Software Engineer, Back-End (Growth)

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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 an exceptional and experienced Back-End Software Engineer to join our Growth team. This role will contribute to various parts of our back-end infrastructure responsible for communication with users through email and in product messaging. The Back-End Software Engineer will work with product managers and marketing leads to translate business requirements into technical tasks.

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

As a Back-End Software Engineer on the Growth team, you’ll make a significant impact on improving writing outcomes for millions of users and help drive business metrics by building systems that showcase the value Grammarly offers. You will design, develop, and release new back-end features as well as exploring new services to power up functionality. You will work very closely with product managers, marketing leads, and data scientists, as well as other engineers across the organization, to improve our messaging capabilities and integrate them seamlessly with our product offerings.

In this role you will:

  • Work on projects that directly impact key business metrics.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders across Marketing and Product teams, as well as with engineers working on various applications and interfaces.
  • Own the existing email infrastructure responsible for sending millions of emails covering hundreds of use cases.
  • Provide effective code reviews.
  • Help improve the development, testing, and release processes for our infrastructure.
  • Prepare plans to consistently achieve results and execute against timelines with predictability.

We’re looking for someone who

  • Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
  • Has at least 3 years of experience in back-end development using Java and/or Scala.
  • Has some experience with AWS products or other cloud offerings (GCP, Azure, etc.).
  • Has experience working on fast-paced teams.

Bonus points for

  • Experience with Terraform.
  • Experience working with messaging queues like RabbitMQ. 
  • Having worked on data pipelines using Spark and Airflow.
  • Experience working with email service providers (e.g. Salesforce Marketing Cloud)

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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