The role
tldraw is hiring a backend/infrastructure engineer to strengthen the systems behind our product, improve release reliability, and support our next stage of growth.
You’ll bring deeper backend, infrastructure, and DevOps experience to a team of product-minded generalist engineers. This is a London based, in-office role.
This is a high ownership role in a small, fast-moving team. You’ll work across backend services, deployment infrastructure, release processes, and observability. You’ll build and maintain the services and tooling that power tldraw.com, our SDK, and how we ship.
We care about craft and momentum. We’re looking for someone who can pick up a problem, drive it end-to-end, and raise the bar for how we build and operate our systems. We’re looking for strong judgment and pragmatism, not rigid process.
You will
Own and improve backend systems supporting tldraw.com, our SDK, and related infrastructure
Improve release safety and speed (versioning, testing, rollbacks)
Build and scale backend services, APIs, data flows, and systems that power tldraw.com
Investigate and resolve production incidents and infrastructure issues
Partner with product engineers across the stack, and document what you build so the team can move faster
You’ll need
Fluency with TypeScript, Node.js, and systems design
Ability to write production-quality code independently (without AI assistance during our interview process)
Strong hands-on experience building and operating production backend systems
Experience with infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring/alerting, and incident response
Track record improving reliability, developer experience, or release quality
Clear communication, strong judgment in ambiguity, and comfort helping other engineers level up on backend/infrastructure
It’s a plus if you
Have been an early or founding engineer at a startup
Have experience with developer tools, SDKs, real-time collaboration, or local-first software
Have used Cloudflare, real-time databases, or similar backends for collaborative applications
Have built infrastructure for products serving both end-users and developer customers
Contribute to open source or developer communities
What you’ll get
Competitive salary + equity options
Hybrid working model
25 paid days holiday + UK public holidays
Private health insurance + pension contribution
Excellent equipment and choice of tools
About you
You care about reliability, craft, and momentum. You like making systems understandable and easy to build on, and you’re comfortable spanning backend, infrastructure, and product when it helps the team ship.
You can go deep when needed, stay pragmatic under ambiguity, and help others learn especially around backend architecture, release processes, and operational trade-offs.
About tldraw
tldraw is a London based Series A startup building software for infinite canvas applications. We’re best known for tldraw.com, our free collaborative whiteboard used by millions, and for viral demos like Computer and Make Real. Our commercial product is the tldraw SDK, a React library that lets companies build collaborative canvas experiences into their own products.
Our community includes 70k+ X followers, 45k+ GitHub stars, and 6k Discord members. Our customers include Google, Autodesk, ClickUp, and Blackrock.
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tldraw is hiring a backend/infrastructure engineer to strengthen the systems behind our product, improve release reliability, and support our next stage of growth.
You’ll bring deeper backend, infrastructure, and DevOps experience to a team of product-minded generalist engineers. This is a London based, in-office role.
This is a high ownership role in a small, fast-moving team. You’ll work across backend services, deployment infrastructure, release processes, and observability. You’ll build and maintain the services and tooling that power tldraw.com, our SDK, and how we ship.
We care about craft and momentum. We’re looking for someone who can pick up a problem, drive it end-to-end, and raise the bar for how we build and operate our systems. We’re looking for strong judgment and pragmatism, not rigid process.
You will
Own and improve backend systems supporting tldraw.com, our SDK, and related infrastructure
Improve release safety and speed (versioning, testing, rollbacks)
Build and scale backend services, APIs, data flows, and systems that power tldraw.com
Investigate and resolve production incidents and infrastructure issues
Partner with product engineers across the stack, and document what you build so the team can move faster
You’ll need
Fluency with TypeScript, Node.js, and systems design
Ability to write production-quality code independently (without AI assistance during our interview process)
Strong hands-on experience building and operating production backend systems
Experience with infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring/alerting, and incident response
Track record improving reliability, developer experience, or release quality
Clear communication, strong judgment in ambiguity, and comfort helping other engineers level up on backend/infrastructure
It’s a plus if you
Have been an early or founding engineer at a startup
Have experience with developer tools, SDKs, real-time collaboration, or local-first software
Have used Cloudflare, real-time databases, or similar backends for collaborative applications
Have built infrastructure for products serving both end-users and developer customers
Contribute to open source or developer communities
What you’ll get
Competitive salary + equity options
Hybrid working model
25 paid days holiday + UK public holidays
Private health insurance + pension contribution
Excellent equipment and choice of tools
About you
You care about reliability, craft, and momentum. You like making systems understandable and easy to build on, and you’re comfortable spanning backend, infrastructure, and product when it helps the team ship.
You can go deep when needed, stay pragmatic under ambiguity, and help others learn especially around backend architecture, release processes, and operational trade-offs.
About tldraw
tldraw is a London based Series A startup building software for infinite canvas applications. We’re best known for tldraw.com, our free collaborative whiteboard used by millions, and for viral demos like Computer and Make Real. Our commercial product is the tldraw SDK, a React library that lets companies build collaborative canvas experiences into their own products.
Our community includes 70k+ X followers, 45k+ GitHub stars, and 6k Discord members. Our customers include Google, Autodesk, ClickUp, and Blackrock.
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