Software Engineer, Backend (Acquisition & Activation)

Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model. Team members work primarily remotely in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, or Poland. Certain roles have specific location requirements to facilitate collaboration at a particular Grammarly hub.

All roles have an in-person component: Conditions permitting, teams meet 2–4 weeks every quarter at one of Grammarly’s hubs in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a workspace in Kraków. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that fosters trust and unlocks creativity.

Grammarly team members in this role must be based in the United States or Canada, and they must be able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub(s) where the team is based.

The opportunity 

Every day, tens of millions of people and 50,000 professional teams worldwide trust Grammarly’s AI and human expertise to help ideate, compose, revise, and comprehend communications. Our team members have the autonomy to take on exciting challenges in pursuit of our mission to improve lives by improving communication. Together, we’re building on more than a decade of steady growth and profitability. We’re defining the communication assistance category with our tailored service offerings: Grammarly Free, Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Business, and Grammarly for Education. Our latest product offering, GrammarlyGO, brings the power of generative AI to our users. It all begins with our team collaborating in an inclusive, values-driven, and learning-oriented environment.

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Senior Back-End Engineer to join our Growth Acquisition & Activation Team. The person in this role will be responsible for designing and developing systems to drive user growth. The Acquisition & Activation Team is responsible for bringing new customers to Grammarly and ensuring that they have a strong and successful onboarding experience with the product. 

Grammarly’s 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. Read more about our stack or hear from our team on our technical blog.

Your impact

As Back-End Engineer on the Growth team, you will support the building of net new services to support our growth experimentation roadmap. You will work on projects that drive meaningful business impact for Acquisition & Activation - i.e. bringing new users to Grammarly’s product offerings and ensuring that these new users successfully start using Grammarly’s large feature set. Your work will have a direct impact on Grammarly’s customers and the company’s key business metrics. Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Building net new services to support contextually-relevant activation messages for customers.
• Supporting backend work for building LLM-powered website tools geared toward acquiring new users.
• Supporting key backend services for the Growth team.
• Mentoring and developing other engineers on the team in backend development.

We’re looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
• Is highly collaborative with other engineers and non-technical stakeholders. 
• Keeps user empathy top of mind. 
• Has substantial experience with Java, as well as experience with Scala, AWS, and other web services.
• Has the ability to persevere through challenging technical challenges.
• Has a strong analytical mindset and an ability to find feasible solutions given sets of requirements and constraints.

Support for you, professionally and personally

• Professional growth: We believe that au