Software Engineer, Backend (Superhuman Mail)

SUPERHUMAN MAIL 👉

At Superhuman, we’ve built the fastest email experience in the world — one that's deeply loved and adored by customers who get through their inboxes twice as fast.

📣 Superhuman Mail, Grammarly, and Coda are now part of the Superhuman Suite, an AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite of apps and agents brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. Learn more at superhuman.com and about our values here.

BUILD LOVE 💜

At Superhuman, we have a deep understanding of how to build products that people love. We incorporate fun and play, infusing magic and joy to create experiences that amaze and delight. It all starts with the right team — a team that deeply cares about values, customers, and each other.

ROLE 👩🏽‍💻👨‍💻

• Design, develop, and scale back-end systems that serve millions of users
• Power amazing user experiences by building new features and improving existing ones
• Evaluate and refine solutions to deliver a highly performant and exceptionally reliable back-end system
• Become an expert in back-end development and expand your development across the stack and to various platforms
• Collaborate across teams to define how our systems should evolve
• Support code quality, new technologies, and architectural design within the company
• Uphold and advance the security and reliability of Superhuman’s systems
• Technologies we use: Go, Postgres, Redis, Kubernetes, Google Cloud

SOUND LIKE YOU? 🙌

• Experience: You have 5+ years of software development experience, with at least 4 years focused on back-end development. You’re an expert in Go, TypeScript, or Python. You have deep expertise in architecting for performance and scale.
• AI Enthusiast: You believe AI will revolutionize not only how we work but also the experiences we create for our customers. Driven by passion and curiosity, you leverage AI to dramatically increase your own productivity and the impact of your team.
• Remarkable Quality: You produce work that is striking, worthy of attention, and a contribution to the state of the art.
• Asynchronous Communicator: You’re effective across various mediums (especially Slack, Notion, and email) and can produce and consume detailed written materials as needed without sacrificing speed. You respond quickly and thoughtfully to help others and expedite the process.
• Start-to-Finish Ownership: Acts with 100% responsibility for their own outcomes as well as the outcomes of the company.
• Bias to action: Speed matters. Takes rapid and decisive steps forward, even in the face of uncertainty, recognizing that action is the catalyst for progress and growth.
• Growth Mindset: You embrace challenges, welcome feedback, and believe you and others can always grow.
• You have 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.

• SF/NY/Seattle: $180,000-$306,000
• Other US geographies: $162,000-$275,000
• Canada: $128,000-$246,000 CAD
• Mexico: $1,928,000-$2,762,000 MXN
• Brazil: R$562,000-R$806,000 BRL
• Argentina: $103,000-$147,000 USD