Sr. Ruby on Rails Engineer (Growth)

Our team

figures out the intentions of new users who are starting trials of Aha! products — and provides value as quickly as possible during the trial experience.

We test new experiences : We work with the product and marketing teams to develop experiments meant to improve our users' onboarding experience.

We help each other grow : We each bring unique skills to the table and want our teammates to feel valued from the start. Our exposes new hires to the codebase and lets them contribute right away.

We move quickly : We ship code multiple times a day. We believe in getting valuable features in front of customers and iteratively improving as we learn what works and what does not.

We value product over process : We want the team to have the time and focus on solving complex challenges. We by setting clear goals and avoiding heavyweight processes and excessive meetings.

We share knowledge freely : We share our learnings with each other and with the developer community. Our demonstrates how we tackle interesting challenges at Aha!

We enjoy : We like what we do. And we want you to love your job too. Learn more about , our company , and the generous we offer.

Our technology

Our web application is a single-instance, multi-tenant Ruby on Rails monolith supported by Postgres (database), Redis (background jobs), and memcached (Rails caching). We also run a Node.js webserver to support collaborative editing and real-time updates. Our application is hosted on Amazon Web Services and architected with ECS for reproducibility and scalability.

We utilize a growing amount of React on the front end to build rich client-side experiences, including our fully collaborative text editor and our slide presentation editor. We balance the strengths of both technologies — Rails for its conventions and simplicity and React for more powerful interactive functionality.

We embrace new technologies that help us deliver a lovable product, but we also remain cognizant of the maintenance overhead that a new library or platform brings. We solve the problems in front of us rather than prematurely optimizing to address issues that may never materialize.

We do most of our planning and collaboration in and built so that software engineers and their teams could take advantage of those same rich features. We use Slack and Zoom for video calls. (Email? Rarely.)

Your experience

Most of our features involve writing significant Ruby on Rails code so you should have experience working in a Rails codebase. We also write a lot of React but we are happy to help you learn that part on the job.

We believe that being a kind person who elevates the rest of the team is just as valuable as writing great code. You have strong problem-solving skills and experience working on important functionality for a cloud-based product. You are humble, eager to learn, and always willing to help others. You want teammates who enjoy solving problems regardless of the technologies and techniques involved. You have worked at meaningful scale before and want to do so again. You also have the below experience and skills :

4+ years of experience working in Ruby on Rails

Builder of scalable, efficient, and maintainable architectures

Experience developing features at a high-growth SaaS company

Active collaborator with product teams

Your work at Aha!

The growth team aims to better understand new users' intentions. We collaborate closely with product and marketing to develop new experiments that improve users' onboarding experience.

We work on a broad range of features across the full stack. As a Sr. Ruby on Rails Engineer for growth, your work will include :

Supporting top-of-funnel A / B test experiments

Supporting marketing's paid / organic acquisition efforts

Evolving new user experiences

Plumbing analytics with Looker

Enabling new product add-on and trial experiences

Using various combinations of React, Rails, and Looker for all of the above tasks

Working proactively with the product and UX teams to refine and iterate on specifications as features take shape

Interfacing directly with users to quickly squash bugs as part of our regular

Documenting components in our style guide to help drive consistency

If this sounds appealing, we would love to hear from you. (We are always hiring for this position and a real human reviews every application.)

Grow with us

Everyone deserves to reach their fullest potential. We know that when we do work that matters with people we care about in a high-growth environment, we feel engaged and alive. It is and how .

We offer all the benefits you would expect and more, including profit sharing. The specific benefits listed below are reflective of what we offer U.S.-based hires. We also do our best to extend identical benefits to international teammates.

The base salary range for this role in the US is between $110,000 and $190,000

Cash-based compensation also includes profit sharing and we contribute a percentage of your total pay each month towards your retirement

Medical, dental, and vision plans — for many teammates, we cover 100 percent of the premiums

Up to 200 hours of paid time off a year to spend however you want

30 to 90 days of paid parental leave and five to 10 days of paid care and bereavement leave

Up to $1,000 annually for third-party education, along with paid time off to immerse yourself in learning

Volunteer opportunities throughout the year

Base salary and total compensation are dependent upon many factors, such as : skills, experience, and relevant past roles

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