the data within our databases.
Identifying and troubleshooting errors and performance issues that occur within our infrastructure.
Participate in designing and building systems for maximum performance, reliability, and scalability.
Work closely with frontend, quality assurance, and product teams.
Be able to conceptualize all the various parts of our infrastructure and how they all work together.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience.
8+ years of experience writing and maintaining API's in a production-level environment (preferably with Node.js).
Knowledge of SQL and relational databases (preferably PostgreSQL).
Experience with AWS or another cloud service.
A strong self-starter, operationally-focused; a problem-solver.
Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.

Desirable:

Experience with large scale processing.
Experience working with and designing real time collaboration systems.

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Unsure if you meet all the qualifications of this job description but are deeply excited about the role? We hire based on ambition, grit, and a passion for improving the way people work. If you think ClickUp is the company for you, we encourage you to apply!

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