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Design and develop backend systems, improve performance and reliability, collaborate on system evolution, and uphold security standards.
SUPERHUMAN 👉
At Superhuman, we’ve built the fastest email experience in the world — one that's deeply loved and adored by customers who get through their inboxes twice as fast.
📣 We've recently joined forces with Grammarly, the trusted AI assistant for communication and productivity used by over 40 million people and 50,000 organizations worldwide. Together, we’re creating the AI-native productivity suite that will redefine the future of work.
Grammarly is No. 11on the Forbes Cloud 100, one of TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies, and one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in AI. Companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom rely on Grammarly's technology, which integrates seamlessly with over 500,000 applications and websites.
As part of Grammarly's productivity suite, you'll join the Superhuman team in shaping the future of email and communication.
BUILD LOVE 💜At Superhuman, we have a deep understanding of how to build products that people love. We incorporate fun and play, infusing magic and joy to create experiences that amaze and delight.It all starts with the right team — a team that deeply cares about values, customers, and each other.
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
- Experience: You have 5+ 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.
- AI Enthusiast: You believe AI will revolutionize how we work as well as the experiences that we create for our customers. Driven by passion and curiosity, you leverage AI to dramatically increase your own productivity and the impact of your team.
- 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.
- Growth Mindset: You embrace challenges, welcome feedback, and believe you and others can always grow.
SALARY INFO 💸
Superhuman takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location.
Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below and may be modified in the future.
- SF/NY/Seattle: $180,000-$306,000
- Other US geographies: $162,000-$275,000
- Canada: $128,000-$246,000 CAD
- Mexico: $101,000-$199,000 MXN
COME JOIN US 🎟️
We value our differences, and we encourage all to apply — especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. 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 and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).
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Top Skills
Go
GCP
Kubernetes
Postgres
Python
Redis
Typescript
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