Software Engineer, Grammarly
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$225-269k
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AI-powered writing assistant
Job no longer available
AI-powered writing assistant
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$225-269k
Salary is applicable to US candidates only and varies depending on location
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Grammarly's mission is to improve lives by improving communication.
Role
Who you are
- Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable
- Is inspired by our MOVE principles, which are the blueprint for how things get done at Grammarly: move fast and learn faster, obsess about creating customer value, value impact over activity, and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust
- Is able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based
- Design, build, and own processes that structure, enrich, aggregate data, and generate features with sub-hour latency in streaming technologies like Spark, Flink, Kafka, Kinesis etc
- Create and own frameworks, tools, and systems that help other teams build analytics
- Can lead 2-3 engineers in building complex systems and can mentor others
- Can lead design reviews, and be a driving force to change how data is stored and accessed from our analytical data platform
- Has experience with Python, Scala, or Java
- Has experience with designing database objects and writing relational queries
- Has experience designing and standing up APIs and services
- Has experience with system design and building internal tools
- Has good knowledge of and at least some experience with AWS (or, alternatively, has deep expertise in Azure or GCP and is willing to learn AWS in a short time frame)
- Can knowledgeably choose an open source or third-party service to accomplish what they need or, alternatively, can devise a quick and simple solution on their own
What the job involves
- The Data Engineering team has a critical mission to equip all Grammarlians with the data and tools they need to build analytical products and make decisions
- To deal with the massive scale of data, our team employs software design principles to keep our data healthy and freely flowing
- We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer who can lead independently, lead others, and drive projects end to end
- This person will build highly automated, low-latency core datasets to help engineers and end users across Grammarly work with analytical data at scale
- This person will also create tools and own back-end software frameworks, platforms, and tools that other teams can use to build analytics at scale
- Drive improvements to make our analytics effortless by creating and adjusting core data models and storage structures, all while understanding the needs of our users
- Make analytical data and metrics usable within a few minutes of real world events occurring, and build streaming processes for the output derived events and aggregate data
- Model structure, storage, and access of data at very high volumes for our data lake house
- Improve developer productivity and self-serve solutions by contributing components to our stream data processing framework(s)
- Own data engineering's infrastructure-as-code for provisioning services that allow our engineers to deploy mature software installations within a few hours
- Build a world-class process that will allow our systems to scale
- Mentor other back-end engineers on the team and help them grow
- Build and contribute to AWS high-scale distributed systems on the back-end
Our take
From professional writing to everyday correspondence, effective communication is critical. Grammarly is an AI-powered writing assistant that helps people write clearly and without mistakes, checking spelling, grammar, and other potential pitfalls.
Grammarly was originally launched as a subscription service for students, although the platform has moved into the mainstream in the last decade. It went freemium in 2015 and now works across more than 500,000 applications and websites including email clients, enterprise software, and word processors. Paid tiers give users more tools beyond grammar and spelling checks to include things like word choice, sentence rewrites, tone adjustments, fluency, and formality level.
The company has been profitable since the beginning and now has a valuation of more than $13 billion, placing it among the 10 most valuable startups in the US. The AI writing assistant space is heating up, and Grammarly is hoping to defend its positions against offerings including Scalenut, Ginger and Microsoft's Editor by the release of its SDK, making it far easier to integrate Grammarly into other applications. So far this has been used in over 4,000 products and earned excellent ratings and increased user numbers of Grammarly's service.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2021
$200m
LATE VC
Oct 2019
$90m
LATE VC
Total funding: $400m
Company benefits
- Support for professional development with training, coaching, and regular feedback
- Global, local, and team-specific events and programs
- Catered lunches
- Gym and recreation stipends
- Admission discounts
- Work from home opportunities
- Medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits, as well as equity
- Support to set up a home office
- Ample and defined time off
- 401(k) matching
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Alex Shevchenko
(Board Member)Studied at Vienna's International University before receiving an MBA from the University of Toronto. Co-founded MyDropBox.com in 2006. The company was bought by Blackboard Inc. three years later. Co-founded Grammarly in 2009.
Max Lytvyn
(Head of Revenue & Board Member)Studied for an MBA at Vanderbilt University before joining Blacboard Inc. as Director of Product Strategy in 2007. Was General Manager and then Partner at Sciworth Labs from 2004 to 2013. Was a Board Member at Uniweb and invested in farmland investment platform FarmTogether.
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