Software Engineer, Back-End (Intelligence Features)

<p><em>Grammarly is excited to offer a <a href="https://www.grammarly.com/blog/remote-first-hybrid-work-model/" target="_blank">remote-first hybrid working model</a>. Team members can work primarily remotely in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, or Portugal. Conditions permitting, teams will meet in person a few weeks every quarter at one of Grammarly's hubs in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a workspace in Kraków. </em></p> <p><em>We believe this balanced, flexible approach gives our team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that fosters trust, unlocks creativity, and further fuels innovation.</em></p><h3><strong>The opportunity </strong></h3> <p>Every day, tens of millions of people and 50,000 professional teams rely on Grammarly’s AI-enabled communication assistance to help them communicate confidently and achieve their goals. 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 for individuals, enterprises, and developers with tailored service offerings: <a href="https://www.grammarly.com/premium">Grammarly Premium</a>, <a href="https://www.grammarly.com/business/free-trial?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_phase=GB&amp;utm_campaign=GB_Brand_Exact_Global&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiAvqGcBhCJARIsAFQ5ke7vpJwa3I9Mexp_WnI_yEaDHPvgwTefDYcjibA15aNGaae_0B96jecaAi89EALw_wcB&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds">Grammarly Business</a>, <a href="https://www.grammarly.com/edu">Grammarly for Education</a>, and <a href="https://developer.grammarly.com/">Grammarly for Developers</a>. All of this begins with our team collaborating in an inclusive, values-driven, and learning-oriented environment.</p> <p>To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Back-End Software Engineer to join our Intelligence Features team. We are a cross-functional team consisting of engineers with different areas of expertise (JavaScript, .NET, Swift), and we are looking for a strong engineer to join our back-end efforts. </p> <p>As the Intelligence Features team, working on the majority of client-facing applications at Grammarly (The Grammarly Editor, the Grammarly browser extension, Grammarly for Windows, Grammarly for Mac), we collaborate with many Grammarly engineers, product managers, and designers. Our work has the potential to impact millions of Grammarly users.</p> <p>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 <a href="https://www.grammarly.com/jobs/engineering">our stack</a> or hear from our team on our <a href="http://grammarly.com/blog/engineering">technical blog</a>.</p> <h3><strong>Your impact</strong></h3> <p>As a Back-End Software Engineer on the Intelligence Features team, you will:</p> <ul> <li>Work on our core APIs that process billions of sentences a day. </li> <li>Work on high-availability scaling and performance problems.</li> <li>Work with core Grammarly features, like its plagiarism checker, to improve their performance.</li> <li>Work in a cross-functional team with FE, .NET, and Swift engineers to build new features.</li> <li>Experiment and build software that is ready to be adjusted to new requirements.</li> <li>Build integrations with third parties’ uni-/bi-directional connections.</li> <li>Build enterprise SaaS features to bring Grammarly’s world-class products to both consumer and business audiences.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>We’re looking for someone who</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.</li> <li>Is able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.</li> <li>Brings at least three years of experience in back-end development, ideally using Java or other JVM languages.</li> <li>Has the ability to translate business processes and logic into scalable and performant code that involves interactions with databases, caching layers, or other services and/or APIs.</li> <li>Understands the principles and best practices of developing software systems at a large-scale level.</li> <li>Is able to collaborate in person for 2–4 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.</li> <li>Has some experience with AWS or other cloud offerings such as GCP and Azure.</li> <li>Has a “never-give-up” mindset when faced with tough technical issues.</li> <li>Listens to others and communicates empathetically to collaborate toward common goals.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Support for you, professionally and personally</strong></h3> <ul> <li><em>Professional growth: </