Software Engineer, Product Backend

Join to apply for the Software Engineer, Product Backend role at Glean Join to apply for the Software Engineer, Product Backend role at Glean About Glean Founded in 2019, Glean is an innovative AI-powered knowledge management platform designed to help organizations quickly find, organize, and share information across their teams. By integrating seamlessly with tools like Google Drive, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, Glean ensures employees can access the right knowledge at the right time, boosting productivity and collaboration. The company’s cutting-edge AI technology simplifies knowledge discovery, making it faster and more efficient for teams to leverage their collective intelligence. About Glean Founded in 2019, Glean is an innovative AI-powered knowledge management platform designed to help organizations quickly find, organize, and share information across their teams. By integrating seamlessly with tools like Google Drive, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, Glean ensures employees can access the right knowledge at the right time, boosting productivity and collaboration. The company’s cutting-edge AI technology simplifies knowledge discovery, making it faster and more efficient for teams to leverage their collective intelligence. Glean was born from Founder & CEO Arvind Jain’s deep understanding of the challenges employees face in finding and understanding information at work. Seeing firsthand how fragmented knowledge and sprawling SaaS tools made it difficult to stay productive, he set out to build a better way - an AI-powered enterprise search platform that helps people quickly and intuitively access the information they need. Since then, Glean has evolved into the leading Work AI platform, combining enterprise-grade search, an AI assistant, and powerful application- and agent-building capabilities to fundamentally redefine how employees work. 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. Seniority level Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Employment type Full-time Job function Job function Engineering and Information Technology Industries Software Development Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Glean by 2x Get notified about new Software Engineer jobs in Palo Alto, CA . 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