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# Software Engineer, Product Backend

- **Company:** Glean, Ai
- **Location:** United States
- **Salary:** $140,000.0 - $265,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Web Servers, NoSQL, SQL Databases, Openapi, Backend, Information Technology, Production Code, Restful APIs, Golang, Crud
- **Published:** October 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/software-engineer-product-backend-glean-website-5529313

## About the Role

* BA/BS in computer science, or related degree
 * Experience of building and shipping scalable features in the backend

Key knowledge and skills

 * 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 in building scalable & maintainable backend systems
 * 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 and Java

## 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.
You will:

 * Oversee the entirety of your greenfield features from inception to implementation, experimentation, launch and beyond
 * 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
 * Mentor more junior engineers or learn from battle tested ones