Software Engineer, Back-End (Identity)

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The opportunity

Grammarly empowers people to thrive and connect, whenever and wherever they communicate. More than 20 million people around the world use our AI-powered writing assistant every day. 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 to join our Identity and Authentication team and help earn users’ trust by establishing best-of-class account security protection. This role will help support and enhance critical product flows, such as user registration, authentication, and account management.

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 Identity and Authentication team has end-to-end ownership of the sign-in process for Grammarly users in all of our user interfaces (extensions, web, Office add-in, mobile). This team is also responsible for all aspects of keeping user accounts secure—detecting suspicious logins, preventing unauthorized access, and expanding our multi-factor authentication mechanisms. Additionally, this team drives our consumer-focused roadmap as well as our quickly expanding enterprise roadmap.

As an engineer on the team you will:

  • Build and support in-production services with a very high call rate and extreme SLA requirements (both in terms of latency and uptime).
  • Strengthen user account security with cutting-edge, data-driven approaches to identifying and mitigating threats.
  • Implement back-end APIs to power user flows and enable authentication and account management for all consumer and enterprise products, across a variety of authentication protocols and integrations (SSO, MFA, sign-on via Google, Facebook, Apple, Okta, etc).

We are looking for someone who

  • Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
  • Is passionate about helping millions of users across the world communicate more effectively every day.
  • Has a good grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms, data structures.
  • Has a solid experience in core Java, understands JVM, its memory management, multi-threading, and standard library.
  • Understands vulnerabilities in web services and ways to eliminate them while developing a web app.
  • Has experience designing APIs and building web services that high-volume requests. 
  • Is capable of translating business process/logic into scalable and performant code that involves interactions with the database, caching layer, or other services and APIs.
  • Is a fan of unit and integration testing, covering code with insightful metrics and logging.
  • Is excited about cracking tricky issues while maintaining a service in production.

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 products that help 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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Technology we use

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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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