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Grammarly · 2 months ago

Software Engineer, Frontend (Superhuman Mail)

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$124K/yr - $145K/yr

8+ years exp

Grammarly is seeking a Senior Frontend Software Engineer to support Superhuman's product development. The role involves designing and maintaining the desktop application, optimizing performance, and mentoring other engineers while ensuring high code quality and scalability.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain our desktop application while keeping resource usage (CPU, memory, threads) minimal and predictable

Monitor, profile, and analyze runtime performance (rendering, memory leaks, blocking operations) and implement optimizations to avoid regressions

Advocate and evolve the frontend architecture (modularity, dependency boundaries, layering, decoupling) to ensure scalability as features grow

Define, enforce, and evangelize best practices in code quality (linting, style guides, code reviews, static analysis, automated checks)

Develop robust error-handling, crash-reporting, fallback mechanisms, and recovery paths for critical failures inside the UI

Work cross-functionally with backend, QA, and infrastructure teams to define interfaces, API contracts, versioning, and compatibility across releases

Instrument and maintain tooling (metrics, logging, telemetry) to gain visibility into app health, user flows, and regressions

Mentor other frontend engineers on performance, reliability, and architecture decisions; drive continuous improvements in the app’s frontend codebase

Qualification

ReactTypescriptElectronGoogle CloudJavaScriptAsynchronous CommunicationBias to ActionStart-to-Finish OwnershipGrowth Mindset

Required

8+ years of professional Frontend web development experience, working from the database to the UI

A deep understanding of browser JavaScript (including the DOM and platform APIs)

Belief that AI will revolutionize how we work as well as the experiences that we create for our customers

Ability to produce work that is striking, worthy of attention, and a contribution to the state of the art

Effective communication across various mediums (especially Slack, Notion, and email) and ability to produce and consume detailed written materials as needed without sacrificing speed

Acts with 100% responsibility for their own outcomes as well as the outcomes of the project

Takes rapid and decisive steps forward, even in the face of uncertainty, recognizing action is the catalyst for progress and growth

Embraces challenges, welcomes feedback, and believes they and others can always grow