Software Engineer, Back-End (Marketing Technology)

Grammarly team members in this role must be based in the United States or Canada, and they must be able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub(s) where the team is based.

The opportunity 

Every day, tens of millions of people and 50,000 professional teams worldwide trust Grammarly’s AI and human expertise to help ideate, compose, revise, and comprehend communications. Our team members have the autonomy to take on exciting challenges in pursuit of our mission to improve lives by improving communication. Together, we’re building on more than a decade of steady growth and profitability. We’re defining the communication assistance category with our tailored service offerings: Grammarly Free, Grammarly Premium, Grammarly Business, and Grammarly for Education. Our latest product offering, GrammarlyGO, brings the power of generative AI to our users. It all begins with our team collaborating in an inclusive, values-driven, and learning-oriented environment.

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Back-End Software Engineer to join our Marketing Technology team. The Marketing Technology team is responsible for building systems that empower and enhance the company's marketing efforts and strategies. Our focus is on developing a robust messaging platform, creating systems that optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of paid channels, and streamlining data sharing between Grammarly's infrastructure and third-party services. Join us in our mission to consistently elevate the ROI of our marketing initiatives!

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

As a Backend Software Engineer, you will help scale Grammarly’s user base more quickly and efficiently. By leveraging data from our various advertising platforms (e.g., Google Ads, Bing Ads, Facebook Ads) and go-to-market stack (e.g., Salesforce and Pardot), you will create opportunities for prospective users to discover our product offerings. You will also work closely with our different functional teams, including Demand Generation, Paid Acquisition, Affiliates, Lifecycle Marketing, and Revenue Operations, as well as our Engineering teams, such as Cloud Infrastructure, ML Infrastructure, Billing, Identity, and Enterprise Platform, to increase user conversion and ultimately drive user engagement.

In this role, you will:

• Design the architecture to support our massive marketing and sales engines.
• Build tools that will enable us to achieve more efficient spending.
• Open revenue streams related to our promotional channels.
• Collaborate with both our B2B and B2C teams to propel profitable growth.

We’re looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
• Has 6+ years of experience working in an enterprise SaaS environment and, as a plus, has practical experience delivering sales and marketing projects. 
• Has experience with distributed systems, microservices, and API platforms, as well as an understanding of data storage and migration strategies.
• Has experience designing and building integrations between first-party and third-party applications and services. 
• Can build web applications or services in Java. 
• Knows security best practices for web applications and internal systems. 
• Has a history of partnering with both technical and non-technical stakeholders and communicating trade-offs related to spending and bandwidth.

Support for you, professionally and personally

• Professional growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being. We support professional development and advancement 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. Our remote-first hybrid model enables a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER (ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable) values. We work to foster belonging among team members in a variety of ways. This includes our employee resource groups, Grammarly Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities, such as BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs. 

Compensation and benefits

Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more: 

• Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
• Disability and life insurance options
• 401(k) and RRSP matching 
• Paid parental leave
• Twenty days of paid time off per year, eleven days of paid holidays per year, and unlimited sick days 
• Home office stipends
• Caregiver and pet care stipends
• Wellness stipends
• Admission discounts
• Learning and development opportunities

Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US and Canada locations are categorized into compensation zones based on each geographic region’s cost of labor index. For more information about our compensation zones and locations where we currently support employment, please refer to this page. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information. 

Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future. 

United States:

Zone 1: $262,000 – 290,000/year (USD)

Zone 2: $236,000 – 260,000/year (USD)

Zone 3: $223,000 – 245,000/year (USD)

Zone 4: $210,000 – 233,000/year (USD)

Canada:

Zone 1: $216,000 – 250,000/year (CAD)

Zone 2: $184,000 – 215,000/year (CAD)

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations—to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).

Please note that EEOC is optional and specific to US-based candidates.

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