Software Engineer, Front-End (Grammarly for Developers)

Grammarly

Grammarly

Software Engineering
Posted on Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model. Team members work primarily remotely in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, or Poland. Certain roles have specific location requirements to facilitate collaboration at a particular Grammarly hub.

All roles have an in-person component: Conditions permitting, teams meet 2–4 weeks every quarter at one of Grammarly’s hubs in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a workspace in Kraków. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that fosters trust and unlocks creativity.

Grammarly team members in this role must be based in the United States or Canada, and they must be able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub(s) where the team is based.

The opportunity

Every day, tens of millions of people and 50,000 professional teams rely on Grammarly’s AI-enabled communication assistance to help them communicate confidently and achieve their goals. Our team members have the autonomy to take on exciting challenges in pursuit of our mission to improve lives by improving communication. Together, we’re building on more than a decade of steady growth and profitability. We’re defining the communication assistance category for individuals, enterprises, and developers with tailored service offerings: Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Business, Grammarly for Education, and Grammarly for Developers. All of this begins with our team collaborating in an inclusive, values-driven, and learning-oriented environment.

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for an exceptional and experienced Front-End Software Engineer to join our Grammarly for Developers team. This role, and the rest of the team, will be responsible for building out Grammarly’s new product offering, which will not only allow other companies to build a Grammarly experience into their product, but also unlock an opportunity to leverage partnerships for Grammarly.

Grammarly’s 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. Read more about our stack or hear from our team on our technical blog.

Your impact

As a Front-End Software Engineer on the Grammarly for Developers team, you’ll make a significant impact on writing outcomes for millions of users. You’ll also help drive business metrics by delivering existing and new Grammarly experiences to more users via Grammarly for Developers.

In this role you will:

  • Be responsible for shipping Grammarly platform features from conception to design, prototype, implementation, and launch.
  • Develop, publish, and maintain JavaScript libraries that allow external developers to integrate with Grammarly while defining powerful yet easy-to-use JavaScript APIs.
  • Build a delightful developer-platform experience comprising effective landing pages, easy-to-use integration configuration panels, informative documentation portals, and insightful dashboards.
  • Build protective measures against API misuse and incorporate rigorous security controls to protect end users’ data.
  • Work closely with partners to understand requirements, brainstorm, and prototype solutions.
  • Join a new team and focus on building solutions for a new market segment.
  • Have the unique opportunity to help build the Grammarly for Developers Engineering team from the ground up through interviewing, onboarding, and mentoring new team members.
  • Help establish long-term relationships between Engineering teams at Grammarly and partner companies.
  • Work with back-end and infrastructure technologies.
  • Create an engineering culture with a strong emphasis on documentation, testing, and user experience.

We’re looking for someone who

  • Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
  • Is able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
  • Has 3+ years of experience working on a popular OSS project, developer platform, highly scalable consumer product, or enterprise SaaS product.
  • Has a solid understanding of browser APIs and JavaScript or TypeScript, along with experience with frameworks like React or Vue.
  • Has a good knowledge of computer-science fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures.
  • Has experience working on fast-paced teams.
  • Cares about the end-user experience and strives to ensure high quality.
  • Has—as a bonus—experience supporting a developer community.
  • Has—also as a bonus—experience addressing feature requests and bug reports.

Support for you, professionally and personally

  • Professional growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being. We support professional development and advancement with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
  • A connected team: Grammarly builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. Our remote-first hybrid model enables a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER (ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable) values. We work to foster belonging among team members in a variety of ways. This includes our employee resource groups, Grammarly Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities, such as BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs.

Compensation and benefits

Grammarly 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
  • Twenty days of paid time off per year, eleven days of paid holidays per year, and unlimited sick days
  • Home office stipends
  • Caregiver and pet care stipends
  • Wellness stipends
  • Admission discounts
  • Learning and development opportunities

Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US and Canada locations are categorized into compensation zones based on each geographic region’s cost of labor index. For more information about our compensation zones and locations where we currently support employment, please refer to this page. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.

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.

United States:
Zone 1: $226,000 - $308,000/year (USD)
Zone 2: $203,000 - $277,000/year (USD)
Zone 3: $192,000 - $262,000year (USD)
Zone 4: $181,000 - $246,000/year (USD)
Canada:
Zone 1: $186,000 - $276,000/year (CAD)
Zone 2: $158,000 - $235,000/year (CAD)

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations—to apply. 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. Grammarly 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).

Please note that EEOC is optional and specific to US-based candidates.

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All team members meeting in person for official Grammarly business or working from a hub location are strongly encouraged to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

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