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title: 'Engineering Manager (Frontend) at ClickUp'
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# Engineering Manager (Frontend) at ClickUp

- **Company:** [ClickUp](https://feeny.ai/companies/clickup)
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $200k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-01-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clickup/c252ee33-b277-474e-963d-7fb64004c8a0/application

**Skills:** Node.js, Relational databases, Frontend frameworks, AWS, Cloud infrastructure, Software engineering

> Lead a team of engineers in developing scalable, high-performance features for ClickUp's Docs platform. Provide hands-on technical guidance, mentor staff, and ensure code quality while collaborating with product and design teams to deliver innovative solutions.

## Job description

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. 🚀

We are seeking a highly technical and experienced Engineering Manager to one of our business critical engineering team. This role is ideal for a hands-on leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment, has a deep understanding of collaborative document editing technologies, and is passionate about building scalable, high-performance software. As the Manager, you will oversee the development and delivery of innovative features, ensure technical excellence, and mentor a team of talented engineers.

The Role:

- Technical Leadership: Provide hands-on technical guidance to the team, ensuring best practices in software development, architecture, and design.
- Team Management: Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
- Product Development: Drive the development of new features and enhancements, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineering teams to align on goals, prioritize initiatives, and deliver exceptional user experiences.
- Code Quality: Oversee code reviews, ensure adherence to coding standards, and advocate for clean, maintainable, and testable code.
- Innovation: Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in collaborative editing, cloud infrastructure, and web development, and apply them to improve our product.
- Operational Excellence: Ensure the stability and performance of the Docs platform, proactively addressing technical debt and optimizing system architecture.

Qualifications:

- Technical Expertise:
- Proficiency in Node.js, relational databases, and at least one modern frontend framework.
- Experience with AWS cloud services and infrastructure.
- Leadership Experience:
- Proven track record of managing and scaling engineering teams.
- Strong ability to mentor and develop technical talent.
- Problem-Solving Skills:
- Ability to tackle complex technical challenges and make data-driven decisions.
- Communication:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 1 year in a leadership role.

#LI-Remote

## #LI-MAV

## 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.

Privacy Notice

ClickUp collects and processes personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws. You can find further details by viewing our Global Candidate Privacy Notice. https://clickup.com/careers-terms/candidate-privacy-notice

If you are a Philippine Job Applicant, please also see our Philippine Data Privacy Notice https://t333.s.clickup-attachments-stg.com/t333/d9a53ce2-6d2c-48cd-84b1-ed4e525f9613/Philippine%20Data%20Privacy%20Notice_2024.pdf?view=open for further details.

Visa Sponsorship

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. Please reach out to the recruiter with any questions.

Fraud Alert

ClickUp Talent Acquisition will only initiate contact via an @clickup.com http://clickup.com email or through our official careers portal on clickup.com http://clickup.com. We will never request fees, payments, or sensitive personal information. Please disregard any offers received outside these channels and report them to support@clickup.com.

AI Processing Notice

ClickUp may use artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to help review and screen candidates' employment applications against role-related criteria. These tools support, but do not replace, human decision‑making. If you have questions or need an accommodation in the recruitment process, please contact us at AskPeople@ClickUp.com.

## About ClickUp

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: ClickUp provides an all-in-one productivity platform that replaces fragmented work tools with a unified solution for tasks, documents, collaboration, and AI-powered agents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Diego, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Zeb Evans and Alex Yurkowski

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Productivity Software / Project Management / AI Agents
- **Target customers**: B2B, serving teams of all sizes from SMBs to 85% of the Fortune 500 [clickup.com]
- **Mission**: Maximize human productivity by fundamentally reinventing how work gets done through the convergence of software, AI, and humans [clickup.com/careers]

## Products & Services
- **ClickUp Platform**: The core product — an everything app for work combining tasks, docs, chat, whiteboards, goals, timelines, and 100+ product replacements [clickup.com]
- **Brain²**: ClickUp’s AI engine that intelligently routes tasks to the best frontier model (GPT, Claude Opus, Gemini, etc.) with full workspace context, memory, and preferences [clickup.com]
- **Super Agents**: Configurable AI agents that automate workflows — including PM Agent, Assign Agent, and Live Answers Agent — with the ability to build custom agents using any MCP (Model Context Protocol) connection [clickup.com]
- **ClickUp Apps**: Integrations with Google Drive, GitHub, Salesforce, Slack, and thousands of other tools [clickup.com]

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $4 billion (latest round, per Tracxn) [tracxn.com]
- **Total Funding**: $535 million raised [tracxn.com]
- **Key Metric**: Over 5 million teams use ClickUp; 85% of Fortune 500 companies are customers [clickup.com]
- **Notable Investors**: Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global Management, Craft Ventures [tracxn.com]
- **Growth Signals**: 1,529 employees as of March 2026; strong adoption of AI agents with 3M+ tasks automated; Forrester TEI study reports 384% ROI and payback in under 6 months for customers [tracxn.com, clickup.com]

## Competitive Advantages
- **Convergence over bundling**: Unlike competitors who bolt together separate tools, ClickUp was built from the ground up as one unified platform, giving Brain² full context across all work types (tasks, docs, conversations, files) — context that competitor AI tools lack [clickup.com/about]
- **Model-agnostic AI**: Brain² intelligently routes each query to the best frontier model (GPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.), delivering optimal performance without vendor lock-in [clickup.com]
- **Enterprise-grade security**: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA compliant, with AI privacy protections exceeding standard enterprise SaaS [clickup.com]
- **Massive product surface area**: 100+ products in one platform means customers can consolidate an entire tech stack, creating deep switching costs

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first convergence**: Deep investment in AI agents (Super Agents) and ambient intelligence that anticipates user needs rather than just responding to commands [clickup.com]
- **Platform expansion**: Continuing to absorb adjacent tool categories (chat, docs, whiteboards, goals) to eliminate toggling between apps [clickup.com/careers]
- **Enterprise scale**: Targeting larger deployments with proven ROI data and robust compliance/security posture

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: The company emphasizes grit, growth mindset (“grow 1% every day”), passion, and hard work. Core value: “Normal f*cking sucks” — a rejection of status quo thinking [clickup.com/careers]
- **Impact**: Employees are empowered to work across AI, product, and engineering — “you don’t need to be an engineer to dive deep into leveraging AI” [clickup.com/careers]
- **Work model**: Remote-friendly with offices in San Diego (HQ), United States, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, Australia, and globally [clickup.com/about]
- **Perks**: Generous PTO, health plans, retirement benefits, wellness programs, and parental leave [clickup.com/careers]
- **Growth**: The company explicitly hires for potential impact and supports “building your boldest career”; recent headcount of 1,529 signals continued scaling [tracxn.com, clickup.com/careers]

## Sources
1. [ClickUp Careers Page](https://clickup.com/careers)
2. [ClickUp About Page](https://clickup.com/about)
3. [ClickUp Homepage](https://clickup.com/)
4. [Tracxn Company Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/clickup/__lm2pfON0Ef7h6Fu5h9GkLd9_fspnDEnBOL2bEKJxWkg)

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