Senior Backend Engineer

SUPERHUMAN 👉

We exist so that professionals end each day feeling happier, more productive, and closer to achieving their potential.

Today we are…

• The fastest email experience in the world
• Loved and adored: see what our customers say

Our customers get through their inboxes twice as fast; many see inbox zero for the first time in years.

Come shape the future of email, communication, and productivity!

BUILD LOVE 💜

At Superhuman, we deeply understand how to build products that people love. We incorporate fun and play; we infuse magic and joy; we make experiences that amaze and delight.

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It all starts with the right team — a team that deeply cares about values, customers, and each other.

CREATE MASSIVE IMPACT 🚀

We're not solving a small problem, and we're not addressing a small market. We're going after email; the one activity that consumes more of our work day than any other.

Our ambition doesn't stop there. Next: calendars, notes, contacts, and tasks. We are building the productivity platform of the future.

DO THE BEST WORK OF YOUR LIFE 🌟

We have created the frameworks for how to build product market fit and redefined the narrative of how to onboard customers successfully. We have shown the world it’s possible to build a premium productivity brand. Our investors include Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital, IVP, Tiger Global Management, Sam Altman, and the founders of Gmail, Dropbox, Reddit, Discord, Stripe, GitHub, AngelList, and Intercom.

This time, we’re swinging beyond the fences and fundamentally rethinking how individuals and teams should collaborate. We are building a household brand and a worldwide organization. We are here to do the best work of our lives, and we hope you are too.

As a Senior Backend Engineer in the AI Pod, you will build and improve the architecture supporting Superhuman’s AI features. You will collaborate closely with engineers across diverse skill sets and work with tools and systems such as Pub/Sub, PostgreSQL, Redis, LLMs, Vector Databases, and more.

ROLE 👩🏽‍💻👨‍💻

• Design, develop, and scale backend 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 backend system
• Become an expert in backend 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

SOUND LIKE YOU? 🙌

• Experience: You have 8+ years of software development experience, with 4+ years focused on backend development. You’re an expert in Go, Typescript, or Python. You have deep expertise in architecting for performance and scale.
• 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 unblock others and speed things up.
• 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 action is the catalyst for progress and growth.
• Location: We're open to you joining us from a home office anywhere in North or South America, with a preference for those based in Canada or Latin America (to continue building our engineering presence within these regions).
• Growth Mindset: You embrace challenges, welcome feedback, and believe you and others can always grow.

SALARY INFO 💸

The Senior Software Engineer role spans several internal levels and a wide breadth of experience at Superhuman. Our compensation band reflects the potentially broad range of candidates and experience levels that we are open to hiring for this role.

Our salaries for this role range from $125,000 - $150,000+ USD ($177,982 - $213,578+ CAD | ARS$127,202,125 - ARS$152,642,550+ | R$637,500 - R$906,360+). The salary range does not reflect total compensation, which includes base salary, benefits, and company stock options.

We are open to candidates based in North or South America, with a preference for those based in Canada or Latin America. We take a locally informed approach to non-US-based compensation and will be able to share ranges based on your country of residence.

BENEFITS 🎁

Taking Care of Your Future 🙏

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance: 100% coverage for you and 75% coverage for all your dependents.
• Voluntary insurance: short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
• 🇺🇸 US-based employees: 401(k) plan (we match 75 cents per dollar, up to 4% of your salary).
• 🇨🇦 Canadian-based employees: A stipend for your RRSP up to 3% of your salary.
• Free access to Northstar, a financial wellness platform that provides financial advisors + personal finance tools.

Generous Time Off 🏝

• Enjoy our generous and flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) policy, with our amazing team members taking an average of 20 days per year.
• 13 additional company holidays, plus your own Care Days, Flexible Holidays, and a company-wide Winter Break.
• Generous parental, caregiver, healthcare, and compassionate leave policies.

Investing in Your Growth ✍️

• $3000 USD per year towards your professional development.
• Free access to Calm and Aaptiv
• Allyship education program to help build your best self.

Setting You Up For Success 🧑🏻‍💻👩🏾‍💻

• Custom MacBook Pro.
• $1000 USD budget for workstation setup.
• $260 USD/month for your lunches, groceries, or whatever nutrition you need to stay fueled up!
• Flexible spending accounts for commuter costs, dependent care, and healthcare expenses.

At Superhuman, we value diversity. We are an equal-opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.