The Opportunity

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for Back-End Software Engineers to join our engineering teams.

Superhuman'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. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.

As a Back-End Engineer at Superhuman, you will play a critical role in building core parts of the Superhuman product offering, infrastructure, and features to help 30 million users write more clearly and effectively every day.

As a Back-End Engineer, you will:

Start building and pushing code in your first week and ship impactful features in your first few months. Build and support production services with high call rates.  Target high availability for consumer and enterprise customers.  Learn how to build infrastructure as code (IaC). Collaborate widely with internal teams such as Core, Growth, Enterprise, Trust, and Data to deliver delightful product offerings to our customers.  Contribute to an engineering culture with a strong emphasis on documentation, testing, and user experience. Evaluate the systems and technology in place today while proposing systems and architecture that can scale for the future.  Have the opportunity to mentor new hires.

Qualifications

Has 5+ years of relevant experience in back-end development. Displays excellent software engineering fundamentals, including knowledge of algorithms and data structures. Demonstrates perseverance when faced with tough technical issues. Has some experience with AWS or other cloud offerings (GCP, Azure, etc.). Has experience building, deploying, and debugging production systems at scale. Cares about the end-user experience and strives to ensure high quality. Has a demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal guidance, proactively manages tasks and priorities across multiple projects, analyzes and executes work efficiently, collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams, and thrives in fast-paced, results-driven environments. Has a demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal guidance, proactively manages tasks and priorities across multiple projects, analyzes and executes work efficiently, collaborates effectively with cross-functional teams, and thrives in fast-paced, results-driven environments.

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.  A connected team: Superhuman 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. We work to foster belonging among team members in a variety of ways. This includes our team member resource groups, Superhuman Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities including BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs.