Software Engineer, Back-End (Grammarly for Developers)

Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model . Team members can work primarily remotely in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, and Portugal. Conditions permitting, teams will meet in person a few weeks every quarter at one of Grammarly's hubs, currently in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a shared workspace in Krakow.
Grammarly team members in this role must be based in the United States or Canada.
The opportunity
Grammarly empowers people to thrive and connect, whenever and wherever they communicate. Every day, 30 million people and 30,000 teams 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 t o join our Grammarly for Developers team. This role, and the rest of the team, will be responsible for building out Grammarly's new product offering, which will not only allow other companies to build a Grammarly experience into their product but also unlock an opportunity to leverage partnerships for Grammarly.
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 Grammarly for Developers team, you'll make a significant impact on writing outcomes for millions of users and help drive business metrics by delivering existing and new Grammarly experiences to a lot more users via Grammarly for Developers.
In this role you will:

• Be responsible for shipping Grammarly platform features from conception to design, prototype, implementation, and launch.
• Define easy-to-use yet powerful external, developer-facing APIs, and provide developer tooling and documentation to enable an exceptional experience for developer integration.
• Develop-and support in production-stateful back-end services with extreme request rates and high SLA requirements.
• Build protective measures against API misuse, and incorporate rigorous security controls to protect end users' data.
• Work closely with partners to understand requirements, brainstorm, and prototype solutions.
• Join a new team and focus on building a solution for a new market segment.
• Have the unique opportunity to help build the Grammarly for Developers Engineering team from the ground up, including through interviewing and mentoring new team members.
• Help establish long-term relationships between Engineering teams at Grammarly and partner companies.
• Build and support production services with high call rates and target high availability for Grammarly for Developers customers.
• Have the opportunity to work with front-end technologies.
• Create an engineering culture with a strong emphasis on documentation, testing, and user experience.

We're looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values-is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is able to collaborate in person 2-4 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
• Has 6+ years of experience working in a highly scalable consumer product or enterprise SaaS environment.
• Has exceptional knowledge in computer-science fundamentals, algorithms, data structures, and modern programming languages-and Java experience is a huge plus.
• Has experience working on fast-paced teams.
• Knows how to build complex systems on top of AWS infrastructure.
• Cares about the end-user experience and strives to ensure high quality.
• Has-as a plus-experience developing external-facing APIs implementing authentication, security, and abuse-prevention controls.
• Has-also as a plus-experience supporting an open-source community and addressing feature requests and bug reports from OSS users.

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 encompassing superior health care (including mental health benefits). We also offer support to set up a home office, ample and defined time off, gym and recreation stipends, admission discounts, and more.
• For Colorado-based employment: The salary range for this position is $192,000- $286,000/year; however, base pay offered may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The compensation package includes a wide range of medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits, as well as equity.

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 applicable law. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US Federal E-Verify program.
Grammarly currently supports the long-term work of team members in the following US states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania (Kennett Township, New London Township, Pittsburgh City, Shaler Township), South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington, as well as the District of Columbia
Grammarly currently supports the long-term work of team members in the following Canadian provinces: British Columbia, Ontario
Please note that Grammarly's COVID-19 vaccination policy requires that all team members in North America be vaccinated against COVID-19 to meet in person for Grammarly business or to work from a North America hub location. It is expected that this will be a requirement for this role. Qualified candidates in North America who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons or because of a sincerely held religious belief may request a reasonable accommodation to this policy. For Europe, this policy requires team members to be vaccinated or produce a daily negative COVID-19 test administered on-site to work from the hub or attend in-person meetings.
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