Software Engineer, Writer
Frontend
+ Company stock options
Office located in Marylebone, London
AI writing assistant
Open for applications
AI writing assistant
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Company stock options
Office located in Marylebone, London
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring generative AI to the enterprise.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for someone with great UX and UI sensibilities who can make thoughtful, beautiful decisions on things usually decided by PMs and designers
- You’ll need solid knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript, HTML, and CSS. We’re also looking for strength in with Mobx, React and Redux
- You’ll be our resident expert on frontend best practices and be a player/coach with the rest of the frontend team
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- 7+ years professional Software engineering experience working on modern web ecosystems
- 5+ years professional experience with Mobx, React, Typescript, Javascript, HTML, RESTful API, CSS, and other front-end technologies
- Proactive communication skills, both sync and async
- Sets the highest possible UX and UI bar for what you ship: it’s consumer-grade or bust
- A love for writing
Desirable
- Experience as a technical lead; making architectural design decisions
- ATOMIC approach, Storybooks
- NX, Github actions, PNPM,
- Conducting Jest/Vite tests and leveraging ESBuild
- Experience with Vue.js
What the job involves
- At Writer, you'll be working closely with the founders and the engineering team to build, manage, and scale a user experience that tens of thousands of people rely on every day
- As a frontend engineer, you’ll build key feature sets for the Writer product, manage our in-house design system, and optimize our frontend code for performance and responsiveness
- Build modular, reusable components and features for Writer’s web app
- Extend our product design system and empower other engineers to build well-designed features efficiently
- Integrate in-house and third party systems via APIs
- Make sure every part of the web app is staggeringly fast
- Work closely with our product team to design and develop new features
- Contribute to an early, special team and help us build on our strong engineering culture
Salary benchmarks
Our take
AI-assisted writing tools have taken off over recent years. With the likes of high-exposure company Grammarly accelerating adoption of such tools, a flurry of startups have appeared to offer their own takes. Writer’s angle is to leverage AI as a means of standardizing and scaling both content and communications for business teams. The tool offers autofilling and inline suggestions that keep content aligned with pre-determined company language and style guides.
This branded fine-tuning function distinguishes it from full copy-generation competitors, as well as from Grammarly itself, which is a more generalist copyediting tool. It subsequently caters to major enterprise clients looking to maintain standards across multiple and sprawling teams, and the company has managed to net major clients like Deloitte, Twitter, UiPath, and Accenture.
While AI-related buzz remains solidly around generative AIs like ChatGPT and Bard, Writer's narrow target market - in which it has already found success - supplies plenty of scope to grow, as AI copyediting tools look set to rapidly become content industry standard. With continued new launches and updates to its offerings as well as an impressive $100 million Series B awarded in 2023, the company is well-placed to seek further success into the future.
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Company Specialist
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2023
$100m
SERIES B
Nov 2021
$21m
SERIES A
Total funding: $126m
Company benefits
- Selection of employer-covered medical plans, plus dental, vision, life insurance, and FSA
- Flexible location and schedule options
- Competitive parental leave policy
- Company stock options
- 401k plan with employer contributions
- Learning and development stipend
- Generous PTO
- Distributed from Day 1: Our processes and operating cadence are built around a distributed culture
- SF office space: If you prefer working from an office, we have a beautiful sunny one in Union Square, the heart of San Francisco
Company values
- Connect: Writer’s success depends on the strength of our relationships. We strive to understand and respect each other on a human level.
- Challenge: We don’t shy away from conflicting points of view. The more diverse the perspectives, the better. Each and every Writer contributor is encouraged to question, challenge, and propose ideas across the business.
- Own: Regardless of role, we’re all owners. We strive to create an impactful, enduring company by building processes and owning outcomes.
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
May Habib
(CEO)Harvard economics graduate, who was previously VP of sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Development Company, and a global shaper at the World Economic Forum. Also co-founded Qordoba.
Waseem Alshikh
(CTO)Previously co-founded CloudAppers, then served as CTO at iMENA. Subsequently co-founded AI content editor Qordoba.
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