Software Engineer (Product Backend)
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- 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
- 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
- BA/BS in computer science, or related degree
- Experience of building and shipping scalable features in the backend
- Experience building distributed CRUD level functionality, ideally both SQL and NoSQL
- Love authoring easy-to-hold and future-proof REST APIs, OpenAPI is a plus
- Comfortable in or desire to master Golang and Java
- Thrive in a customer-focused, tight-knit and cross-functional environment
- Experience in building scalable & maintainable backend systems
- 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