Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Within the SaaS ecosystem, a product-backend software engineering role like this sits at the point where product intent becomes durable platform capability. The emphasis on owning “greenfield” user-facing features end-to-end—design collaboration, implementation, experimentation, and launch—signals work that is closely tied to how SaaS products evolve through iteration rather than one-off releases. The focus on REST APIs and scalable server-side systems maps directly to common SaaS needs: stable interfaces, rapid product change, and reliability as usage grows.
From a career standpoint, this kind of scope builds the operating muscle that transfers well across SaaS companies: translating ambiguous product problems into maintainable services, designing APIs that enable multiple clients, and balancing speed with long-term system health. Exposure to experimentation and post-launch iteration also develops a practical understanding of how SaaS teams validate impact and manage continuous delivery.
This role tends to suit engineers who prefer cross-functional product work over purely infrastructure-focused tracks, and who like taking responsibility for outcomes beyond code completion. It also fits someone motivated by clear interfaces, pragmatic architecture, and incremental improvement, whether stepping into a stronger ownership role or deepening backend fundamentals in a product-led environment.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the Role:
Glean is looking for creative engineers to own and launch delightful user facing features. In a rapidly growing startup, this entails developing ideas with product managers and designers to best balance engineering constraints with requirements.
You will:
- Oversee the entirety of your greenfield features from inception to implementation, experimentation, launch and beyond
- 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
- Mentor more junior engineers or learn from battle tested ones
About you:
- BA/BS in computer science, or related degree
- Experience of building and shipping scalable features in the backend
Key knowledge and skills
- 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 in building scalable & maintainable backend systems
- 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 and Java
Compensation & Benefits:
The standard base salary range for this position is $140,000 - $265,000 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation, Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage, generous time-off policy, and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals. When you join, you'll receive a home office improvement stipend, as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events, and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.
We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. We're committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.
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