Software Engineer, Back-End – Mail

🕒 August 12

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $186k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Superhuman

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1001 - 5000 employees

☁️ SaaS

⚡ Productivity

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

SaaS • Productivity • Artificial Intelligence

Superhuman is a productivity software company that offers a suite of tools — Mail, Docs, Go (an AI assistant), Calendars, and Databases — designed to make email and work across apps faster and more efficient. Its flagship product, Superhuman Mail, promotes faster inbox management, timely follow-ups, and saves users time; the platform integrates AI features (including writing assistance via Grammarly and AI agents like Go) and connects to many third-party apps (Gmail, Drive, Jira, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor). Superhuman targets teams and enterprises with collaborative documents, knowledge management, workflows, and proactive AI that schedules meetings and helps across apps. The company markets to teams (marketing, IT, education, enterprises) and emphasizes AI-native collaboration, integrations, and productivity gains.

📋 Description

• Build and operate high-throughput production services powering AI agent orchestration, connector integrations, and real-time data pipelines • Design and build core platform services for scalable systems • Work across the Go, Mail, Docs, and Enterprise product suite as appropriate • Collaborate with ML/AI, Product, and Front-End engineers to ship AI-powered features end to end • Build and evolve infrastructure as code for high availability across consumer and enterprise customers • Contribute to engineering practices emphasizing documentation, testing, and reliability • Mentor and grow junior engineers

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in back-end development • Strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and system design • Experience building, deploying, and debugging production systems at scale • Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms such as GCP or Azure • Fluency with AI coding tools including Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code • Experience with real-time systems, event-driven architectures, or high-throughput API design is a plus • Deep understanding of CI/CD and infrastructure as code • Ability to work independently, manage priorities across multiple projects, and collaborate with cross-functional teams • Strong product instincts and ability to balance speed and reliability

🏖️ Benefits

• Excellent health care, including medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits • Disability and life insurance options • 401(k) and RRSP matching • Paid parental leave • 20 days of paid time off per year • 12 days of paid holidays per year • Two floating holidays per year • Flexible sick time • Caregiving stipend • Pet care stipend • Wellness stipend • Home office stipend • Annual professional development budget • Professional development opportunities • Equity