Engineering Manager, Grammarly
Platform
1-5 days a week in office
AI-powered writing assistant
Be an early applicant
AI-powered writing assistant
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Grammarly's mission is to improve lives by improving communication.
Role
Who you are
- Has a strong track record of building and leading productive engineering teams
- Can systematically break down ambiguous problems and build execution plans
- Demonstrates strong technical judgment on engineering architecture and product decisions
- Leads by example and sets the right context for decisions
- Builds strong relationships with their direct reports and peers across the company
- Nurtures their team’s talent and raises the technical talent bar when recruiting for their team
- Sets and communicates priorities for themselves and their team while driving execution
- Cares deeply, not only about the work but also how that work is accomplished
- Thrives in environments where it’s necessary to make decisions with incomplete information but can change course when presented with new data
- Is curious and has a learning mindset
- Expertise in infrastructure or developer productivity would be a plus
- Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable
- Is inspired by our MOVE principles, which are the blueprint for how things get done at Grammarly: move fast and learn faster, obsess about creating customer value, value impact over activity, and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust
- Is able to meet in person for their team’s scheduled collaboration weeks, traveling if necessary to the hub where their team is based
What the job involves
- To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Engineering Platform team.
- This role will manage and grow the team of engineers who build and scale our foundational infrastructure and develop best-in-class tooling to support all of Grammarly Engineering
- Grammarly’s Engineering Platform organization builds the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that will centralize and standardize infrastructure and core services management, allowing engineers to focus on delivering business value without getting bogged down by low-level complexities.
- We aim to ensure that every engineer can easily build, develop, and maintain any Grammarly product offering using our IDP.
- This role is instrumental in building an efficient engineering organization, which is critical to realizing our vision of improving lives by improving communication
- Lead and grow teams by attracting high-caliber senior talent
- Hire, develop, and manage engineers by fostering a psychological safety, diversity, and inclusion culture. The role is essential in creating a highly productive, healthy, and enjoyable working environment for the team
- Work with multiple complex technical domains (cloud infrastructure, developer tools, high-load production systems, shared infrastructure) and organizational contexts (engineering autonomy and productivity, incident management, security, reliability, etc.)
- Collaborate with various stakeholders across the engineering organization and beyond and manage different dependencies
- Research and act based on feedback from the engineering team to improve the Developer Productivity
- Guide the team to build and operate services at an internet scale with high availability, reliability, and security
Our take
From professional writing to everyday correspondence, effective communication is critical. Grammarly is an AI-powered writing assistant that helps people write clearly and without mistakes, checking spelling, grammar, and other potential pitfalls.
Grammarly was originally launched as a subscription service for students, although the platform has moved into the mainstream in the last decade. It went freemium in 2015 and now works across more than 500,000 applications and websites including email clients, enterprise software, and word processors. Paid tiers give users more tools beyond grammar and spelling checks to include things like word choice, sentence rewrites, tone adjustments, fluency, and formality level.
The company has been profitable since the beginning and now has a valuation of more than $13 billion, placing it among the 10 most valuable startups in the US. The AI writing assistant space is heating up, and Grammarly is hoping to defend its positions against offerings including Scalenut, Ginger and Microsoft's Editor by the release of its SDK, making it far easier to integrate Grammarly into other applications. So far this has been used in over 4,000 products and earned excellent ratings and increased user numbers of Grammarly's service.
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back within 2 weeks
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2021
$200m
LATE VC
Oct 2019
$90m
LATE VC
Total funding: $400m
Company benefits
- Support for professional development with training, coaching, and regular feedback
- Global, local, and team-specific events and programs
- Catered lunches
- Gym and recreation stipends
- Admission discounts
- Work from home opportunities
- Medical, dental, vision, financial, and other benefits, as well as equity
- Support to set up a home office
- Ample and defined time off
- 401(k) matching
Company values
- Ethical - Be honorable and earn trust by doing the right thing even when no one is watching, every time.
- Adaptable - Embrace change to evolve and succeed, with a positive, problem-solving attitude.
- Gritty - Achieve with passion and perseverance for goals, by doing whatever it takes to get the job done, whenever it’s necessary.
- Empathetic - Treat others as they want to be treated to work well together, by actively listening to put yourself in their shoes and then responding accordingly.
- Remarkable - Always be learning to develop quickly and be exceptional yet humble, by continually seeking out mentors and learning opportunities.
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Alex Shevchenko
(Board Member)Studied at Vienna's International University before receiving an MBA from the University of Toronto. Co-founded MyDropBox.com in 2006. The company was bought by Blackboard Inc. three years later. Co-founded Grammarly in 2009.
Max Lytvyn
(Head of Revenue & Board Member)Studied for an MBA at Vanderbilt University before joining Blacboard Inc. as Director of Product Strategy in 2007. Was General Manager and then Partner at Sciworth Labs from 2004 to 2013. Was a Board Member at Uniweb and invested in farmland investment platform FarmTogether.
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