Software Engineer, Back-End

San Francisco; Hybrid 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 alongside in-person collaboration that fosters trust, innovation, and a strong team culture. Superhuman team members in this role must be based in San Francisco. About Superhuman 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 [superhuman.com](https://superhuman.com) and about our [values here](https://superhuman.com/values). The Opportunity To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for experienced Back-End Software Engineers to join our engineering teams. 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 40 million users write more clearly and effectively every day. Superhuman 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 [technical blog](https://superhuman.com/technical-blog). Superhuman is growing rapidly. There are opportunities to join a team, learn from experienced peers, and build product offerings and teams from the ground up. Within our growing engineering organization, there is plenty of room for ownership and direct impact on users. In this role, you will:

• Start building and pushing code in your first week and ship impactful features in your first few months.
• Build and support production services with high call rates.
• Target high availability for consumer and enterprise customers.
• Learn how to build infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Collaborate widely with internal teams such as Core, Growth, Enterprise, Trust, and Data to deliver delightful product offerings to our customers.
• Contribute to an engineering culture with a strong emphasis on documentation, testing, and user experience.
• Evaluate the systems and technology in place today while proposing systems and architecture that can scale for the future.
• Mentor engineers across engineering disciplines fostering a culture of collaboration and technical excellence.

Qualifications

• Brings at least eight (8) years of experience in Back-End development ideally using Java or other JVM languages.
• Displays excellent software engineering fundamentals including knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Demonstrates perseverance when faced with tough technical issues.
• Has experience with AWS or other cloud offerings (GCP Azure etc.).
• Has experience building deploying debugging production systems at scale.
• Cares about end-user experience strives to ensure high quality.
• Is a strategic thinker able to evaluate whether to build internally or leverage third-party solutions ensuring right balance between speed scalability long-term viability.
• Is an excellent communicator collaborator able to work across diverse teams stakeholders translates business needs into robust data solutions ensures alignment on technical goals.
• Has demonstrated ability to work independently minimal guidance proactively manages tasks priorities across multiple projects analyzes executes work efficiently collaborates effectively cross-functional teams thrives fast-paced results-driven environments.

We invite you to share your knowledge experience goals with us help find best team match for you Tell us your superpower! Compensation Benefits Superhuman offers all team members competitive pay along benefits package encompassing following more:

• Excellent health care including wide range medical dental vision mental health fertility benefits
• Disability life insurance options