Software Engineer, Back-End

Job Description

Grammarly is seeking a Back-End Software Engineer to join their engineering team. This role offers a hybrid working model, allowing for both focused individual work and in-person collaboration. The engineer will play a crucial role in building core parts of Grammarly's product offering, infrastructure, and features, supporting over 40 million users.

Responsibilities:

• Build and push code, shipping impactful features.
• 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 with internal teams to deliver product offerings.
• Contribute to an engineering culture focused on documentation, testing, and user experience.
• Evaluate existing systems and propose scalable architectures.
• Mentor new hires.

Requirements:

• At least three years of experience in Back-End development, ideally using Java or other JVM languages.
• Excellent software engineering fundamentals, including knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Perseverance when faced with tough technical issues.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud offerings (GCP, Azure, etc.).
• Experience building, deploying, and debugging production systems at scale.
• Concern for the end-user experience and strives to ensure high quality.
• Embodies EAGER values.
• Inspired by MOVE principles.

Grammarly offers:

• Competitive pay.
• Excellent health care.
• Disability and life insurance options.
• 401(k) and RRSP matching.
• Paid parental leave.
• 20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time.
• Generous stipends.
• Annual professional development budget and opportunities.