Staff Frontend Engineer

At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. 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. Join us and help redefine what's possible.

Role Overview

We’re looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer to lead the design and development of major frontend systems and product initiatives at ClickUp. You’ll work across teams to solve complex technical challenges, improve engineering velocity, and help shape the direction of our frontend architecture. This role is for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, drives clarity in ambiguity, and can influence both technical decisions and execution across the organization.

What You’ll Do

• Lead development of complex product features and frontend systems in Angular 2+ and React.

• Partner with backend, integrations, product, design, and QA to deliver high-quality user experiences at speed

• Architect scalable, reusable frontend patterns that improve product quality and developer velocity

• Identify and address performance bottlenecks, UI architecture issues, and scalability risks

• Drive engineering best practices across testing, observability, code quality, and maintainability

• Help teams make strong technical decisions under tight timelines and evolving priorities

• Own delivery across large initiatives, balancing immediate product needs with long-term technical health

• Mentor engineers and elevate frontend craftsmanship across the team

• Contribute to improving how frontend engineers work together across domains

Qualifications

• 7+ years of frontend engineering experience, with deep expertise in Angular 2+ and React

• Strong command of TypeScript, RxJS, NgRx, and modern frontend architecture patterns

• Experience building reusable component systems and scalable frontend application structures

• Deep knowledge of performance optimization, debugging, and building for large-scale web applications

• Strong product sense and ability to work cross-functionally in a fast-moving company

• Demonstrated success leading major technical initiatives and influencing across teams

• Strong mentorship skills and a track record of leveling up other engineers

• Excellent communication and execution skills, especially in high-urgency environments

• Strong experience with unit, integration and end 2 end testing using jest, vilest, playwright or related frameworks and ability to come up with testing strategies.

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.

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