Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer (remote, UTC-3 to UTC+3) Checkly provides the pay range. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with the recruiter to learn more. Base pay range (Fully remote, async-first, DevTool SaaS, 32‑40h/week, time zones: UTC-3 to UTC+3) Location: This is a FULLY remote role, but you must be within UTC-3 to UTC+3 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 UTC+3 timezone. 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 €20 M 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 Own and evolve our uptime monitoring platform, driving new capabilities that help customers observe and protect the most critical parts of their infrastructure at scale. Work with infrastructure 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. Spearhead improvements to our status pages product to elevate it toward an industry‑leading standard of reliability, transparency, and real‑time communication. 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 Deep experience building applications in a professional product (SaaS) environment, ideally with TypeScript. Go is a plus. Excitement about developer tooling and Playwright. Experience building distributed systems on AWS or bare metal servers. Desire for business impact and the instant visibility that a startup offers. Experience working in a growing company with experienced founders. Excellent communication in spoken and written English; assumes good intentions. Ability to be autonomous and self‑motivated in a remote work environment, while enjoying getting to know colleagues and helping others. Comfort contributing across the stack, picking up new technologies quickly, and enjoying the learning process. A passion for making software. Full‑time remote role within 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. 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 plus local public holidays. Paid sick leave and up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave. €1 500 learning, visiting and wellbeing budget. Co‑working budget or home office setup. Bi‑annual company retreats. Employee & contractor options. 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: €88 k‑€107 k for someone in a similar cost‑of‑market as UK, Germany etc. €79 k‑€97 k for someone in a similar cost‑of‑market as Spain, Poland, Ukraine etc. Compensation Range: €79 K – €107 K Apply If this sounds interesting, please apply We want to hear from people who meet the requirements or even if you’re unsure – apply anyway and let us know what you bring to the table. We’re all about being transparent and setting clear expectations. #J-18808-Ljbffr