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Lead Software Engineer, Product Backend

Glean

$140,000 - $265,000
Aug 15, 2025
Palo Alto, CA, US
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Glean is looking for creative engineers to own and launch delightful user facing features, revolutionizing the current experience by incorporating AI into the product.

Requirements

  • Experience of building and shipping scalable features across frontend and backend
  • Experience on a consumer grade web app frontend, preferably React based
  • Love authoring easy-to-hold and future-proof REST APIs, OpenAPI is a plus
  • Experience building distributed CRUD level functionality, ideally both SQL and NoSQL
  • Comfortable in or desire to master Golang, Java and TypeScript

Responsibilities

  • Oversee the entirety of your greenfield features from inception to implementation, experimentation, launch and beyond
  • Revolutionize the current experience by incorporating AI into the product
  • Provide leadership and mentor more junior engineers
  • Work with designers, product managers, data scientists, and other engineers to understand our problem space and create elegant solutions
  • Architect REST APIs that are backed by stable, scalable server side implementations and maximize web client flexibility for rapidly meeting evolving product requirements
  • Write robust code that’s efficient, easy to read, maintain and test

Other

  • 5+ years of experience in product engineering with 2 years as a TL/M
  • BA/BS in computer science, or related degree
  • Thrive in a customer-focused, tight-knit and cross-functional environment
  • A proactive and positive attitude to lead, learn, troubleshoot and take ownership of both small tasks and large features
  • A user-centric and empathetic mentality for building products