Software Engineer, Frontend
Glean
Job Summary
Glean is seeking creative frontend engineers to build beautiful, smooth user-facing features using a modern React and TypeScript codebase. The role involves collaborating with product designers to balance constraints and requirements, delivering best-in-class user interfaces for mobile and desktop browsers, and creating frontend infrastructure to support rapid experimentation and development. You will be responsible for the entire lifecycle of your features, from inception to launch and beyond, writing robust, readable, and maintainable code. The position encourages pushing platform boundaries to integrate an instant Glean experience into every workflow and offers opportunities for mentorship or learning from experienced engineers.
Must Have
- Build user interfaces with React.js
- Collaborate with designers and engineers
- Oversee features from inception to launch
- Write robust, readable, and testable code
- Experience with a polished React.js app or 4+ years with web app
- Comfortable with TypeScript or JavaScript
- Passionate about building pixel-perfect interfaces
Good to Have
- Experience with PWA, Web Extensions, Electron, Capacitor, Redux, Webpack
- Thrive in a customer-focused, cross-functional environment
- Proactive and positive attitude
Perks & Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage
- Generous time-off policy
- 401k plan
- Home office improvement stipend
- Annual education and wellness stipends
- Healthy lunches daily
- Regular company events
Job Description
About Glean:
Founded in 2019, Glean is an innovative AI-powered knowledge management platform designed to help organizations quickly find, organize, and share information across their teams. By integrating seamlessly with tools like Google Drive, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, Glean ensures employees can access the right knowledge at the right time, boosting productivity and collaboration. The company’s cutting-edge AI technology simplifies knowledge discovery, making it faster and more efficient for teams to leverage their collective intelligence.
Glean was born from Founder & CEO Arvind Jain’s deep understanding of the challenges employees face in finding and understanding information at work. Seeing firsthand how fragmented knowledge and sprawling SaaS tools made it difficult to stay productive, he set out to build a better way - an AI-powered enterprise search platform that helps people quickly and intuitively access the information they need. Since then, Glean has evolved into the leading Work AI platform, combining enterprise-grade search, an AI assistant, and powerful application- and agent-building capabilities to fundamentally redefine how employees work.
- Build delightful user interfaces with React.js in collaboration with stellar product designers and backend engineers
- Oversee the entirety of your features from inception to launch and beyond
- Write robust code that’s easy to read, maintain and test
- Push the boundaries of platform constraints to integrate an instant Glean experience into every workflow
- Mentor more junior engineers or learn from battle tested ones
About you:
- BA/BS in computer science, or related degree
- Experience with a highly polished consumer grade React.js app, or 4+ with any web app
- 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
- Passionate about using open web technologies (HTML5/CSS/JS) to build pixel perfect, zero-latency, 60FPS user interfaces that run on all devices
- Comfortable in TypeScript, or JavaScript and type-curious
- Experienced in or desire to master one or more of: Progressive Web Apps (PWA), Web Extensions, Electron, Capacitor, React, Redux, Webpack
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 $115,000 - $260,000 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.