Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This fullstack engineering role sits at a common pressure point in modern SaaS: delivering user-facing product work while also shaping the APIs and backend systems that make those experiences reliable. The emphasis on greenfield features and end-to-end ownership signals a product-led environment where engineers influence what ships, not only how it is implemented, which is particularly relevant in SaaS companies iterating quickly on workflow and UX.
For a long-term SaaS career, the mix of frontend craft and service design builds a portfolio that transfers across many subscription products. Experience designing REST APIs, balancing web client flexibility with server-side stability, and collaborating with product, design, and data partners maps closely to how SaaS teams scale delivery without losing maintainability. Exposure to experimentation and launch cycles also reinforces an outcome-oriented approach that is valued across SaaS engineering ladders.
This role is best suited to an engineer who prefers owning a feature through ambiguity, coordinating across disciplines, and making pragmatic trade-offs. It fits someone who wants to deepen fullstack range, contribute to architecture decisions, and either mentor others or learn in a peer-rich environment, rather than focusing narrowly on a single layer of the stack.
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
- 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 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 days a week in either our San Francisco or Palo Alto office)
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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