React Job: Back End Engineer

Grammarly team members who will be collaborating in Berlin must be based in Germany, Poland, or Portugal.

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 Front-End Software Engineers to join our engineering teams. Front-End Engineers will ship user-focused interfaces and work closely with Product and Design teams while collaborating with many other functional teams across the Engineering organization.

Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. Read more about our stack or hear from our team on our technical blog.

Your impact

Grammarly is growing rapidly. There are opportunities to join a team where you can learn from experienced peers, and opportunities to build product offerings and teams from the ground up. Within our growing engineering organization, there is plenty of room for ownership and direct impact on users.

As a Front-End Software Engineer at Grammarly, you will:

• Ship production-grade code to over 30 million daily active users.
• Grow and maintain the team’s technical excellence by harnessing practices that are best for the team and product.
• Contribute to the technical culture of the company.
• Harness engagement metrics to identify and build new impactful features.
• Work on fun and technically challenging projects to deliver impactful apps on popular browsers.
• Use React and TypeScript while building super refined and elegant user interfaces.
• Make a meaningful impact on the lives of writers everywhere!

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 solid software engineering fundamentals, including knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
• Has solid knowledge of JavaScript (and/or TypeScript), HTML, and CSS.
• Has experience with ReactJS, AngularJS, or similar UI frameworks.
• Is ready to tackle infrastructure challenges when needed.
• Knows modern web client development and testing tools.
• Has a good understanding and practical knowledge of continuous integration and delivery methods.

Bonus points for

• Functional programming experience.
• Past experience running experiments or A/B tests to test product hypotheses.

Support for you, professionally and personally

• Professional growth: We hire people we trust, and we give team members autonomy to do their best work. We also support professional development with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
• A connected team: Grammarly builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. We have a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER values. We also take time to celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific events and programs.
• Comprehensive benefits: Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing superior health care (including mental health benefits). We also offer support to set up a home office, ample and defined time off, gym and recreation stipends, and more.

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply. Grammarly is an equal opportunity company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnic origin, religion or belief, gender, disability, sexual identity, or age.

For more details about the personal data Grammarly collects during the recruitment process, for what purposes, and how you can address your rights, please see the Grammarly Data Privacy Notice for Candidates here.