Software Engineer, Back-End

<p><em>Superhuman offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.</em></p> <h3><strong>About Superhuman</strong></h3> <p>Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, the AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite of apps and agents brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. The company’s products include Grammarly's writing assistance, Coda’s collaborative workspaces, Mail’s inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that understands context and delivers help automatically. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters. Learn more at<a href="http://superhuman.com/"><span class="s1"> superhuman.com</span></a> and about our <a href="https://blog.superhuman.com/our-values/"><span class="s1">values here</span></a>.</p> <h3><strong>The Opportunity</strong></h3> <p>To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for Back-End Software Engineers to join our engineering teams.</p> <p>Superhuman'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. You can hear more from our team on our <a href="http://grammarly.com/blog/engineering">technical blog</a>.</p> <p>As a Back-End Engineer at Superhuman, you will play a critical role in building core parts of the Superhuman product offering, infrastructure, and features to help 30 million users write more clearly and effectively every day.</p> <p>As a Back-End Engineer, you will:</p> <ul> <li>Start building and pushing code in your first week and ship impactful features in your first few months.</li> <li>Build and support production services with high call rates. </li> <li>Target high availability for consumer and enterprise customers. </li> <li>Learn how to build infrastructure as code (IaC).</li> <li>Collaborate widely with internal teams such as Core, Growth, Enterprise, Trust, and Data to deliver delightful product offerings to our customers. </li> <li>Contribute to an engineering culture with a strong emphasis on documentation, testing, and user experience.</li> <li>Evaluate the systems and technology in place today while proposing systems and architecture that can scale for the future. </li> <li>Have the opportunity to mentor new hires.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Qualifications</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Has 5+ years of relevant experience in back-end development.</li> <li>Displays excellent software engineering fundamentals, including knowledge of algorithms and data structures.</li> <li>Demonstrates perseverance when faced with tough technical issues.</li> <li>Has some experience with AWS or other cloud offerings (GCP, Azure, etc.).</li> <li>Has experience building, deploying, and debugging production systems at scale.</li> <li>Cares about the end-user experience and strives to ensure high quality.</li> <li>Has a demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal guidance, proactively manages tasks and priorities across multiple projects, analyzes and executes work effi ... (truncated, view full listing at source)