Senior Backend Engineer, Superhuman
$125-150k
Salary shown for US, for Canada: $177,982 - $213,578 CAD. + Stock options
Speedy email experience
Open for applications
Speedy email experience
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$125-150k
Salary shown for US, for Canada: $177,982 - $213,578 CAD. + Stock options
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 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
- 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. You respond quickly and thoughtfully to unblock others and speed things up
- 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
- Location: We're open to you joining us from a home office anywhere in North or South America, with a preference for those based in Canada or Latin America (to continue building our engineering presence within these regions)
- Growth Mindset: You embrace challenges, welcome feedback, and believe you and others can always grow
What the job involves
- As a Senior Backend Engineer in the AI Pod, you will build and improve the architecture supporting Superhuman’s AI features
- You will collaborate closely with engineers across diverse skill sets and work with tools and systems such as Pub/Sub, PostgreSQL, Redis, LLMs, Vector Databases, and more
- 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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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2021
$75m
SERIES C
May 2019
$34.4m
SERIES B
Total funding: $109.4m
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 values
- Creative delight
- Be intentional
- Remarkable quality
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
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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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