Overview

Grammarly is looking for an experienced backend engineer to lead and mentor our growing engineering team. We are building a top-class automated English proofreader powered by a wide range of digital might and magic.

Our goal as a company is to launch products that delight users. We ship and iterate very quickly, deploying new code at least daily. Our back-end infrastructure and services are a critical component of our product experience, and we need engineers who are excited about improving and scaling our platform; we already have millions of users and are growing exponentially.

What you will do:  

• Work closely with Product Managers and other teams to build and launch new user-facing features and support existing ones

• Design, develop, and deploy backend services with a focus on high availability, low latency, and scalability. Example of such services include user management, authentication, and billing – critical functions that support our main products

• Work closely with DevOps team to build new utility services and backbone APIs and also performance-tune and monitor critical services

• Build instrumentations to measure and evaluate features and system metrics to drive an awesome user experience and rock-solid service performance

• Work with the following set of technologies: GitHub, AWS, Jetty, Gradle, MySQL, Redis, Memcached.

• Code primarily using Java, but we don’t confine ourselves to a single programming language. We believe in using the best tool for the job while maintaining a bias toward the tools the team knows the best. We have components in Java, Erlang, Python, Lisp, and server-side Javascript

• Lead and help grow the San Francisco engineering team for Grammarly

• Provide significant contribution to technical architecture and engineering processes