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Superhuman

Software Engineer, Front-End

Superhuman San Francisco; Hybrid 10h ago
engineering

Superhuman offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.

About Superhuman

Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, 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.

The Opportunity

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for Front-End Software Engineers to join our Engineering teams. Front-End engineers will ship user-focused interfaces and work closely with Product and Design teams while collaborating with many other functional teams across the Engineering organization.

Superhuman'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. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.

Superhuman is growing rapidly. There are opportunities to join a team, learn from experienced peers, and build product offerings and teams from the ground up. Within our growing engineering organization, there is plenty of room for ownership and direct impact on users.

As a Front-End Software Engineer at Superhuman, you will:

  • Ship production-grade code to over 40 million daily active users.
  • Grow and maintain the team’s technical excellence by harnessing best practices for the team and product.
  • Contribute to the technical culture of the company.
  • Harness engagement metrics to identify and build new impactful features.
  • Work on fun and technically challenging projects to deliver impactful apps on popular browsers.
  • Use React and TypeScript while building super refined and elegant user interfaces.
  • Collaborate widely with internal teams such as Core, Growth, Enterprise, Trust, and Data to deliver delightful product offerings to our customers.
  • Make a meaningful impact on the lives of writers everywhere!

Qualifications

  • 5+ Years of experience.
  • Web programming: Expert knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
  • Security: Understanding common vulnerabilities in web apps and how to avoid/eliminate them.
  • Defining/using APIs: Can work with back-end engineers to define and consume APIs to build new interfaces.
  • Results orientation: Getting things done.
  • Modern JS frameworks: Experience building apps using React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, etc.
  • Translating design to pixel-perfect UI: Understands the constraints of responsive design across various screen sizes or input methods.
  • Has 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
Bonus points for:
  • TypeScript
  • RxJS
  • Functional programming

Compensation and Benefits

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.

Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future

 
Zone 1: $175,000 – $240,000/year (USD)

We encourage you to apply

At Superhuman, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Superhuman is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).

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