Senior Backend Engineer, Meetings
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ClickUp is searching for exceptional backend engineers to join our Meetings team! The Meetings team powers the future of collaboration—think real-time communication, seamless integrations, and intelligent features that make every meeting more productive. We’re especially interested in engineers with a background in AI voice transcription, speech-to-text, or related technologies, who are passionate about building scalable, high-performance systems that handle millions of audio events and transcripts daily.
If you love designing robust APIs, optimizing distributed systems, and working at the intersection of AI and productivity, we want to hear from you.
Role:
Build and optimize backend features and systems for our Meetings platform, with a focus on AI-powered voice transcription and real-time collaboration.
Own projects end-to-end, from initial design through production deployment.
Collaborate closely with product, AI, and frontend teams to deliver innovative meeting experiences.
Identify and implement improvements to our audio processing and transcription pipelines.
Contribute to a world-class, inclusive, and fun engineering culture.
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent major.
6+ years of experience engineering performant and high-throughput backend systems (ideally on Node.js).
Proven experience with AI voice transcription, speech-to-text, or similar projects/companies.
Strong coding skills (ideally in TypeScript) and a track record of delivering high-quality, maintainable code.
Experience building and scaling distributed, event-driven systems.
Proficiency in writing and optimizing SQL queries at scale.
Familiarity with major cloud services (ideally AWS).
Empathetic communicator and effective collaborator.
Comfortable with ambiguity and able to deliver results with minimal direction.
Product-minded with a keen sense for great user experiences.
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