Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Software Engineer, Product Backend role sits squarely in the part of SaaS where product capabilities are translated into reliable platform behavior. The remit spans greenfield feature work and API design, which are core building blocks for subscription software that must evolve continuously without sacrificing stability. The emphasis on REST interfaces and scalable server-side implementations signals a product-led environment where backend decisions shape user experience and iteration speed.
For a SaaS career path, the role offers sustained exposure to the full lifecycle that matters in modern product organizations: taking a feature from inception through experimentation, launch, and ongoing improvement. Working closely with product, design, and data partners builds the cross-functional fluency that backend engineers need in SaaS, where instrumentation, feedback loops, and maintainability influence roadmap execution. The mix of distributed CRUD patterns, SQL and NoSQL, and service architecture experience is broadly portable across SaaS categories.
This position suits engineers who prefer end-to-end ownership and are comfortable balancing engineering constraints with evolving product requirements. It aligns well with someone who values readable, testable code, enjoys designing APIs that enable flexible clients, and is motivated by collaborative problem solving rather than narrowly scoped ticket execution.
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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