Software Engineer, Front-End (Identity)

Grammarly team members in this role must be based in the United States or Canada.

Grammarly empowers people to thrive and connect, whenever and wherever they communicate. Every day, over 30 million people and 50,000 teams around the world rely on our AI-powered communication assistance technology. 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 experienced Front-End Engineer to join our Identity team. The Identity team has an important mission impacting millions of Grammarly users. The team is responsible for how people sign in to and sign up for Grammarly every day and for a variety of complex systems that work behind the scenes to ensure that no user account gets compromised. The team works on a massive scale, has to leverage a lot of data, runs many experiments, and constantly adapts to match ever-changing external threats.

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.

The Identity and Authentication team at Grammarly provides Customer and Identity Access Management solutions across our whole business that is designed to manage customer identities. It’s responsible, at scale, for login and authentication, data privacy, and providing a fast, frictionless and secure customer experience.

As a Front-End engineer, you will 

• Within your first 30 days, you will work with team members and peer on other teams to develop a complete understanding of Grammarly’s web architecture & technologies. You will also review changes from other engineers and develop an understanding of the deployment/testing/release process. 
• Within the first three months, you’ll ship a new user-facing feature offering our users additional security controls or additional challenges to prevent unauthorized.
• Within the first six months, you will form an opinion on the technical challenges and areas for improvement in our codebase. You will also propose new ideas for user-facing features and experiments.

• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
• Has at least five combined years working as a Web Front-end or Client (.NET, Swift, Kotlin) engineer.
• Has strong foundational knowledge of web technologies (HTML, CSS, JS).
• Has expertise in modern front-end frameworks (React experience preferred).
• Has well-developed product intuition and strong user empathy.
• Has strong technical acumen and the ability to tackle ambiguous problems.
• Has general knowledge of security best practices for web applications. And interested in diving deep into the security and identity domains and learning about various standards (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SSO, SCIM) and vulnerabilities (CSRF, injections, XSS).

• Professional growth: We hire people we trust and 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, 401(k) matching, and more.
• For Colorado-based employment: The salary range for this position is $111,000 - $239,000/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.

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, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer, a participant in the US Federal E-Verify program (US), and abides by the Employment Equity Act (Canada). 

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 EEOC is optional and specific to US-based candidates

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