Senior Backend Engineer
Overview
Join Checkly as a Senior Backend Engineer and empower developers and agents 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
- - Own and evolve our uptime monitoring platform
- - Work with infra to deploy our own Clickhouse instance
- - Design and implement an API on this datastore
- - Improve our status pages product
- - Scale our current backend platform
- - Participate in our on-call rotation
Required Skills
- - Deep experience in building applications in a professional product (SaaS) environment
- - Experience with TypeScript (Go is a plus)
- - Excited about developer tooling and testing frameworks like Playwright
- - Experience building distributed systems on AWS/GCP or bare metal servers
- - Autonomous and self-motivated in a remote environment
- - Great communicator in spoken and written English
Benefits
- - Stock options
- - 27 days of paid vacation + your 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
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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