Software Engineer, Product Backend

Glean•Mountain View, CA

9h•$140,000 - $265,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Glean is looking for creative engineers to own and launch delightful user facing features. In a rapidly growing startup, this entails developing ideas with product managers and designers to best balance engineering constraints with requirements. You will: Oversee the entirety of your greenfield features from inception to implementation, experimentation, launch and beyond Work with designers, product managers, data scientists, and other engineers to understand our problem space and create elegant solutions Architect REST APIs that are backed by stable, scalable server side implementations and maximize web client flexibility for rapidly meeting evolving product requirements Write robust code that’s efficient, easy to read, maintain and test Mentor more junior engineers or learn from battle tested ones

Requirements

BA/BS in computer science, or related degree
Experience of building and shipping scalable features in the backend
Thrive in a customer-focused, tight-knit and cross-functional environment
A proactive and positive attitude to lead, learn, troubleshoot and take ownership of both small tasks and large features
A user-centric and empathetic mentality for building products
Experience in building scalable & maintainable backend systems
Love authoring easy-to-hold and future-proof REST APIs, OpenAPI is a plus
Experience building distributed CRUD level functionality, ideally both SQL and NoSQL
Comfortable in or desire to master Golang and Java

Responsibilities

Oversee the entirety of your greenfield features from inception to implementation, experimentation, launch and beyond
Work with designers, product managers, data scientists, and other engineers to understand our problem space and create elegant solutions
Architect REST APIs that are backed by stable, scalable server side implementations and maximize web client flexibility for rapidly meeting evolving product requirements
Write robust code that’s efficient, easy to read, maintain and test
Mentor more junior engineers or learn from battle tested ones