Senior Backend Software Engineer, Superhuman
$130-200k
Salary dependant on location
Speedy email experience
Job no longer available
Speedy email experience
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$130-200k
Salary dependant on location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide the fastest email client in the world.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: You have 8+ years of software development experience, with 3+ years focused on backend development. You’re an expert in Go, Typescript, or Python. You have deep expertise in architecting for performance and scale
- 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. You respond quickly and thoughtfully to unblock others and speed things up
- Grit: You persevere towards challenging goals which may take months or years
- Growth Mindset: You embrace challenges, welcome feedback, and believe you and others can always grow
- Start-to-Finish Ownership: Acts with 100% responsibility for their own outcomes as well as the outcomes of the company
- Proactive Positivity: You move on from challenges stronger and happier and bring care and intention to how your words and actions make others feel
- 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
- Location: We're open to you joining us in our San Francisco office or from a home office anywhere in North or South America
What the job involves
- 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
- Technologies we use: Go, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, Google Cloud
Our take
We spend a staggering upwards of 3 hours a day buried in our emails. The majority of us are used to legacy giants like Gmail or even Hotmail. Superhuman recognizes that our email UX could just be a lot more beautiful and efficient, and have integrated smart features like “unsend” so we never have to suffer the embarrassment of another typo.
Although standing out in a market of free services (they charge a $30 per month fee), Superhuman commanded a waiting list of over 250,000 during its beta testing phase.
With more than $100 million in overall funding from firms like Andreessen Horowitz and First Round Capital, Superhuman is setting trends in emerging enterprise software with both its design and go-to-market strategy. They’ve managed to steal an audience from the big players by giving users something beautiful and more streamlined to work with. Its 2024-released feature is a testament to this, which generates instant reply suggestions for emails that are smart, context-aware and efficient.
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Insights
37% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$75m
SERIES C
May 2019
$38.2m
SERIES B
Total funding: $113.2m
Company benefits
- Friday wins: a weekly event where entire teams gather to share what they have accomplished during that week
- Super buddies: in your first week you are paired with an experienced team member outside your team to help you settle and show you the ropes
- Lunch roulette: Every Wednesday, teams are split into random groups of two or three to grab lunch outside the office
- 401k
- Flexible parental leave
- $3000 per year towards your professional development
- Allyship education program to help build your best self
- Custom MacBook Pro
- $3000 budget for workstation setup
- All your lunches catered or expensed
- Flexible spending accounts for commuter costs, dependent care, and healthcare expenses
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Rahul Vohra
(CEO & Co-Founder)Before founding Superhuman, Rahul was a Technical Advisor for BOLDstart Ventures, which provides seed and first-round funding to early-stage internet companies. Rahul has also been an investor in Partender, sendwithus, EasyPost, Placer and YesGraph.
Conrad Irwin
(CTO & Co-Founder)After founding Rapportive, which added context and transparency to emails, Conrad worked as a Senior Software Engineer for Linkedin. Before co-founding Superhuman, they were the VP of Engineering for Bugsnag, an automatic crash detector for web and mobile apps.
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