Software Engineer

Location: Menlo Park, CA (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Compensation: Competitive salary + equity

About Glade.ai

Glade.ai is building the future of AI-powered automation for service businesses — transforming how legal, insurance, and professional service industries scale and operate. Our platform automates workflows, optimizes processes, and helps businesses deliver more value, faster.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a talented Software Engineer with at least 3+ years of professional experience to join our core product engineering team. This is a hands-on, full-stack engineering role where you’ll work directly on high-impact features, shaping the core platform that powers Glade’s AI-driven automation.

As part of a fast-growing company, you’ll be building at startup speed, solving complex technical challenges, and positioning yourself for rapid career growth and leadership opportunities as we scale.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and ship scalable, high-performance applications in a modern TypeScript/React/Node.js stack.

• Collaborate closely with product, design, and fellow engineers to deliver impactful features end-to-end.

• Contribute to architecture decisions and help evolve our codebase for speed, reliability, and maintainability.

• Write clean, testable code and champion best engineering practices.

• Learn quickly, iterate quickly, and have a direct impact on product direction.

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer building production-grade web applications.

• Strong skills using TypeScript/React/CSS on the frontend, and experience with modern TypeScript/Node.js/PostgreSQL-based backends.

• Solid understanding of software design, APIs, and scalable system architecture.

• Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.

• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

How to stand out in this interview application process:

Put yourself in our shoes. We get over 300+ applicants / week. We want to spend time with the right candidates. During your interview process you will meet at least 3 other engineers and managers within Glade. So putting your best foot forward by building a project related to Glade—a feature, workflow, prototype, or application that shows Glade solving a real legal workflow—is the fastest way to being the right candidate.

You are the right candidate if you:

• Solve a real or plausible problem for law firms, legal teams, or their clients.

• Demonstrate strong product judgment. We want to understand why you built what you built, the tradeoffs you considered, and how you decided what was worth prioritizing.

• Show thoughtful engineering. We care about architecture, state management, data modeling, edge cases, and how your solution could evolve as part of a production product.

• Present your work professionally. Please host it, share a repository, or provide a deployed link so we can evaluate not only the functionality, but also how you package, communicate, and ship your work.

You are welcome to use AI tools throughout the process—in fact, we expect great engineers to leverage them effectively. However, the final result should not feel like a generic AI-generated demo. It should reflect your taste, judgment, and ability to turn an ambiguous problem into a useful product.

Why Join Us

• High Impact: Your decisions will shape the future of Glade’s platform and product direction.

• Significant Equity: meaningful equity grants that would value your contributions to the glade.ai platform

• Fast-Moving Culture: Work with a small, talented team solving real, high-value problems.

• Mission-Driven: Help redefine how service businesses operate with the power of AI.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary + meaningful equity grants

• High-energy in-person culture with an office built for focus, fitness, and fun — gym, yoga studio, dog park, free EV charging, and regular in-office events included

• 🏥 Comprehensive healthcare

• 🍽 Lunch, snacks, and team outings

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