Senior Backend Engineer, Superhuman

$140-150k

Our compensation band reflects the potentially broad range of candidates and experience levels that we are open to hiring for this role.

Kubernetes

Redis

Postgres

Senior level

Remote from Canada, US

Speedy email experience

Job no longer available

Speedy email experience

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceCommunicationSaaSAutomation

Job no longer available

$140-150k

Our compensation band reflects the potentially broad range of candidates and experience levels that we are open to hiring for this role.

Kubernetes

Redis

Postgres

Senior level

Remote from Canada, US

101-200 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceCommunicationSaaSAutomation

Company mission

To provide the fastest email client in the world.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Experience: You have 3+ years of backend development experience and 5+ years of software development experience
Detective: You have a deep desire to understand how things work in great detail, to guide you in designing systems, and debugging that arise
Problem solver: You excel at understanding and solving complex problems. You have astonishing attention to detail
Quality focused: You take pride in building elegant and beautiful things
Learning: You're open to the best tool for the job. You are excited to learn new technologies
Technical communicator: You can break down tricky topics in writing and in person
Surprisingly efficient: You get a lot done quickly, and can translate your skills into new processes that your team will follow
Leadership: You will help to build an inclusive culture and shape our future
Location: We're open to you joining us from a home office anywhere in Latin America + Canada

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.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

37% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.6)

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Aug 2021

$75m

SERIES C

May 2019

$38.1m

SERIES B

Total funding: $113.1m

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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