Software Engineer, Full-Stack

Superhuman; Seattle, San Francisco (WA, CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401(k) & RRSP matching

Parental leave

Paid time off

Holidays

Floating holidays

Sick time

Stipends

Professional development

Job summary

Superhuman is hiring a Full-Stack Engineer to join our engineering teams, working across Front-End and Back-End to build core product features, infrastructure, and improvements for millions of users.

You will join a fast-paced environment with opportunities to influence product roadmap, scale systems, and mentor new teammates while enjoying a hybrid work model and meaningful collaboration across departments.

Qualifications

• Three+ years of full-stack development experience.
• Strong fundamentals in algorithms and data structures.
• Ability to tackle infrastructure challenges when needed.
• Keep up with modern web client development and testing tools.
• Experience building, deploying, and debugging production systems at scale.
• Demonstrates persistence with tough technical issues.
• Focus on end-user experience and high quality.
• Able to manage tasks across multiple projects with minimal guidance.

Responsibilities

• Start building and shipping code in the first week to deliver impactful features.
• Build and support production services on the back-end and rich user interfaces on the front-end.
• Aim for high availability for both consumer and enterprise customers.
• Learn to build infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Collaborate with Core, Growth, Enterprise, Trust, and Data teams to deliver value.
• Contribute to a culture of documentation, testing, and user experience.
• Evaluate current systems and propose scalable future architectures.
• Mentor new hires when opportunities arise.

Skills

Full-Stack dev

Algorithms

Web fundamentals

Production systems

Independent worker

Cross-functional

Testing & docs

Job description

Superhuman offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.

About Superhuman

Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, the AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite of apps and agents brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. The company’s products include Grammarly’s writing assistance, Superhuman Docs’s collaborative workspaces, Mail’s inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that understands context and delivers help automatically. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters. Learn more at superhuman.com and about our values here.

The Opportunity

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for Full-Stack Software Engineers to join our engineering teams. As a Full-Stack Engineer at Superhuman, you will play a critical role in building core parts of the Superhuman product offering, infrastructure, and features to help 40 million users write more clearly and effectively every day. You’ll have the opportunity to work across both Front-End and Back-End, contributing to highly visible, impactful projects.

Superhuman 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. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.

Superhuman is growing rapidly. There are opportunities to join a team, learn from experienced peers, and build product offerings and teams from the ground up. Within our growing engineering organization, there is plenty of room for ownership and direct impact on users.

As a Full-Stack Engineer, you will:

• Start building and pushing code in your first week and ship impactful features in your first few months.
• Build and support production services with high call rates on the Back-End and develop rich user interfaces on the Front-End.
• Target high availability for consumer and enterprise customers.
• Learn how to build infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Collaborate widely with internal teams such as Core, Growth, Enterprise, Trust, and Data to deliver delightful product offerings to our customers.
• Contribute to an engineering culture with a strong emphasis on documentation, testing, and user experience.
• Evaluate the systems and technology in place today while proposing systems and architecture that can scale for the future.
• Have the opportunity to mentor new hires.

Qualifications

• Brings at least three years of experience in Full-Stack development.
• Displays excellent software engineering fundamentals, including knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Is ready to tackle infrastructure challenges when needed.
• Keeps modern web client development and testing tools in mind.
• Has experience building, deploying, and debugging production systems at scale.
• Demonstrates perseverance when faced with tough technical issues.
• Cares about the end-user experience and strives to ensure high quality.
• Has a demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal guidance, proactively manages tasks and priorities across multiple projects, analyzes and executes work efficiently, collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams, and thrives in fast-paced, results-driven environments.

We invite you to share your knowledge, experience, and goals with us to help us find the best team match for you. Tell us your superpower!

Compensation and Benefits

Superhuman 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
• 20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time
• Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
• Annual professional development budget and opportunities

Superhuman takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations.

Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined by compensation zone and may be modified in the future.

We Encourage You to Apply

At Superhuman, 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. Superhuman 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).