Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This backend product engineering role stands out in SaaS because it sits close to the surface area where subscription products win or lose: reliable user-facing capabilities backed by stable APIs. The remit spans greenfield feature work through experimentation and launch, a pattern common in product-led SaaS where teams iterate quickly based on real usage signals. The emphasis on REST API design and scalable server-side implementations reflects the operational demands of multi-tenant, always-on software.
For a long-term SaaS career, the role offers repeated practice in the full feature lifecycle, from early problem framing with product and design to post-launch refinement. That builds a foundation in the mechanics of shipping, observing, and improving product functionality, which transfers well across SaaS companies regardless of domain. Exposure to maintainability, testing, and scalability concerns also maps directly to the expectations placed on engineers as SaaS platforms mature.
It is best suited to engineers who like owning outcomes rather than just tickets, and who enjoy collaborating across disciplines to balance constraints with product intent. The environment favors people who can switch between pragmatic delivery and thoughtful system design, and who are comfortable learning from peers while also supporting more junior engineers when needed.
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:
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 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.
