Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model. Team members can work primarily remotely in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, Poland, and Portugal. Conditions permitting, teams will meet in person a few weeks every quarter at one of Grammarly's hubs, currently in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a shared workspace in Krakow.

Grammarly team members in this role must be based in the United States or Canada.

The opportunity 

Grammarly empowers people to thrive and connect, whenever and wherever they communicate. Every day, 30 million people and 30,000 teams around the world use our AI-powered writing assistant. 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 a Back-End Engineer to join our Identity team. The Identity team has an important mission impacting millions of Grammarly users. The team is responsible for how people sign in to and sign up for Grammarly every day and for a variety of complex systems that work behind the scenes to ensure that no user account gets compromised. The team works on a massive scale, has to leverage a lot of data, runs many experiments, and constantly adapts to match ever-changing external threats.

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 Back-End Engineer on the Identity team, you will:

  • Build, own, and scale mission-critical back-end services that power authentication and authorization for all Grammarly users and handle billions of requests daily.
  • Create state-of-the-art adaptive authentication systems to automatically detect and prevent account abuse on a massive scale.
  • Come up with new user-facing features to provide account security insights and controls as well as new, secure, and simple ways to log in and sign up with Grammarly.
  • Build user provisioning and management capabilities for enterprise customers.
  • Develop scalable, extendable, and elegant APIs consumed by every single Engineering team at Grammarly.
  • Work with our current tech stack (AWS, Java/Scala, MySQL, DynamoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Terraform) and be ready to bring new tools to solve new problems.

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 5+ years of experience working with distributed systems and high-load microservices.
  • Has a strong understanding of scalability and performance of large systems.
  • Has general knowledge of security best practices for web applications.
  • Is interested in diving deep into the security and identity domains and learning about various standards (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SSO, SCIM) and vulnerabilities (CSRF, injections, XSS).
  • Has experience working with Java and AWS or similar languages and platforms. 
  • Has a strong sense of ownership, can navigate ambiguity well, and has a bias toward action.

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, 401(k) matching, and more.
  • For Colorado-based employment: The salary range for this position is $111,000 – $239,000/year; however, base pay offered may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The compensation package includes a wide range of medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits, as well as equity.

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, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US Federal E-Verify program.

Grammarly currently supports the long-term work of team members in the following US states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania (Kennett Township, New London Township, Pittsburgh City, Shaler Township), South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington, as well as the District of Columbia 

Grammarly currently supports the long-term work of team members in the following Canadian provinces: British Columbia, Ontario 

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Please note that Grammarly’s COVID-19 vaccination policy requires that all team members in North America be vaccinated against COVID-19 to meet in person for Grammarly business or to work from a North America hub location. It is expected that this will be a requirement for this role. Qualified candidates in North America who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons or because of a sincerely held religious belief may request a reasonable accommodation to this policy. For Europe, this policy requires team members to be vaccinated or produce a daily negative COVID-19 test administered on-site to work from the hub or attend in-person meetings.

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