Senior backend engineer

✍🏽 About Writer

Great writing for everyone. That's our vision.

We're filling a big need for a writing assistant that's built ground-up for the needs of professional users and teams. Writing really is the last unstructured business process. Our roadmap is an exciting combination of deepening functionality for team leaders and extending functionality for end users — helping them be more effective and efficient in their writing.

🛣 Traction and backing

• Our customers include Twitter, Intuit, UiPath, Pinterest, and InVision. It's a great community of writers, content strategists, copyeditors, and editorial leaders. They are a true community and the content vanguard. We have a NRR of +130% and we're just getting started.

• Our funnel is large and growing fast (+1M visitors/month, thousands of weekly trial starts). This is important, as you'll have nearly instant feedback on the features you'll be building or the growth experiments you'll be running.

• We're backed by the best funds in the game and a world-class group of founders, operators, and angels. (Series A not yet announced 🤫 but we will share more when we meet.)

🎯 Why it's the perfect time to join

• We're 50 people. There's a lot of room to contribute and grow an enduring SaaS company. You will have unquestionably made it happen.

• We have strong PMF. We have strong DAUs and deep usage. People spend hours in Writer. The work you'll do will have a direct impact on some of the top companies in the world — as well as users who depend on us to sharpen their writing.

• Build it, nail it, scale it. We're at 'nail it.' If you like helping turn dirt paths into smooth roads, now is the perfect time to join. We've grown 5x and are running fast towards aggressive — and achievable — milestones.

📐 About this role

With Writer, you'll be working closely with the founders and the engineering team to build, manage, and scale a product that tens of thousands of people rely on every day.

As a senior backend engineer, you’ll take over a key part of the Writer product and work collaboratively to deliver new features and ship strong improvements to existing ones. We’re looking for someone with great product sensibilities who can take an opinionated stance and communicate it clearly. 

 You’ll need solid knowledge of Scala.

 You’ll get to build things the right way: we’re beyond quick hacks. You’ll also own the process end-to-end: our engineers build, deploy, and maintain their code.

🦸🏻‍♀️ Your responsibilities

• Work closely with our product team to design and develop new features

• Contribute to an early, special team and help us build on our strong engineering culture 

• Lead technical discussions and come up with innovative ways to improve the product and our processes

• Troubleshoot issues with product, technologies, and infrastructure (we’re on GCP)

⭐️ Is this you?

• BS in Computer Science, Math, or Engineering

• 4+ years of Scala programming experience

• Deep understanding of microservices and hands-on experience implementing them at scale

• Experience building high capacity, high traffic, high availability applications

• Strong skills in data engineering

And:

• Proactive communication skills, both sync and async

• Set the highest possible bar for what you ship: it’s consumer-grade or bust

• A love for good writing

🍩 Benefits

We don’t spend frivolously, but we do take care of our own. Besides smart, sincere colleagues and a vibrant work environment, we are proud to offer:

• Employer-covered medical plans, dental, vision, and life insurance

• FSA

• Competitive parental leave policy (parents actually work here!)

• Generous PTO

• Company stock options

• 401k plan with employer matching

• Flexible schedules

Writer is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity. We don't make hiring or employment decisions based on race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law. Under the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.