Remote Software Engineer, Back End

Summary

Join our team as a Back-End Software Engineer to build core parts of the Grammarly product offering, infrastructure, and features. You will play a critical role in building high-quality services with high call rates, targeting high availability for consumer and enterprise customers.

Requirements

• Has 3+ years of relevant 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 some experience with AWS or other cloud offerings (GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Has experience building, deploying, and debugging production systems at scale
• Cares about the end-user experience and strives to ensure high quality
• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable
• Is inspired by our MOVE principles, which are the blueprint for how things get done at Grammarly: move fast and learn faster, obsess about creating customer value, value impact over activity, and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust
• Is able to meet in person for their team’s scheduled collaboration weeks, traveling if necessary to the hub where their team is based

Responsibilities

• 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
• Have the opportunity to mentor new hires