Grammarly empowers people to thrive and connect, whenever and wherever they communicate. Every day, 30 million people and 30,000 teams around the world use our AI-powered writing assistant. 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 a Software Engineer with a keen interest in Clojure and natural language processing (NLP), and a background in JVM-based languages and distributed systems, to join our Core Language team. The majority of the problems Grammarly’s NLP team is tackling haven’t already been solved elsewhere, which provides the opportunity for creativity and innovative problem-solving. This individual will build high-load services for NLP and provide tooling for computational linguists and applied researchers.
Your impact
As a Clojure Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to harness your passion for building exciting new product offerings that will impact millions of lives. You will need to stay up-to-date on the quickly evolving field of NLP while also focusing on building production systems.
In this role, you will:
Create and own services for our NLP infrastructure that serves millions of users every day.
Tackle architectural and design challenges to help our systems scale effortlessly while keeping the complexity in check.
Implement fault-tolerant and well-monitored solutions that meet the demand for excellence.
Work with a team of computational linguists, researchers, and software engineers to build a variety of natural language processing solutions.
Contribute to the technical culture of the company.
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.
Has 3+ years of experience in any JVM-based programming language.
Aspires to learn Clojure and use it every day.
Understands the principles of building reliable distributed systems.
Has experience working with public clouds: AWS and GCP—Terraform would be a plus.