Superhuman, now part of Grammarly, is looking to build and scale backend systems to power an exceptionally reliable and performant email experience for millions of users, aiming to redefine the future of work with AI-native productivity tools.
Requirements
- You have 5+ years of software development experience, with 4+ years focused on backend development.
- You’re an expert in Go, Typescript, or Python.
- You have deep expertise in architecting for performance and scale.
- Technologies we use: Go, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, Google Cloud
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and scale backend systems that serve millions of users
- Power amazing user experiences by building new features and improving existing ones
- Evaluate and refine solutions to deliver a highly performant and exceptionally reliable backend system
- Become an expert in backend development and expand your development across the stack and to various platforms
- Collaborate across teams to define how our systems should evolve
- Support code quality, new technologies, and architectural design within the company
- Uphold and advance the security and reliability of Superhuman’s systems
Other
- AI Enthusiast: You believe AI will revolutionize how we work as well as the experiences that we create for our customers.
- Remarkable Quality: You produce work that is striking, worthy of attention, and a contribution to the state of the art.
- Asynchronous Communicator: You’re effective across various mediums (especially Slack, Notion, and email) and can produce and consume detailed written materials as needed without sacrificing speed.
- Start-to-Finish Ownership: Acts with 100% responsibility for their own outcomes as well as the outcomes of the company.
- Bias to action: Speed matters. Takes rapid and decisive steps forward, even in the face of uncertainty, recognizing action is the catalyst for progress and growth.
- Growth Mindset: You embrace challenges, welcome feedback, and believe you and others can always grow.
- LI-Hybrid
