Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ClickUp is building the future of work with the first truly converged AI workspace. They are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer - AI Product to join the AI Engineering team and build backend services and product features that support ClickUp's next-generation AI capabilities.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Ship backend product features that power AI-driven user experiences at scale: agent interactions, intelligent workflows, and context-aware product capabilities
- Build services that are reliable, observable, and tightly integrated with the product surface
- Partner closely with AI engineers, product managers, and designers to translate product vision into production-ready backend implementations
- Move fast without breaking things: balance iteration speed with code quality and system reliability
- Help the team make smart tradeoffs between feature velocity, system durability, and user experience
- Design and implement backend APIs, services, and data flows that power user-facing AI product features
- Own features end-to-end: from technical design through implementation, testing, rollout, and production monitoring
- Build the backend logic for agent-driven product experiences: context retrieval, action execution, conversation management, and intelligent routing
- Work directly with product and design to scope, estimate, and deliver features that users interact with daily
- Drive reliability and quality: observability, incident response, performance tuning, and rollout safety for AI-serving product surfaces
- Identify product-level bottlenecks and propose pragmatic backend solutions that improve the user experience
- Contribute to architecture decisions that balance product velocity with long-term maintainability
Skills
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience building and shipping user-facing product features at meaningful scale
- Strong fundamentals in API design, service architecture, data modeling, and performance optimization
- Experience working directly with or in support of AI/ML systems in production (model integration, inference pipelines, or agent-driven features)
- Product-minded: you care about what the user experiences, not just what the system does internally
- 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
- AI-native mindset: you're not just adjacent to AI, you're genuinely excited about agents, LLMs, and building the product experiences that make them useful
- Experience building backend features for agent-based or AI-powered product experiences
- 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
Benefits
- FullTime employment type
- REMOTE work model
- Fully remote location
- Equal Opportunity Employer status
- ClickUp collects and processes personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws
- Visa sponsorship for engineering and product roles is based on business needs and not guaranteed
- ClickUp Talent Acquisition will only initiate contact via an @clickup.com email or official careers portal
- ClickUp may use artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to help review and screen candidates' employment applications
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