Software Engineering Co-Op, Alignable
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Social network for small business owners
Open for applications
Social network for small business owners
21-100 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
Alignable's mission is to bring together small business owners from across the globe to help them gain competitive advantage so they can succeed in their business.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for results-oriented, self-motivated, and curious software engineers who not only enjoy their craft and are passionate about building products at scale, but also want to see their work help small businesses be successful
- You are currently enrolled as a student at a nationally recognized college or university and live in the U.S. and are set to graduate in Spring 2025
- You have at least one prior software engineering co-op or internship experience
- You have experience with or a willingness to learn Ruby/Javascript
- You want to be treated like a regular team member, not as an intern
- You like the constructive feedback provided by code reviews
- You enjoy the security provided by a comprehensive test suite
- You appreciate the delicate balance between writing “good” code and shipping
- You understand the performance implications of different algorithms and data-structures
- You grok Git and can explain: “Git gets easier once you understand branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space”
What the job involves
- Alignable’s Engineering department supports all Product teams, building velocity and quality into our core products
- The department is divided into 3 main product pillars/squads: Networking, Groups, and Revenue
- You will join one of these squads depending on interest and fit
- As a CO-OP Software Engineer, you will be working closely with product management, design, and engineering to craft great experiences for our users
- You’ll be contributing to our main application throughout the stack from Javascript to Ruby/Rails 2.7.6 all the way down to x86 assembly (just kidding on that last one)
- We use Postgres, Redis, Dynamo, Redshift, and Memcached for storage and we deploy code with AWS
- We’re looking for someone who wants to work at a startup and be an integral part of our dev team
- We won’t just leave you in a corner to code all day; you’ll be participating in design discussions and arguing (with data!) why we should or shouldn’t implement a feature
- You'll have an introduction with your manager and meet your team and your engineering buddy
- We’ll give you your new Macbook Pro and help you configure your dev environment
- In your first few hours, you’ll have your dev environment set up with your favorite editor (which is VIM, naturally) and our CTO and his awesome beard will give you an overview of the product
- Around 12pm EST, we’ll break for lunch
- After lunch, you’ll get started on your first JIRA ticket - a production bug chosen specifically to help familiarize you with the codebase
- You put on your headphones and start cranking
- After several minutes / hours, you have a solution
- Your solution includes a unit test that replicates the bug
- You push your branch to Github and create a pull request
- Within a few minutes, our continuous integration software runs the test suite against your code and one of your insanely awesome fellow engineers will code review your solution
- Once your code is reviewed with no outstanding issues and all tests pass, you can merge to master and push your code to production
- As your CO-OP progresses, you’ll be tasked with larger features with more responsibility
- Several months into your CO-OP, the features you’ll be implementing will make you indistinguishable from a full-time junior engineer
Our take
Building and maintaining a small business is no easy task, especially in more turbulent macroeconomic conditions. As many small businesses face an uncertain future, Alignable supplies a solution for owners to build stronger relationships with other SMBs, and support each other's endeavours.
Put simply, Alignable is a social network for small business owners. It boasts 8 million users, making it the largest SMB referral network in the world, and creates value by enabling users to generate and share leads, build relationships and offer advice to one another.
Lately, it seems Alignable has been focussed on expansion, making efforts to scale its workforce and grow its outreach and user base. With such a unique offering, the company has a clear opportunity for impact as well as the chance to consolidate its market lead.
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Company benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental, vision, mental health & life insurance
- Opt-in short & long-term disability solutions
- Unlimited time off
- Minimum 2 weeks (back to back) PTO taken each year
- Paid parental leave for birthing & non-birthing parents
- Flexible working
- 401k program
- Professional development compensation
- Remote company
- Access to remote office spaces, e.g. WeWork
- Work from home stipend
Company values
- 🚴♀️ Enjoy The Journey: We are passionate about our mission to help small businesses and make an impact. But we don't take ourselves too seriously. We understand the power of building relationships and we know our enthusiasm is contagious. We celebrate our customers, our team, and key moments in our journey
- 👥 Be Different Together: We know that our differences in experiences, viewpoints, and identities make us better. We create a space where everyone feels comfortable showing up as their truest selves. We seek diverse perspectives and work to disconfirm our beliefs
- 💪 Be Stronger Together: We combine our strengths and work together on shared goals and build trusted relationships with our teams and customers. We learn from each other to create better outcomes. We treat everyone as a partner and are good partners ourselves - no egos welcome
- 🤔 Exercise Excellent Judgement: We turn knowledge into understanding based on equal parts data and intuition. We think strategically, make decisions collaboratively and know where to focus our efforts - for today and tomorrow
- 😀 Profound Bias For Action: Speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk taking while avoiding one way doors
- 😁 Act Like An Owner: Everyone at Alignable acts like an owner because they are. We proactively act on behalf of the entire company and our customers not just for ourselves or team. There’s no passing the buck and we never say, “that’s not my job"
- ⛹️♂️ Change The Game: We start with first principles, assume nothing is impossible, and go after 10x outcomes relentlessly like an underdog. We create and communicate a bold direction that paves the road and inspires results. We're always looking around corners for ways to better serve our customers
- ♾ Adapt & Evolve: We accept that we won’t be right every time and learn from what doesn’t work as well as what does. We evolve as we go and seek out honest feedback along the way. We create an environment where people feel safe to admit failure and lean into learning
- 👩🍳 Be Customer Obsessed: We believe successful small business owners strengthen relationships, foster belonging, and improve the quality of life for everyone. We're obsessed with helping small businesses thrive. We work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust when deciding what to work on and how to do it
Company HQ
Bulfinch Triangle Historic District, Boston, MA
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Leadership
Eric Groves
(CEO)Has served on the Board of Directors at a number of companies such as More Than Words and BigCommerce. Was an SVP at Constant Contact for over a decade.
Venkat Krishnamurthy
(President)Board Member at Grand Circle Corporation and Cementos Pacasmayo. Was Founder and CTO of Paraform, which was acquired by Nikon, and also CTO at Checkpoint Systems.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Alignable
- Equity, Diversity & Inclusion: At Alignable, we celebrate the diversity of the small business community - and in our team. We value the unique perspective you’ll bring to strengthen our mission of helping small businesses thrive and are committed to maintaining an inclusive and respectful culture that fosters creativity and innovation from everyone.
- Advocacy & Encouragement: They make our online communities great, but they also make Alignable a great place to work. Our culture is dynamic, supportive and offers tremendous opportunities to grow your career together with the business. We offer autonomy, ownership, mentoring and flexibility. Every one of our employees and co-ops can directly point to how they've made a major impact on the business.
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