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Glean · 2 weeks ago

Lead Software Engineer, Product Backend

San Francisco Bay Area

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$140K/yr - $265K/yr

5+ years exp

Glean is a Work AI platform that helps organizations work smarter with AI. The Lead Software Engineer will oversee the development of user-facing features, incorporating AI into the product while providing leadership and mentoring to junior engineers.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Enterprise SoftwareAgentic AIGenerative AIMachine LearningProductivity ToolsSearch Engine

Work & Life Balance

H1B Sponsor Likely

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

Product engineeringFrontend developmentBackend developmentReactREST APIsOpenAPIDistributed CRUD functionalitySQLNoSQLGolangJavaTypeScriptUser-centric mentalityEmpathy

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

Dental coverage

Generous time-off policy

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.

Founded in 2019

Palo Alto, California, USA

501-1000 employees

https://www.glean.com

H1B Sponsorship

Glean has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship

90%

Represents job field similar to this job

Engineering and Development

Product Management

Accounting and Finance

Customer Service and Support

Management and Executive

Trends of Total Sponsorships

*2026 (6)

2025 (22)

2024 (17)

2023 (7)

2022 (26)

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Total Funding

$768.2M

Key Investors

Wellington ManagementAltimeter,DST GlobalKleiner Perkins,Lightspeed Venture Partners

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

Business Wire

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2026-05-12

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2026-05-07

PR Newswire

SaaS' next $100 billion opportunity could come from agentic AI - Bain & Co research

2026-05-07

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