Senior Software Engineer, Kit (Formerly ConvertKit)
Reporting
$181k
+ Equity
More information about location
Email-first operating system for creators
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Email-first operating system for creators
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$181k
+ Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help creators grow and earn a living.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for an engineer who has deep expertise in working with full stack with design and visualization libraries for large datasets, enjoys solving technical challenges at scale, and has a strong desire to share their expertise and knowledge with others
- Extensive experience with Ruby on Rails
- Experience with React for building high-performance user interfaces
- Experience working with Design Systems
- Previous experience writing code that is accessible, scalable, maintainable, and performant
- Strong code reading comprehension skills
- Ability to articulate and synthesize problems across written, visual, and auditory formats to effectively communicate and bring clarity to frontend development challenges
- Ability to query data and create clear, actionable data visualizations from initial analysis to final presentation
- Ability to deliver feedback with empathy and come up with solutions
- Be autonomous and self-motivated to work effectively in a 100% remote company
- Have enthusiasm for and belief in our mission, vision, and values
- Attend our bi-annual company retreats
- At least a 4 hour overlap with teammates based in the east coast
Desirable
- Experience working with OLAP
- Experience with D3
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a talented full stack engineer to help elevate and expand our reporting functionality, delivering powerful insights to our users
- You’ll join a collaborative team of engineers responsible for providing in-app business analytics to our creators, building a scalable full-stack framework to power actionable insights used by multiple engineering teams
- You’ll be working closely with design, product, and engineering to ensure the application’s event data is stored, presented, and visualized effectively and performantly, empowering creators to make informed decisions about their business growth
- Own solving problems across the full stack in collaboration with your team
- Actively participate in driving the technical direction of our codebase
- Collaborate with team members across the organization
- Proactive communication with product stakeholders
- Staying up to date with current technical best practices
Application process
- We read every single application, and your responses to our application questions help put your experience into context. We’ll keep you informed through every step
- We know that most people hate interviewing (we relate!)
- We aim to make it as good of an experience as we can, and part of that includes keeping you informed during the process
- 30 min - Recruiter screen
- 45 min - Hiring manager screen
- Work Sample
- 60 min - Technical interview
- 60 min - Culture contribution chat
- 30 min - Hiring manager wrap-up
Our take
Kit, formerly ConvertiKit was founded in 2013 to help online creators and bloggers make money through email marketing. The company has amassed more than 550,000 creators that reach 590+ million fans.
Following a boost to email marketing engagement rates, Kit’s strong existing network put it in a good position to take advantage of it. Add to that the increasing shift towards eCommerce, and the company’s offering is increasingly looking like a smart solution for content creators looking to monetize.
Kit’s acquisition of musician marketing platform FanBridge sees the platform scooping up musicians looking to explore alternative revenue streams online following the pandemic throttling of tours and live gigs. With plans to add Spotify and BandsInTown integrations, as well as ‘tip jars’, this is an interesting direction to see the email marketing company expand into.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Vacation time: 4 weeks of paid vacation plus 10 paid holidays a year
- Health: Excellent health, vision, and dental benefits. 2 weeks of paid sick leave per year, including mental health days
- Profit sharing bonus: We celebrate our hard work and success with twice yearly profit sharing distributions
- Parental leave: 12 weeks paid leave for all caregivers, plus flexible scheduling in your child's first year
- Supportive leave: We're here to support you when life takes a turn. You'll have up to 6 weeks (each) of paid bereavement leave, medical leave and natural disaster leave
- 401K: 401k match of up to 5% of your salary to help you save for the future
- Vacation bonus: We'll help pay for your trip with a $1,000 yearly "paid paid vacation" bonus
- Learning budget: Use your annual Learning & Development budget to buy books and courses to keep your skills sharp
- Yearly conference: We'll pay for your registration and travel expenses to the conference of your choice each year
- Team retreats: The team gathers twice a year in-person for fantastic team retreats where we strategize, connect and bond
- Equipment: $4,000 equipment allowance upon joining the team and then $3,000 every two years after that
Company values
- Teach everything you know – We teach everything we know for the benefit of creators and the broader tech industry. We encourage our community to do the same
- Create every day – Our best days are the ones when we create. Every person on the team is a creator and can roll up their sleeves to help build a better product and company. We believe consistent progress every day leads to incredible results
- Work in public – We share everything from our soaring successes to our epic failures because it helps us learn together. Besides, if we aren’t willing to sign our names to our work and put it into the world, we’ll never truly reach our potential
- Default to generosity – We make an impact by generously serving others. We’re a team of people who care deeply about one another, the creator community, and the wider world around us
- Creator success is our success – Every project we choose, every feature we build, every story we tell — they should all tie back to helping creators succeed. When creators grow their audiences, earn a living, and support their families, we all win
- Do it with excellence – When we choose to do something, we set the bar high. We iterate our way to excellence. When we can’t, we say no. When we say yes, we go all in to reach our potential. We have fun while doing the best work of our lives
Company HQ
Downtown, Boise, ID
Leadership
Nathan Barry
(Founder & CEO)Studied Marketing and Graphic Design at Boise State University and worked as a freelance software designer. Worked as Senior UX Designer at Unity Media Group. Also founded iOS and web applications design company Legend.
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