Product Engineer

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 40,000 companies (including OpenAI, Coinbase, and Ramp) to plan, build, and ship their products. Today, our team is distributed across North America, Europe, and Australia, 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 that work across the full stack (built in TypeScript end-to-end). We’re looking for engineers that thrive in an environment of autonomy and individual responsibility to help us build the future of product development.

Linear is a remote-first company, with optional co-working offices in San Francisco, New York, and London. This role is open to candidates based in North America. You can work from anywhere within this region. We value deep focus and async collaboration, with intentional moments to connect in person through team off-sites, optional co-working, and occasional travel.

Work closely with founders, product, and design to implement new concepts and ideas

Build AI-powered functionality into the core of Linear

Update our collaborative content editor used across all internal surfaces

Build new user-facing features with beautiful and scalable UI components

Obsessively improve application performance

Refine our software development processes to keep the team operating at high velocity

2-5 years of experience building customer-facing products at a software company with a high engineering bar

Strong React and TypeScript fundamentals, with experience across the full stack (Browser technologies, Node, GraphQL, PostgreSQL)

Track record of driving complex, end-to-end features (not just incremental improvements and refactors) with visible impact on the product

Product sensibility: you care about UX, speed, and polish, and you push back when something doesn't feel right

Comfortable working without heavy PM overhead; you can help to shape the problem, not just implement a solution

High ownership mentality: self-directed, full-lifecycle builder who takes a feature from idea to shipped

Thrives in a remote, async-first environment with a lean, high-output team

Experience at a startup or a company with a genuinely high engineering bar

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.

Agentic workflow system utilizing temporal, operating at production scale

Proprietary websocket data sync engine built for speed and offline support

React, MobX, StyleX on the frontend

Extensive, highly-trafficked GraphQL API and SDK

Node, PostgreSQL, Temporal, and Redis on the backend

Hosted on Google Cloud with k8s

GitHub, Slack, Notion

We're a small, focused team that cares deeply about the quality of our work and the people we do it with. Here's what you can expect:

Competitive salary and equity

Employee-friendly equity terms including early exercise in the US and extended exercise windows

Daily meal and coffee stipend on every workday

Paid co-working space or desk

Health coverage (based on country requirements)

5 weeks paid vacation, plus local statutory holidays

4 months paid parental leave

Paid month off after 4 years & every 2 years thereafter

Regular team events and off-sites

Remote-first with no required commute

Read Me a story about our mission

How we work: Designing remote work at Linear

Why and how we do work trials Linear blog post

How we use AI in design feature of Linear's design team

Scaling our real-time sync engine talk by our cofounder, Tuomas Artman, at Linear's 2023 offsite

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.

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