Software Engineer, Product Backend

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

About Glean

Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry's most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles.

About Glean

Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industry's most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem, powering intelligent Search, an AI Assistant, and scalable AI agents on one secure, open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors, flexible LLM choice, and robust APIs, Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern, scale, and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles. At its core, Glean is redefining how enterprises find, use, and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people, content, and activity, delivering deeply personalized, context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Glean's agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industry's broadest range of data: enterprise and world, structured and unstructured, historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding, hours of productivity gained each week, and smarter, safer decisions at every level. Recognized by Fast Company as one of the World's Most Innovative Companies (Top 10, 2025), by CNBC's Disruptor 50, Bloomberg's AI Startups to Watch (2026), Forbes AI 50, and Gartner's Tech Innovators in Agentic AI, Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50+ industries and 1,000+ employees in more than 25 countries, we're helping the world's largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent, and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality. If you're excited to shape how the world works, you'll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams, Zoom, ServiceNow, Zendesk, GitHub, and many more. You'll be deeply embedded where people get things done. You'll ship agentic capabilities on an open, extensible stack, with the craft and care required for enterprise trust, as we bring Work AI to every employee, in every company.

About The Role

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

About You

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

Key Knowledge And Skills

• 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

Compensation & Benefits

The standard base salary range for this position is $140,000 - $265,000 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation, Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage, generous time-off policy, and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals. When you join, you'll receive a home office improvement stipend, as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events, and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.

We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.

AI-First Mindset At Glean

At Glean, AI fluency is core to how we work and we're committed to ensuring every new hire feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. As part of the interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about, design, and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today — prior Glean experience isn't required.

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