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Backend Software Engineer

Grammarly15 days ago
Remote
Canada, United States
CA$91,860 - CA$176,543/yearly
Mid Level

Top Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits, as well as equity
401(k) matching
Ample and defined time off

About the role

Who you are

  • Experience: You have 5+ years of software development experience, with at least 4 years focused on back-end development. You’re an expert in Go, TypeScript, or Python. You have deep expertise in architecting for performance and scale
  • AI Enthusiast: You believe AI will revolutionize not only how we work but also the experiences we create for our customers. Driven by passion and curiosity, you leverage AI to dramatically increase your own productivity and the impact of your team
  • Remarkable Quality: You produce work that is striking, worthy of attention, and a contribution to the state of the art
  • Asynchronous Communicator: You’re effective across various mediums (especially Slack, Notion, and email) and can produce and consume detailed written materials as needed without sacrificing speed. You respond quickly and thoughtfully to help others and expedite the process
  • Start-to-Finish Ownership: Acts with 100% responsibility for their own outcomes as well as the outcomes of the company
  • Bias to action: Speed matters. Takes rapid and decisive steps forward, even in the face of uncertainty, recognizing that action is the catalyst for progress and growth
  • Growth Mindset: You embrace challenges, welcome feedback, and believe you and others can always grow

What the job involves

  • Design, develop, and scale back-end systems that serve millions of users
  • Power amazing user experiences by building new features and improving existing ones
  • Evaluate and refine solutions to deliver a highly performant and exceptionally reliable back-end system
  • Become an expert in back-end development and expand your development across the stack and to various platforms
  • Collaborate across teams to define how our systems should evolve
  • Support code quality, new technologies, and architectural design within the company
  • Uphold and advance the security and reliability of Superhuman’s systems
  • Technologies we use: Go, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, Google Cloud

Benefits

  • Support for professional development with training, coaching, and regular feedback
  • Global, local, and team-specific events and programs
  • Catered lunches
  • Gym and recreation stipends
  • Admission discounts
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits, as well as equity
  • Support to set up a home office
  • Ample and defined time off
  • 401(k) matching

About Grammarly

Software Development
1001-5000

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