Fast Facts

Grammarly is seeking an Engineering Manager for the Coda Core Experience team to lead engineering efforts, focusing on enhancing user interactions and launching a new application builder.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include leading the doc surface team, developing a new application builder, managing a growing engineering team, and ensuring effective project execution.

Skills: Candidates should have 8+ years of software development experience, fluency in modern web tech (TypeScript/JavaScript, React), and strong leadership capabilities.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include experience in fast-growing teams, familiarity with performance optimization, and a commitment to inclusive culture.

Location: This position offers a hybrid work model based in San Francisco.

Compensation: $242000 - $360000 / Annually

Grammarly offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.

About Grammarly

Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 40 million people and 50,000 organizations. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly helps people at 96% of theFortune 500 and teams at companies like Atlassian, Databricks, and Zoom get their point across—and get results—with best-in-class security practices that keep data private and protected. Founded in 2009, Grammarly is No. 14 on the Forbes Cloud 100, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI, and one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces.

The Opportunity

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Coda Core Experience team. Coda at Grammarly is on a mission to make docs and app-building radically simpler for everyone, from solo creators to the world’s largest enterprises. As Engineering Manager for the Core Experience team, you will join EPD leadership team responsible for:

• Owning the product surface that millions see first. You’ll lead the team responsible for the doc surface, building blocks, and end user interactions that define how people create, share, and extend Coda.
• Launching our next-generation application builder. You will spearhead the creation of a brand-new surface that empowers users to craft full-fledged apps, bringing powerful workflows to life without writing code.
• Driving full-stack craftsmanship. From rich, reactive front-end UI to performant application logic, you’ll champion engineering designs that delight users while scaling gracefully.
• Scaling a high-performing team. You’ll grow the group from 5 to ~12 engineers, raise the hiring bar, and develop rising stars while addressing performance gaps quickly and compassionately.
• Shipping fast, learning faster. Partnering with Product, Design, and Data Science, you’ll turn vision into clear scopes, keep execution unblocked, and iterate in tight feedback loops.
• Shaping the future of Coda. Your work will unlock new consumer and managed-funnel use cases, influence platform direction, and set patterns adopted across the company.

If you thrive on blending hands-on technical depth with coaching and product thinking—and want your decisions to impact millions of creators—this role is for you.

Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.

Qualifications

• Technical Excellence
• 8+ years of software development experience, including 2+ years of leading engineers.
• Fluency in modern web tech (TypeScript/JavaScript, React or similar) plus solid grasp of back-end application design. Ability to review PRs, dive into code, and prototype when needed.
• Track record of guiding architecture decisions for complex, user-facing products.
• Execution Rigor
• Proven ability to turn ambiguous product ideas into shipped features on aggressive timelines.
• Strong project-management and estimation skills; you can spot risk early and keep schedules realistic without sacrificing quality.
• Talent Leadership
• Experience hiring, onboarding, and performance-managing engineers in fast-growing teams.
• Commitment to fostering an inclusive, high-accountability culture where top performers thrive.
• Product Instincts
• Demonstrated partnership with PM/Design to craft lovable experiences; you ask “why” as often as “how.”
• Data-informed mindset—comfortable setting success metrics and interpreting results.
• Nice-to-Haves
• Experience optimizing large-scale front-end performance.
• Familiarity with AI-powered user experiences.
• Exposure to no-code/low-code or collaborative document products.
• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is inspired by our MOVE principles: move fast and learn faster; obsess about creating customer value; value impact over activity; and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.

Compensation and Benefits

Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more: 

• Excellent health care (including a wide range of 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, and flexible sick time
• Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
• Annual professional development budget and opportunities

Grammarly takes a market-based approach to compensation, which means base pay may vary depending on your location. Our US locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations. [If there’s also a hiring strategy in Canada] In Canada, all locations where we support employment are considered “Zone 1”. 

Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined below by compensation zone and may be modified in the future.

United States:

Zone 1: $242,000 - $360,000/year (USD)

We encourage you to apply

At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Grammarly is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).

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