Clickup
Senior Backend Engineer - AI Product
United States · Senior
No sponsorshipDetected 1 day ago
TypeScriptPythonNode.jsBackend DevelopmentVector DatabasesAPI DevelopmentMachine LearningLLMsRAGAI OrchestrationIncident ResponseProduct StrategyRecruiting
About the role
- ClickUp collects and processes personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
- Sponsorship for engineering and product roles is not guaranteed, but is instead based on the business needs for that specific role at that time.
- Please reach out to the recruiter with any questions.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement backend APIs, services, and data flows that power user-facing AI product features.
- We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer - AI Product to join the AI Engineering team and build the backend services and product features that power ClickUp's next-generation AI capabilities.
- This is a backend product engineering role at its core, but with one key difference: you'll be building AI-powered product experiences directly, not internal tooling or abstract platform layers.
- You'll ship features end-to-end in support of an AI team that is deep on coding agents, multi-agent orchestration, and production AI systems.
- Own and ship the backend product work that brings ClickUp's AI-driven experiences to life, ensuring the features our users interact with are fast, reliable, and well-architected.
- from technical design through implementation, testing, rollout, and production monitoring.
- Work directly with product and design to scope, estimate, and deliver features that users interact with daily.
- Build services that are reliable, observable, and tightly integrated with the product surface.
Requirements
- Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where the AI landscape is shifting constantly.
- Ability to break down product requirements into clean technical implementations and ship them iteratively.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with LLM integration patterns: RAG, function calling, tool use, prompt routing, context management.
- Experience with event-driven or asynchronous architectures.
- Proficiency in TypeScript/Node.js, Python, or Go.
- Experience in SaaS, productivity, or developer-platform environments.
- Familiarity with modern AI patterns: vector databases, model gateways, inference optimization, orchestration frameworks.
- Background at a startup or high-growth company where you shipped product fast and wore multiple hats.
- Equal Opportunity Employer
- ClickUp is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
Benefits
- Partner closely with AI engineers, product managers, and designers to translate product vision into production-ready backend implementations.
Company info
- We are an AI-native company.
- Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process.
- ClickUp is building the world's most complete platform for work by bringing tasks, docs, chat, search, and AI into one connected experience.
- We're looking for someone who is AI-native (you live in this space, you get the patterns, you're excited about what's possible) but whose strength is shipping reliable, scalable backend product code that delivers real user value.
Equal opportunity
- If you have questions or need an accommodation in the recruitment process, please contact us at AskPeople@ClickUp.com.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Please note we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for roles outside of engineering and product at this time.
- Sponsorship for engineering and product roles is not guaranteed, but is instead based on the business needs for that specific role at that time.
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