The opportunity Grammarly empowers people to thrive and connect, whenever and wherever they communicate. More than 30 million people and 30,000 teams around the world use our AI-powered writing assistant every day. All of this begins with our team collaborating in a values-driven and learning-oriented environment. To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for Back-End Software Engineers to join our engineering teams. As a Back-End 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. - Target high availability for consumer and enterprise customers. - Learn how to build infrastructure as code (IaC). - Collaborate widely with internal teams 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. We’re looking for someone who - Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable. - Is able to collaborate in person 2–4 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based. - Brings at least three years of experience in back-end development, ideally using Java or other JVM languages. - Displays excellent software engineering fundamentals, including knowledge of algorithms and data structures. - Demonstrates perseverance when faced with tough technical issues. - Has some experience with AWS or other cloud offerings (GCP, Azure, etc.). - Has experience building, deploying, and debugging production systems at scale. - Cares about the end-user experience and strives to ensure high quality.