Mobile Software Engineering Co-Op, Alignable
Enrolled Students Only
Salary not provided
React
AWS
TypeScript
React Native
Python
Redis
Postgres
Ruby
Kotlin
Elixir
Swift
Pandas
Phoenix
Jest
Snowflake
Rspec
Kinesis
JIRA
Git
Rails
DynamoDB
Remote in US
More information about location
Social network for small business owners
Open for applications
Social network for small business owners
21-100 employees
B2CB2BMarketplaceMarketingNetworkingSocial MediaCommunity
Open for applications
Salary not provided
React
AWS
TypeScript
React Native
Python
Redis
Postgres
Ruby
Kotlin
Elixir
Swift
Pandas
Phoenix
Jest
Snowflake
Rspec
Kinesis
JIRA
Git
Rails
DynamoDB
Remote in US
More information about location
21-100 employees
B2CB2BMarketplaceMarketingNetworkingSocial MediaCommunity
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
- To be eligible for this position, you must currently be enrolled as a student at a nationally recognized college or university and live in the U.S. and set to graduate in either Winter 2025 or Spring 2026
- 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
- We’re not just looking for someone who can code; we’re looking for a team player who enjoys engaging in design discussions, advocating for data-driven decisions, and bringing fresh ideas to the table
- 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 Winter 2025 or Spring 2026
- You have at least one prior software engineering co-op or internship experience working with mobile apps
- You have experience with Kotlin, Swift or React Native
- 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 Spring 2025 Co-op Program runs January 2025 - July 2025, with the possibility of extending through August 2025
- At Alignable, you won’t just be building features—you’ll be shaping the tools and experiences that directly impact a vast community of entrepreneurs
- With over 9 million small businesses relying on our platform, the work you do here will have significant visibility and influence, making a tangible difference in the success of countless small businesses
- At Alignable, our Engineering department is organized into dynamic Feature Teams, where Product Managers, UX Designers, and Engineers come together to own and shape entire product areas. These cross-functional teams aren’t just about collaboration; they’re about empowerment
- You’ll be involved in every stage of the product lifecycle, from brainstorming innovative ideas to deploying features that make a real impact. As a Co-op Software Engineer, you’ll dive deep into crafting exceptional user experiences, working side by side with your team to bring creative solutions to life
- This is your chance to make a tangible difference in the lives of small business owners everywhere
- At Alignable, you won’t be coding in isolation—you’ll be actively contributing to our dynamic, collaborative environment
- On your first day, you’re going to get to meet your manager, a few other members of our leadership team, and your engineering team
- You’ll be assigned an awesome engineering buddy who’s going to show you the ropes and be the first to peer review your code. You’ll get your MacBook Pro set up and then you’ll start your learning journey with a 3 week long boot camp
- On the very first day of the bootcamp, you’ll get to know the release process with your first JIRA ticket - a production bug chosen specifically to help familiarize you with the codebase. You’ll talk over potential solutions with your buddy, pick one, and start cranking
- After several minutes / hours, you’ll 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. You’ll progress through bootcamp with tickets that will familiarize you with each part of the tech stack - from React to backend, data and analytics, but primarily focusing on our web applications
- Once you graduate from our boot camp, you’ll join the mobile app engineering team working on progressively larger features with more responsibility. Several months into your co-op, the features you’ll be designing and implementing will make you indistinguishable from a full-time junior engineer
- By the end of your co-op, you will be prepared and confident working in any environment as a mobile software engineer. You’ll miss the team when you go back to school, but you’ve built lifelong friends, and can’t wait to rave about how awesome your projects and team were and how you spent your time helping Small Businesses thrive
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.
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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