Glean · 5 hours ago
Lead Software Engineer, Product Backend
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$140K/yr - $265K/yr
5+ years expGlean is a Work AI platform that helps organizations work smarter with AI, evolving from advanced enterprise search to a comprehensive Work AI ecosystem. The Lead Software Engineer will oversee feature development, incorporate AI into products, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to create user-friendly experiences.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Enterprise SoftwareGenerative AIMachine LearningSearch Engine
Responsibilities
Oversee the entirety of your greenfield features from inception to implementation, experimentation, launch and beyond
Revolutionize the current experience by incorporating AI into the product
Provide leadership and mentor more junior engineers
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
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in product engineering with 2 years as a TL/M
BA/BS in computer science, or related degree
Experience of building and shipping scalable features across frontend and backend
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 on a consumer grade web app frontend, preferably React based
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, Java and TypeScript
Benefits
Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage
Generous time-off policy
Opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan
Home office improvement stipend
Annual education and wellness stipends
Healthy lunches daily
Company
Glean
Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers to improve workplace efficiency.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2024 (17)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$768.2MKey Investors
Wellington ManagementSequoia CapitalGeneral Catalyst
2025-06-10Series F· $150M
2024-09-10Series E· $260M
2024-02-27Series D· $203.2M
Leadership Team
Arvind Jain
Founder and CEO
Michael Miao
VP of Finance & BizOps
Recent News
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