Software Engineer, Back-End (Machine Learning)

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Grammarly is continuing to grow our team during the COVID-19 pandemic, conducting fully remote hiring and onboarding processes. All Grammarly team members can work remotely until August 2021. Read more about how we’re supporting our team and communities.

The opportunity 

Grammarly empowers people to thrive and connect, whenever and wherever they communicate. Every day, 30 million people around the world use our AI-powered writing assistant. All of this begins with our team collaborating in a values-driven and learning-oriented environment. 

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Back-End Engineer, Machine Learning, to join our Engineering team. This individual will collaborate closely and support teams of researchers, computational linguists, and ML engineers to build end-to-end intelligence features for our customers. This includes developing tools, establishing and maintaining production support processes, monitoring, alerting, on-call/incident response, and cloud resource provisioning.

Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. Read more about our stack or hear from our team on our technical blog.

Your impact

The Back-End Engineer will help realize complex NLP and ML features in production systems. The majority of the problems that we’re tackling in language processing haven't already been solved elsewhere, which provides the opportunity for creativity and innovative problem-solving.

Working on this team requires a close partnership with analytical linguists, computational linguists, machine learning engineers, and research scientists. You will have an opportunity to develop and deepen your machine learning skills while bringing your expertise in service-oriented architectures, big data, public cloud, scalability, and maintainability to up-level our entire team. 

In this role, you will:

  • Collaborate with a wide range of internal feature development teams to deliver delightful product offerings to our customers. 
  • Bring your experience and creativity to identify opportunities as well as to design and implement solutions toward building infrastructure, tools, and sustainable processes for deploying ML models to production environments.
  • Collaborate with cloud and data platform teams to build state-of-the-art solutions to automate model training, validation, production testing, and monitoring.
  • Build and own your vision and roadmap for ML feature scalability and maintainability, guide the team and lead operational support for product features, and establish best practices. 
  • Help make Grammarly’s diverse array of machine learning systems maintainable by providing a common set of infrastructure, orchestration, and monitoring.
  • Bring the best of engineering practices and culture to ML product development.

We’re looking for someone who

  • Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
  • Demonstrates perseverance when faced with tough technical issues that have not been solved before.
  • Understands data structures and algorithms at a level sufficient to write performant code when working with large datasets or large incoming data streams.
  • Brings experience translating product requirements into scalable and performant code that involves interactions with databases, caching layers, or other services and/or APIs.
  • Is comfortable with data warehousing, data pipelines, ETL, best practices for moving data around, and real-time vs. offline compute options.
  • Is fluent in any of the JVM languages and associated production cloud ecosystems.
  • Has passion for quality in system design and building internal tools to boost productivity. 
  • Has experience and a well-formed perspective on production support and processes for live consumer and enterprise product offerings.
  • Is generally interested in machine learning and deep learning algorithms in the NLP space.

Support for you, professionally and personally

  • Professional growth: We hire people we trust, and we give team members autonomy to do their best work. We also support professional development with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
  • A connected team: Grammarly builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. We have a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER values. We also take time to celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific events and programs.
  • Comprehensive benefits: Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package that includes superior health care. We also offer ample and defined time off, catered lunches, gym and recreation stipends, admission discounts, and more.

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations—to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and participant in the U.S. Federal E-Verify program.

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Location

Grammarly’s San Francisco headquarters is located downtown, just a 5-minute walk from the Embarcadero BART station.

An Insider's view of Grammarly

How do you collaborate with other teams in the company?

We resolve our problems with constructive discussions that are only made possible by the level of empathy and listening skills that team members have here. It makes me happy to know I work with such exceptional people.

Maryna

Engineering Manager

How does the company support your career growth?

I was initially attracted to (and surprised by) the growth and scale of the business, and the feeling only grows as we expand into B2B. With its adaptable, positive, and passionate team, Grammarly is a unique place to be."

Nicole

Product Marketing

What is your vision for the company?

Writing helps us all achieve personal, professional, and academic success, but effective communication requires talent and time. It can be very challenging, and we may not always be able to effectively express our meaning, convey our intent, and be fully understood—creating a gap with our audience. We’re building Grammarly to close this gap.

Brad

CEO

What projects are you most excited about?

I always feel pumped when I see the positive feedback we get from our users. To know that your work is helping people discover a product that meaningfully improves their lives—it never gets old.

Shanik

Head of Growth

What are Grammarly Perks + Benefits

Grammarly Benefits Overview

Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a comprehensive benefits package that includes superior health care. We also offer ample and defined time off, gym and recreation stipends, admission discounts to events and cultural institutions, and more. We frequently take time to acknowledge and celebrate our colleagues’ accomplishments.

On top of our programs and policies, Grammarly also believes strongly in making sure that a major benefit is the company’s focus on a culture of collaboration and cooperation. We hire people we trust, and we give team members autonomy to do their best work. We also support professional development with training, coaching, and regular feedback.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Remote work program
Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model. Learn more here: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/remote-first-hybrid-work-model/
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Grammarly-paid insurance programs include life, AD&D, and short-term and long-term disability.
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Team workouts
Fitness initiatives at Grammarly include In-office yoga and sponsored race teams.
Mental health benefits
Grammarly provides employee assistance programs and counseling services (including virtual care).
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
Company equity
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
We provide up to 12 weeks of parental leave for the birthing person and 8 weeks of leave for the birthing partner.
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
Sabbatical
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Company-sponsored outings
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Fitness stipend
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Grammarly offers employees professional development opportunities like an annual individual budget for training along with the ability to attend job-related conferences and seminars.
Lunch and learns
Promote from within

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