The future is already here.
It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Grammarly team members in this role must be based in Germany, Poland, or Ukraine, 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 worldwide trust Grammarly’s AI and human expertise to help ideate, compose, revise, and comprehend communications. 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 with our tailored service offerings: Grammarly Free, Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Business, and Grammarly for Education. Our latest product offering, GrammarlyGO, brings the power of generative AI to our users. It all begins with our team collaborating in an inclusive, values-driven, and learning-oriented environment.

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Back-End Software Engineer to join our Core Product team. We are a cross-functional team consisting of engineers with different areas of expertise (JavaScript, .NET, Swift), and we are looking for a strong engineer to join our back-end efforts.

As the Core Product team, working on the majority of client-facing applications at Grammarly (The Grammarly Editor, the Grammarly browser extension, Grammarly for Windows, and Grammarly for Mac), we collaborate with many Grammarly engineers, product managers, and designers. Our work has the potential to impact millions of Grammarly users.

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 Back-End Software Engineer on the Core Product team, you will:

• Work on our core APIs that process billions of sentences a day.
• Work on high-availability scaling and performance problems.
• Work with core Grammarly features, like the plagiarism checker, to improve performance.
• Work on a cross-functional team with front-end, .NET, and Swift engineers to build new features.
• Experiment and build software that is ready to be adjusted to new requirements.
• Build integrations with third parties’ uni-/bi-directional connections.
• Build enterprise SaaS features to bring Grammarly’s world-class products to both consumer and business audiences.

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.
• Brings at least three years of experience in back-end development, ideally using Java or other JVM languages.
• Has the ability to translate business processes and logic into scalable and performant code that involves interactions with databases, caching layers, or other services and/or APIs.
• Understands the principles and best practices of developing software systems at a large-scale level.
• Has some experience with AWS or other cloud offerings such as GCP and Azure.
• Has a “never-give-up” mindset when faced with tough technical issues.
• Listens to others and communicates empathetically to collaborate toward common goals.

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 also 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 including BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs.
• Comprehensive benefits for candidates based in Germany or Ukraine: Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing life care (including mental health care and risk benefits) and ample and defined time off. We also offer support to set up a home office, wellness and pet care stipends, learning and development opportunities, and more. Note that benefits may differ by location.

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply. Grammarly is an equal opportunity company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnic origin, religion or belief, gender, disability, sexual identity, or age.

For more details about the personal data Grammarly collects during the recruitment process, for what purposes, and how you can address your rights, please see the Grammarly Data Privacy Notice for Candidates here.

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