Software Engineer, Front-End (Product Platform)

Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model. Team members work primarily remotely in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, or Poland. Certain roles have specific location requirements to facilitate collaboration at a particular Grammarly hub.

All roles have an in-person component: Conditions permitting, teams meet 2–4 weeks every quarter at one of Grammarly’s hubs in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a workspace in Kraków. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that fosters trust and unlocks creativity.

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 an exceptional and experienced Front-End Software Engineer to join our Product Platform team. This role, and the rest of the team, will be responsible for building out Grammarly’s internal product platforms, which will allow internal teams to build Grammarly experiences into our product at scale, and also unlock opportunities to leverage external partnerships for Grammarly.

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 Front-End Software Engineer on the Product Platform team, you’ll make a significant impact on writing outcomes for millions of users. You’ll also help drive business metrics by delivering existing and new Grammarly experiences to more users.

In This Role You Will

• Be responsible for shipping Grammarly platform features from conception to design, prototype, implementation, and launch.
• Build delightful developer experiences comprising of effective landing pages, easy-to-use integration configuration panels, informative documentation portals, and insightful dashboards.
• Join a new team and focus on building solutions for new market segments.
• Work closely with partners to understand requirements, brainstorm, and prototype solutions.
• Build protective measures against API misuse and incorporate rigorous security controls to protect end users’ data.
• Create an engineering culture with a strong emphasis on documentation, testing, and user experience.
• Develop, publish, and maintain JavaScript libraries that allow developers to integrate on to our client platform while defining powerful yet easy-to-use JavaScript APIs.
• Work with back-end and infrastructure technologies.
• Help establish long-term relationships between Engineering teams at Grammarly and partner companies.
• Have the unique opportunity to help build the Product Platform Engineering team from the ground up through interviewing, onboarding, and mentoring new team members.

We’re Looking For Someone Who

• Has experience working on fast-paced teams.
• Experience addressing feature requests and bug reports.
• Is able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Cares about the end-user experience and strives to ensure high quality.
• Has a solid understanding of browser APIs and JavaScript or TypeScript, along with experience with frameworks like React or Vue.
• Has—as a bonus—experience supporting or working with a developer community.
• Has a good knowledge of computer-science fundamentals, algorithms, and data structures.
• Has 3+ years of experience working on developer platforms, either 1P and 3P, a highly scalable consumer product, or enterprise SaaS product.

Support for you, professionally and personally

• 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.
• 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.

Compensation And Benefits

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

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

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: $226,000 - $308,000/year (USD)

Zone 2: $203,000 - $277,000/year (USD)

Zone 3: $192,000 - $262,000year (USD)

Zone 4: $181,000 - $246,000/year (USD)

Canada

Zone 1: $186,000 - $276,000/year (CAD)

Zone 2: $158,000 - $235,000/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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All team members meeting in person for official Grammarly business or working from a hub location are strongly encouraged to be vaccinated against COVID-19.