Software Engineer, Product Backend

Glean is an innovative AI-powered knowledge management platform that helps organizations quickly find, organize, and share information. They are seeking a Software Engineer to develop user-facing features, oversee the implementation of greenfield projects, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to create elegant solutions.

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

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