Senior Backend Engineer (remote, UTC-3 to UTC+3)

(Fully remote async-first DevTool SaaS 32-40h/week time zones: UTC-3 to UTC3)

Location: This is a FULLY remote role but you must be within UTC-3 to UTC3 to work with your team peers and internal customers. You do not have to be in the specific country or city shown in this listing but please only apply if you are physically based within the UTC-3 to UTC3 timezone.

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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 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.

Were a remote-first startup that keeps things simplelow 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 youll fit right in!

Thousands of developersteams at 1Password CrowdStrike Render LinkedIn and Vercel includedtrust Checkly to keep their apps running 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 youll do

Harden & expand our backend

Our backend runs on Golang and a mix of AWS and bare metal server monitoring infrastructure distributed around the globe. We ran over 2.5 billion checks already and are ramping up for a lot more.

To give you a clear idea of what the job could entail here are some examples of the work weve done lately or will start soon:

• Implement a custom playwright reporter that allows customers to send test results from their CI runs into Checkly.

• Work with infra to deploy our own Clickhouse instance to capture check run logs and metadata. Design and implement an API on this datastore that allows customers to run reports on their check runs.

• Work with a customer to hunt down a bug that lets certain checks fail in their private location infrastructure.

• You will spearhead an AI Agent prototype to that allows customers to generate Playwright tests for their existing codebase.

• Youll work on scaling our current backend platform to meet the demands of our growing business and participate in our on-call rotation to keep everything running smoothly around the clock.

What you should have

• You have deep experience in building applications in a professional product (SaaS) environment ideally with TypeScript. (Go would be a plus.)

• Youre exited about developer tooling and Playwright.

• You have experience building distributed systems on AWS or bare metal servers.

• 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 able to contribute across the stack and 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 UTC3 time zones.

Why us

• Transparent salary because your salary shouldnt 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 mattersyour impact wont 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

• $1500 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

• 88k-107k for someone in a similar cost of market as UK Germany etc.

• 79k-97k 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 youre not sure youre the right fit apply anyway and let us know what you bring to the table. Wed love to hear from you!

Were all about being transparent and setting clear expectations. Thats why weve put together our hiring playbook and open-sourced our employee handbook. There youll find a sneak peek of who we are how we work and what you can expect in our hiring process.

Required Experience:

Senior IC