Engineering Manager

At Linear, we are on a mission to bring magic back to software. To empower product teams to do their best work, we are building an issue tracking and project management tool that combines UI elegance with world-class performance. Founded in 2019, Linear has become the platform of choice for thousands of high-impact companies to build their products better.

Linear was set up as a fully remote company from the start. Today, our small but mighty team is distributed across North America and Europe. What unites us is relentless focus, fast execution, and our passion for software craftsmanship. We are all makers at heart and care deeply about the quality of our work.

As a small team, we’re all generalists and constantly picking up new challenges. We’re looking to work with experienced engineering leaders who thrive in a hands-on environment and can help teams build with focus, clarity, and velocity. You’ll support engineers in their growth, elevate product quality through technical guidance, and help us scale thoughtfully while staying true to our principles of simplicity, speed, and craft.

We don’t expect you to have a background in everything we use, but we do expect you to bring strong technical acumen, exceptional communication, and a track record of leading high-performing product engineering teams.

Please note: We are an equal opportunity employer and remote-only company. At this time, we can only support hiring within North America for this role.

What you'll do

• Support and develop a small team of engineers through regular feedback, mentoring, and coaching

• Collaborate with design, product, and founders to scope, prioritize, and deliver projects

• Facilitate planning and execution across projects while helping engineers stay unblocked and focused

• Ensure code quality and system reliability through reviews, architecture input, and operational excellence

• Advocate for and contribute to a strong engineering culture centered on ownership, curiosity, and collaboration

• Help define and evolve our engineering practices, hiring standards, and team processes as we grow

Tech

• React frontend with Styled Components, utilizing hooks for the composability of functionality

• Proprietary data synchronization library built for speed and offline support. Delta-packets are transported using WebSockets

• MobX for binding the data model to the UI

• Prosemirror-based content editor

• Electron desktop application

• Public GraphQL API that has access to all of the user's data

• Node, Postgres, and Redis in the backend

• Hosted on Google Cloud with k8s

• GitHub, Slack, Notion

• Design system with React component library

What we offer

• Interesting and challenging work

• Work-life balance

• Competitive salary and equity

• Employee-friendly equity terms (early exercise, extended exercise)

• Paid lunch and coffee during workdays

• Work remotely, no commuting to the office

• Paid co-working space/desk at an office

• Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)

• Regular team events and off-sites

• 5 weeks of paid vacation

• 4 months of paid parental leave

Learn how we think and work

• Read Me a story about our mission

• Why and how we do work trials Linear blog post

• Crafting quality that endures Config keynote by our Co-founder & CEO, Karri Saarinen

• How we structure our product teams talk by our Head of Product, Nan Yu, at Config 2024

• Scaling our real-time sync engine talk by our cofounder, Tuomas Artman, at Linear's 2023 offsite

• First Round Capital: The Unsung Ingredient: Taste