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Lead Software Engineer, Product Backend

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Glean

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United States , San Francisco Bay Area

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Salary:

140000.00 - 265000.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

Glean is looking for creative engineers to own and launch delightful user facing features. In a rapidly growing startup, this entails developing ideas with product managers and designers to best balance engineering constraints with requirements, delivering intuitive experiences that run in modern mobile and desktop browsers.

Job Responsibility:

  • Oversee the entirety of your greenfield features from inception to implementation, experimentation, launch and beyond
  • Revolutionize the current experience by incorporating AI into the product
  • Provide leadership and mentor more junior engineers
  • Work with designers, product managers, data scientists, and other engineers to understand our problem space and create elegant solutions
  • Architect REST APIs that are backed by stable, scalable server side implementations and maximize web client flexibility for rapidly meeting evolving product requirements
  • Write robust code that’s efficient, easy to read, maintain and test

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of experience in product engineering with 2 years as a TL/M
  • BA/BS in computer science, or related degree
  • Experience of building and shipping scalable features across frontend and backend
  • Thrive in a customer-focused, tight-knit and cross-functional environment
  • A proactive and positive attitude to lead, learn, troubleshoot and take ownership of both small tasks and large features
  • A user-centric and empathetic mentality for building products
  • Experience on a consumer grade web app frontend, preferably React based
  • Love authoring easy-to-hold and future-proof REST APIs, OpenAPI is a plus
  • Experience building distributed CRUD level functionality, ideally both SQL and NoSQL
  • Comfortable in or desire to master Golang, Java and TypeScript
What we offer:
  • Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage
  • generous time-off policy
  • opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan
  • home office improvement stipend
  • annual education and wellness stipends
  • vibrant company culture through regular events
  • healthy lunches daily

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 06, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
Hybrid work
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