Senior Software Engineer, User Interviews

• Anywhere from 4-7 years of industry experience as a full stack engineer
• At least 1 year of experience with Ruby is required (it’s fine if you’re newer to Ruby, but you should have a depth of experience with other backend / server-side frameworks)
• At least 1 year of experience working on a large, complex webapp in production with React
• Experience designing and leading large technical projects for engineering teams to work on
• Candidates must be located in the United States and authorized to work without any Visa sponsorship

Desirable

• You'll be joining a team that cares deeply about talking to our users, creating great experiences for them, and incorporating their feedback into everything we do
• Plus, it is a chance to build a product used by your peers at world class companies
• There is a fun-meta-geekiness to the whole thing that never gets old
• We work in a pod structure which includes a tech lead, PM, designer, and 4 engineers
• The pod works together to determine what is going to be built next, how it is going to be built, and what we need to do to execute
• As an effort is underway, we rely on constant communication to ensure we're always building the best possible solution and expect our engineers to take part in that process
• As a senior engineer on the team, you’ll be leading or playing a key contributing role to planning and delivery of projects
• This is a fullstack role (all our engineers are generalist full stack) but with an emphasis on backend - your expertise in backend engineering, databases, data model and API design will help shape the technical strategy of the team
• But at the end of the day, our engineers do what it takes to ship product, and that occasionally involves moderate or even complex frontend work
• While our senior engineers primarily drive the technical planning and delivery (including testing, QA and release), there’s opportunity to be involved in the full product life cycle and to work cross functionally with our PMs, PDs, data scientists and UXR
• Engineers get involved in helping define user requirements, offering feedback on designs, and looking at user research studies
• As a senior engineer, you’ll often co-create and shape the scope (both product and technical) for the projects we take on with your product counterparts
• You’ll also get involved in improving our engineering and product organization more broadly: by contributing to our technical guilds (where React and Rails best practices are discussed), picking up areas of expertise where you become a subject matter expert (e.g. owning our db migration best practices), helping improve team processes, or by mentoring and leveling up other engineers
• We’re a team of doers. You’ll be fully supported by your manager and team, but there won’t be anyone peering over your shoulder. You’ll be expected and trusted to take ownership of your work, and to communicate clearly and transparently with your distributed teammates