Senior JavaScript Engineer

(Fully remote, async-first, DevTool SaaS, 32-40h/week, time zones: UTC-3 to UTC+3)

Location: This is a FULLY remote role, but you must be within UTC-3 to UTC+3 to work with your team, peers, and internal customers. You do not have to be in the specific country or city shown in this listing, but please only apply if you are physically based within the UTC-3 to UTC+3 timezone.

Join Checkly as a Senior Product Engineer AI and empower developers and agents to own and ensure application performance and reliability - from pull request to post-mortem!

Checkly helps engineers build reliable products by unifying testing, synthetic monitoring and observability. OpenTelemetry, Playwright, and Monitoring as Code are our foundation for unifying performance and reliability.

Our tech stack is Vue.js, Node.js, TypeScript, Postgres, ClickHouse and AWS. We ship to prod all day, every day, including our agentic layer, which we just released. We practice Agile (not scrum) and take pride in good documentation and good looking products.

We’re a remote-first startup that keeps things simple—low on meetings, high on productivity, and always shipping. If you love building cool things, working async, actually listening to and working with customers, and keeping it lean, you’ll fit right in!

Thousands of developers—teams at 1Password, CrowdStrike, Render, LinkedIn and Vercel included—trust Checkly to keep their apps running smoothly. In 2024, we raised $20M in Series B funding from Balderton, CRV, and Accel to take things to the next level.

We care about building a team where people of all backgrounds are encouraged to do their best work. To achieve this we built a flexible, remote-first and async-first startup environment with inclusive benefits and full transparency about how we pay.

What you'll do

• Design & build AI agents and AI-enhanced features iteratively that help our customers debug, fix and create Playwright and API tests faster.

• Implement solutions full stack with your team.

• Get in touch with users to learn from their feedback directly, we want to build solutions that are delightful and solve real problems.

What you should have

• Excitement to build AI solutions that help developers debug, test, and ship faster.

• A track record of building AI solutions with customer focus.

• Experience in building applications in a professional product (SaaS) environment ideally with JS/TS & Node.js.

• You have the ability to be autonomous and self-motivated in a remote work environment, while you also enjoy getting to know your colleagues and helping others.

• You assume good intentions and are a great communicator in spoken and written English.

• You love making software!

How we work

• Teams organize around outcomes, not ceremonies. We ship and iterate continuously.

• You work autonomously and own your output.

• We talk to customers. All interactions matter.

• We assume good intentions, give direct feedback, and do not avoid uncomfortable conversations.

Why us?

• Have business impact and the instant visibility that a startup offers.

• Transparent salary because your salary shouldn't be dictated by how good a negotiator you are. (more info below)

• Remote-first, flexible work hours, async-first (low meeting, high productivity) and transparent culture

• Stock options

• 27 days of paid vacation + your local public holidays

• Paid sick leave & up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave

• $1,500 learning, visiting and wellbeing budget

• Co-working budget or home office setup

• Annual company retreats

What we pay

Fair, competitive, and transparent pay is very important for us. Therefore we work with a standardized salary calculator that includes several factors such as seniority level as well as location.

For this role, the range is

• €93k - €103k for someone in a similar cost of market as UK, Germany etc.

• €84k - €93k for someone in a similar cost of market as Spain, Poland, Ukraine etc.

Apply

If this sounds interesting, please apply! Studies by several different sources have shown that on average men will apply for a job if they meet 60% of the application requirements. Women, non-binary people and POC will seek to match a much higher percentage of requirements before applying. If you're not sure you're the right fit, apply anyway and let us know what you bring to the table. We'd love to hear from you!