Software Engineer

Superhuman LLC
San Francisco, CA, United States
1 day ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
8 years minimum
Compensation
$186,000.0 - $300,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Continuous Integration Data Structures Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements) Software Debugging Software Engineering User Environment Management Real Time Systems System Availability Backend Event Driven Architecture
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Api Design

Job description

Superhuman’s engineers have the freedom to innovate and shape the product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale AI-powered features across every surface. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog. As a Back-End Engineer, you will:

  • Build and operate high-throughput production services that power AI agent orchestration, connector integrations, and real-time data pipelines.
  • Design and build core platform services to allow our systems to scale
  • Work across the Superhuman product suite - whether that’s Go, Mail, Docs, or Enterprise - depending on where you and the team see the best fit.
  • Collaborate closely with ML/AI, Product, and Front-End engineers to ship AI-powered features end to end.
  • Build and evolve infrastructure as code, targeting high availability for both consumer and enterprise customers.
  • Contribute to an engineering culture with a strong emphasis on documentation, testing, and reliability.
  • Mentor and grow junior engineers on the team.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in back-end development, with strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and system design.
  • Experience building, deploying, and debugging production systems at scale.
  • Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms (GCP, Azure).
  • Fluency with AI coding tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) and a point of view on how they change the way teams build software.
  • Experience with real-time systems, event-driven architectures, or high-throughput API design is a plus.
  • Deep understanding of CI/CD and infrastructure as code.
  • Demonstrated ability to work independently, manage priorities across multiple projects, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
  • Strong product instincts - you care about the end-user experience and can make good tradeoffs between speed and reliability.

Benefits & conditions

Superhuman offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more:

  • Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
  • Disability and life insurance options
  • 401(k) and RRSP matching
  • Paid parental leave
  • 20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time
  • Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
  • Annual professional development budget and opportunities

Superhuman takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations.

About the company

Superhuman offers a remote-flexible working model for this particular role on the Mail team. This gives team members plenty of focus time and the flexibility to do their best work from wherever they’re based, while staying closely connected to a collaborative, tight-knit team culture. For those based in San Francisco, New York City, or Seattle, a hybrid setup is also available.

About Superhuman

Superhuman is the 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. The company’s products include Grammarly’s writing assistance, Coda’s collaborative workspaces, Mail’s inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that understands context and delivers help automatically. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters. Learn more at superhuman.com and about our values here. The Opportunity

Superhuman is building the AI productivity platform that works everywhere people do, and Superhuman Mail is central to how people communicate and get work done. Today we are…The fastest email experience in the world

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