Software Engineer, Kickstarter

• You have professional experience building applications or services with either/both of Ruby on Rails and/or building web applications with Typescript & React
• You have professional experience across full-stack web applications (or, if you focus on either frontend or backend, are willing to learn the rest of the stack)
• You enjoy working collaboratively, participating in team discussions, planning and software design
• You have excellent communication and time management skills
• You have experience working iteratively and maintaining live products
• You have a pragmatic approach to writing well-tested, maintainable code
• You love writing tests to ensure you deliver high-quality software and experiences
• You consider the broader impacts of your work through; building accessible UI, quality & testing patterns, code readability, documentation and considering security, performance and data integrity concerns
• You value sharing knowledge, personal growth, positive feedback, and continuously improving engineering and team practices
• You empathize with creators, the challenges of the creative process and bringing projects to life

Desirable

• Work closely and collaboratively within a cross functional team of product managers, designers, engineers, as well as other stakeholders
• Iteratively research, experiment, and develop products and features to solve real problems for Kickstarter creators and backers
• Contribute to continuous learning and improvement of our team and organizational work, systems, technology and processes
• Share knowledge with other team members and across the engineering organization