Fast Facts

Grammarly is seeking a Front-End Software Engineer to join their dynamic hybrid team, responsible for developing user-focused interfaces with a focus on innovation and collaboration across various functional teams.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include shipping production-grade code, maintaining technical excellence, contributing to the company's technical culture, and collaborating with numerous internal teams to create impactful applications.

Skills: Required skills include expertise in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and modern JS frameworks like React, with a strong understanding of web security and responsive design principles.

Qualifications: Candidates should have 5+ years of experience in web programming and a proven track record of delivering high-quality user interfaces.

Location: This is a hybrid position based in San Francisco, allowing for both remote work and in-person collaboration.

Compensation: $175000 - $250000 / Annually

Grammarly offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.

About Grammarly

Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 40 million people and 50,000 organizations. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly helps people at 96% of the Fortune 500 and teams at companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom get their point across—and get results—with best-in-class security practices that keep data private and protected. Founded in 2009, Grammarly is No. 14 on the Forbes Cloud 100, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI, and one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces.

The Opportunity

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for Front-End Software Engineers to join our Engineering teams. Front-End engineers will ship user-focused interfaces and work closely with Product and Design teams while collaborating with many other functional teams across the Engineering organization.

Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.

Grammarly is growing rapidly. There are opportunities to join a team, learn from experienced peers, and build product offerings and teams from the ground up. Within our growing engineering organization, there is plenty of room for ownership and direct impact on users.

As a Front-End Software Engineer at Grammarly, you will:

• Ship production-grade code to over 40 million daily active users.
• Grow and maintain the team’s technical excellence by harnessing best practices for the team and product.
• Contribute to the technical culture of the company.
• Harness engagement metrics to identify and build new impactful features.
• Work on fun and technically challenging projects to deliver impactful apps on popular browsers.
• Use React and TypeScript while building super refined and elegant user interfaces.
• Collaborate widely with internal teams such as Core, Growth, Enterprise, Trust, and Data to deliver delightful product offerings to our customers.
• Make a meaningful impact on the lives of writers everywhere!

Qualifications

• 5+ Years of experience.
• Web programming: Expert knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Security: Understanding common vulnerabilities in web apps and how to avoid/eliminate them.
• Defining/using APIs: Can work with back-end engineers to define and consume APIs to build new interfaces.
• Results orientation: Getting things done.
• Modern JS frameworks: Experience building apps using React, Angular, Vue, Svelte, etc.
• Translating design to pixel-perfect UI: Understands the constraints of responsive design across various screen sizes or input methods.
• 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.

Bonus points for:

• TypeScript
• RxJS
• Functional programming

Compensation and Benefits

Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more: 

• Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
• Disability and life insurance options
• 401(k) and RRSP matching 
• Paid parental leave
• 20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time
• Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
• Annual professional development budget and opportunities

Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations.

Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future

Zone 1: $175,000 – $250,000/year (USD)

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).

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