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As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will enhance backend features, collaborate on frontend development, and scale a SaaS application for performance and reliability.
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(Fully remote, async-first, DevTool SaaS, 32-40h/week, time zones: UTC-3 to UTC+3)

Join Checkly as a Senior Backend Engineer and empower developers to own and ensure application performance and reliability - from pull request to post-mortem!

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. If you love building cool things, working async, actually listening to and working with customers, and keeping it lean, you’ll fit right in!

Thousands of developers—teams at 1Password, CrowdStrike, Render, LinkedIn and Vercel included—trust Checkly to keep their apps running smoothly. In 2024, we raised $20M in Series B funding from Balderton, CRV, and Accel to take things to the next level.

We care about building a team where people of all backgrounds are encouraged to do their best work. To achieve this we built a flexible, remote-first and async-first startup environment with inclusive benefits and full transparency about how we pay.

What you'll do

Harden & expand our backend

Our backend runs on Hapi.js and a AWS based infrastructure, distributed around the globe. We ran over 2.5 billion checks already and are ramping up for a lot more.

You will help us build out new features and expand existing features. We have a TON of exciting stuff lined up (check out our public roadmap). You’ll work on scaling our current backend platform to meet the demands of our growing business.

Help build & shape our frontend

You will also be working together with our frontend engineers and designers on our Vue.js based frontend to ship amazing new features and disrupt the monitoring industry.

What you should have

  • You have deep experience in building applications in a professional product (SaaS) environment ideally with JS/TS & Node.js.

  • You like to have business impact and the instant visibility that a start up offers

  • You like to work in a growing company with experienced founders

  • You assume good intentions and are a great communicator in spoken and written English

  • You have the ability to be autonomous and self-motivated in a remote work environment, while you also enjoy getting to know your colleagues and helping others

  • You are quick to pick up on new stuff and enjoy the process of learning new things

  • You love making software!

  • FULLY remote role, within the UTC-3 to UTC+3 time zones.

Why us?

  • Transparent salary because your salary shouldn't be dictated by how good a negotiator you are. (more info below)

  • Remote-first, flexible work hours, async-first (low meeting, high productivity) and transparent culture

  • Become part of a fast-growing, international, and remote team where your work matters—your impact won’t get lost in layers of bureaucracy.

  • 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

  • Employee & contractor options

Find out more here.

What we pay

Fair, competitive, and transparent pay is very important for us. Therefore we work with a standardized salary calculator that includes several factors such as seniority level as well as location.

For this role, the range is

  • €93k - €103k for someone in a similar cost of market as UK, Germany etc.

  • €84k - €93k for someone in a similar cost of market as Spain, Poland, Ukraine etc.

Apply

If this sounds interesting, please apply! Studies by several different sources have shown that on average men will apply for a job if they meet 60% of the application requirements. Women, non-binary people and POC will seek to match a much higher percentage of requirements before applying. If you're not sure you're the right fit, apply anyway and let us know what you bring to the table. We'd love to hear from you!

We're all about being transparent and setting clear expectations. That's why we've put together our hiring playbook and open-sourced our employee handbook. There you'll find a sneak peek of who we are, how we work and what you can expect in our hiring process.

Top Skills

AWS
Clickhouse
Hapi.Js
Node.js
Postgres
Typescript
Vue

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