Senior Manager of Engineering, Ritual
$138-196k
+ Equity participation in the form of stock options
Direct-to-consumer health supplement company
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Direct-to-consumer health supplement company
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$138-196k
+ Equity participation in the form of stock options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To improve people's health and empower them to live their best lives by focusing on transparency and scientific evidence.
Role
Who you are
- A Leader: You have experience managing, coaching, and mentoring engineers to achieve collective success
- Passionate: You’re driven to build solutions that are impactful for customers and scalable for the business
- Well-Rounded: You bring experience with back-end microservices, front-end systems, API design, caching solutions, webhooks, and more
- Detail Oriented: You care deeply about delivering quality work and seek opportunities for iteration and improvement
- Problem Solver: You prioritize simple, effective solutions and rely on tools and testing to support your decisions
- Analytical: You use data to inform decisions and guide strategies
- Cross-functional Communicator: You’re comfortable diving into technical details with your team and translating them for non-technical stakeholders
- Education: A degree in Computer Science or a related field is preferred, but equivalent experience is equally valued
- Experience: 5+ years developing scalable web applications in a fast-paced environment with 2-3+ years in a senior or leadership role
- Technical Skills: Strong proficiency in Ruby/Rails, with a track record of building scalable solutions
- Experience with Stripe APIs and Sidekiq is a plus
- A solid understanding of system design, testing, documentation, and monitoring
- Preferred: Familiarity with troubleshooting at scale and guiding technology decisions as the company grows
What the job involves
- Reports to: SVP, Technology
- We're looking for a Senior Manager, Engineering to guide a talented team in building scalable solutions that drive business growth and create exceptional digital experiences for our customers
- As a key leader on our team, you'll collaborate with designers, product managers, and data analysts to continuously enhance our online experiences
- Lead the design, architecture, and execution of technical projects, working closely with Engineering, Product, and Data leadership
- Your leadership will shape our technical strategies and ensure scalable, high-quality solutions
- Document strategies, technical implementations, dependencies, and priorities to support team initiatives
- Establish engineering processes, define company standards, identify core technologies, and address technical challenges
- Build scalable solutions, leveraging conventions and prioritizing simplicity where it makes sense
- Our site uses React, Gatsby, GraphQL, Ember.js, and Contentful
- Our back-end is a Rails API that handles everything from account creation and payments, all the way through to fulfillment
Our take
Ritual sells health supplements tailored for women direct-to-consumer, with a strong focus on ingredient ethicality, traceability and transparency. Its products include multivitamins, plant based protein and Omega 3 – as well as a noteworthy prenatal vitamin, which was inspired by founder & CEO Katerina Schneider’s fruitless search for a similar product while pregnant.
The brand takes a strong position, labeling itself a team of skeptics who don’t subscribe to pseudoscience. Instead, the company conducts deep scientific research, whilst demanding more transparency in supplement ingredients – in fact, even its product capsules are clear colored. It’s a standout stance to take, going against the often over-positive wellness messages crafted by similar companies.
The health supplement industry is a crowded space in the US. Legacy providers dominate the market while conscious startups like Ritual try to appeal to equally conscious consumers. Ritual’s future success will depend largely on increasing its already strong brand awareness, as indicated by a huge social media following, and further product launches, an approach it’s admittedly well-funded for.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Feb 2019
$25m
SERIES B
Aug 2017
$10.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $40.5m
Company benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Healthcare & Dependent Care FSA
- Equity participation
- 401k Match - Up to 4%
- Pet Insurance
- Free Ritual Forever
- Unlimited PTO - 10 days minimum to keep you fresh
- 18 paid holidays
- Bi-Annual Performance Reviews
- “Ritual First Fridays” - Entire company takes off the first Friday of each month while we are working remotely
- 5 months paid maternity/paternity leave and we cover health insurance during any additional time taken under-protected baby bonding time off
- Flex time for returning to work birth-parents
- Childcare stipend (monthly expense)
- Work from Home stipend
- Maven Clinic, a family planning platform for all Ritual and employees and dependents
- Periodic group workouts with trainers on Zoom
- Wellness stipend
Company values
- Get gritty - We roll up our sleeves and get stuff done—period
- Embrace the no's - When someone says no, it just means it hasn't been done before
- Don't be a jerk - We treat our customers and coworkers with respect, kindness, and empathy, always.
- Be obsessed - Details, details, details
- Make an impact - Our work is integrated with our life's mission to have a greater impact on the world
Company HQ
Hayden Tract, Culver City, CA
Articles
Leadership
Katerina Schneider
(CEO)Having studied at Brown University, they worked for Lehman Brothers until 2008, when they joined Fox Interactive Media for 2 years. They spent a combined 4 years at Universal Music Group and Atom Factory before founding Ritual in June 2015.
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