Backend Engineer, Product APIs & Platforms

Glean; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Vision coverage

Dental coverage

Home office stipend

Education stipend

Wellness stipend

Daily lunches

Job summary

Glean is seeking creative engineers to own and launch delightful user-facing features within a rapidly growing startup. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and data scientists to balance engineering constraints with evolving requirements.

You will oversee greenfield features from inception to launch, architect scalable REST APIs, and write maintainable, robust code while mentoring junior engineers in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in computer science, or related degree.
• Experience of building and shipping scalable features in the backend.

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

Skills

REST APIs

OpenAPI

SQL

NoSQL

Golang

Java

Backend design

Cross-functional

Customer-focused

Ownership

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science

Job description

Glean is seeking creative engineers to own and launch delightful user-facing features within a rapidly growing startup. You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and data scientists to balance engineering constraints with evolving requirements.

You will oversee greenfield features from inception to launch, architect scalable REST APIs, and write maintainable, robust code while mentoring junior engineers in a fast-paced environment.