Senior Backend Engineer
Overview
Join Checkly as a Senior Backend Engineer and empower developers to own and ensure application performance and reliability - from pull request to post-mortem!
Job Description
Checkly helps engineers build reliable products by unifying testing, monitoring and observability. OpenTelemetry, Playwright, and Monitoring as Code are our foundation for unifying performance and reliability. Our tech stack is Vue.js, Node.js, TypeScript, Postgres, ClickHouse and AWS. We ship to prod all day, every day. We practice Agile (not scrum) and take pride in good documentation and good looking products. We’re a remote-first startup that keeps things simple—low on meetings, high on productivity, and always shipping.
Responsibilities
- - Harden & expand our backend
- - Build out new features and expand existing features
- - Work on scaling our current backend platform to meet the demands of our growing business
Required Skills
- - Deep experience in building applications in a professional product (SaaS) environment ideally with TypeScript / Golang
- - Business impact and instant visibility that a startup offers
- - Great communicator in spoken and written English
- - Ability to be autonomous and self-motivated in a remote work environment
- - Quick to pick up on new stuff and enjoy the process of learning new things
- - Love making software
Benefits
- - Transparent salary
- - Remote-first, flexible work hours, async-first culture
- - Stock options
- - 27 days of paid vacation + local public holidays
- - Paid sick leave & up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave
- - $1,500 learning, visiting and wellness budget
- - Co-working budget or home office setup
- - Bi-annual company retreats
- - Employee & contractor options
About the company
We believe that apps can be built and shipped more reliably from dev to production and beyond, and our vision is to create the best monitoring as code (MaC) platform for developers using modern stacks.
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