Senior Software Engineer, Back-End

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Engineering ∙ Hybrid - San Francisco
Superhuman offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time alongside in-person collaboration that fosters trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.    
 
Superhuman team members in this role must be based in San Francisco. 
 

About Superhuman

Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, the AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite of apps and agents brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. The company’s products include Grammarly’s writing assistance, Coda’s collaborative workspaces, Mail’s inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that understands context and delivers help automatically. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters. Learn more at superhuman.com.

The Opportunity

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for experienced Back-End Software Engineers to join our engineering teams. As a Back-End Engineer at Superhuman, you will play a critical role in building core parts of the Superhuman product offering, infrastructure, and features to help 40 million users write more clearly and effectively every day. 

Superhuman 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. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.

Superhuman is growing rapidly. There are opportunities to join a team, learn from experienced peers, and build product offerings and teams from the ground up. Within our growing engineering organization, there is plenty of room for ownership and direct impact on users.

In this role, you will:

  • Start building and pushing code in your first week and ship impactful features in your first few months.
  • 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 widely with internal teams, such as Core, Growth, Enterprise, Trust, and Data, to deliver delightful product offerings to our customers. 
  • Contribute to an engineering culture with a strong emphasis on documentation, testing, and user experience.
  • Evaluate the systems and technology in place today while proposing systems and architecture that can scale for the future. 
  • Mentor engineers across engineering disciplines, fostering a culture of collaboration and technical excellence.

Qualifications

  • Brings at least eight (8) years of experience in Back-End development, ideally using Java or other JVM languages.
  • Displays excellent software engineering fundamentals, including knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
  • Demonstrates perseverance when faced with tough technical issues.
  • Has experience with AWS or other cloud offerings (GCP, Azure, etc.). 
  • Has experience building, deploying, and debugging production systems at scale.
  • Cares about the end-user experience and strives to ensure high quality.
  • Is a strategic thinker, able to evaluate whether to build internally or leverage third-party solutions, ensuring the right balance between speed, scalability, and long-term viability.
  • Is an excellent communicator and collaborator, able to work across diverse teams and stakeholders, translates business needs into robust data solutions, and ensures alignment on technical goals.
  • Has a demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal guidance, proactively manages tasks and priorities across multiple projects, analyzes and executes work efficiently, collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams, and thrives in fast-paced, results-driven environments.

We invite you to share your knowledge, experience, and goals with us to help us find the best team match for you. Tell us your superpower!

Compensation and Benefits

Superhuman offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more: 

  • Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
  • 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 (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
  • Annual professional development budget and opportunities
Superhuman takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations.
 
Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future.
 
Zone 1: $225,000 - $275,000/year (USD)

We encourage you to apply

At Superhuman, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Superhuman is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).

 

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