Software Engineer, Product Backend

Glean Glean · Enterprise · Mountain View, CA · Engineering

Software Engineer, Product Backend at Glean, a Work AI platform company. The role involves owning and launching user-facing features, architecting REST APIs, writing scalable backend code, and mentoring junior engineers. The company focuses on enterprise search, AI assistants, and AI agents powered by its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph.

What you'd actually do

  1. Oversee the entirety of your greenfield features from inception to implementation, experimentation, launch and beyond
  2. Work with designers, product managers, data scientists, and other engineers to understand our problem space and create elegant solutions
  3. Architect REST APIs that are backed by stable, scalable server side implementations and maximize web client flexibility for rapidly meeting evolving product requirements
  4. Write robust code that’s efficient, easy to read, maintain and test
  5. Mentor more junior engineers or learn from battle tested ones

Skills

Required

  • BA/BS in computer science, or related degree
  • Experience of building and shipping scalable features in the backend
  • Experience in building scalable & maintainable backend systems
  • Experience building distributed CRUD level functionality, ideally both SQL and NoSQL
  • Golang and Java

Nice to have

  • OpenAPI is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • own and launch delightful user facing features
  • develop ideas with product managers and designers to best balance engineering constraints with requirements
  • Architect REST APIs
  • stable, scalable server side implementations
  • rapidly meeting evolving product requirements
  • robust code that’s efficient, easy to read, maintain and test
  • building and shipping scalable features in the backend
  • building scalable & maintainable backend systems
  • authoring easy-to-hold and future-proof REST APIs
  • building distributed CRUD level functionality

Other signals

  • AI Assistant
  • AI agents
  • Work AI platform
  • Enterprise Graph
  • Personal Knowledge Graph
  • agentic capabilities