Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Lead Software Engineer role sits squarely in the part of the SaaS ecosystem where product differentiation is created through end user experience and platform reliability. The remit spans user facing feature delivery and backend API design, a combination that matters in modern SaaS products where adoption, retention, and trust are shaped by both interface quality and service behavior. The explicit focus on incorporating AI into the product also reflects a broader SaaS shift toward embedding intelligent workflows rather than treating AI as a separate layer.
From a career standpoint, the role offers a strong pathway for building durable SaaS product engineering judgment. Owning greenfield features end to end, including experimentation and launch, develops the habits that translate across subscription businesses: instrumenting outcomes, iterating with evidence, and balancing speed with maintainability. Leading architecture decisions around REST APIs and scalable server implementations also builds platform instincts that remain relevant across different SaaS domains and tech stacks.
This position tends to suit engineers who prefer high ownership, cross functional collaboration, and mentoring responsibilities alongside hands on delivery. It aligns with someone at a senior stage who enjoys shaping technical direction while staying close to product decisions, particularly in a hybrid, office anchored working model in the Bay Area.
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, delivering intuitive experiences that run in modern mobile and desktop browsers.
You will:
- 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
About You:
- 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
Location:
- This role is hybrid (3-4 days a week in one of our SF Bay Area offices)
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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