Senior Software Engineer II - Ecosystem

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Dive into our codebase and extensibility and automation architecture
• - Set up your local environment and merge your first production code
• - Take part in Get To Know You's to meet our distributed team
• - Work through your personal onboarding plan
• - Begin understanding how Kit App Store supports creators from small to large, and identify opportunities for improvement
• - Join team activities for planning, building, and measuring the experiences we ship to creators
• - Actively participate in code reviews, and contribute PRs weekly
• - Lead and architect at least one major feature from ambiguous idea to launch
• - Transform our legacy codebase through strategic refactoring while applying systems thinking to enhance scalability and maintainability
• - Drive adoption of patterns and conventions that elevate team-wide technical standards
• - Ensure service reliability by participating in on-call rotations
• - Present at least one Lunch & Learn session
• - Actively mentor peers, and champion quality across our codebase

Required Skills

• - Deep expertise developing full-stack web applications using both Ruby on Rails and React, with a track record of owning features end to end
• - Ability to write high-quality, well-tested, performant, and accessible code that balances speed of delivery with long term maintainability with minimal guidance
• - Support strategic product decisions by anticipating business needs and translating them into technical solutions
• - Communicate highly effectively across Engineering, Product, and Design to maintain alignment and momentum across complex initiatives
• - Champion technical health through proactive monitoring, creating dashboards and alerting systems that identify issues early and drive systematic improvements
• - Ability to lead without authority, aligning teams on goals, trade-offs, and success criteria

Benefits

• - Profit Sharing
• - Kit equity
• - 401k with a 5% match
• - We cover up to $1,950 per month toward medical premiums, with dental and vision premiums fully covered
• - Health Insurance plans through Aetna
• - $4,000 equipment allowance for your first two years, $3,000 budget every following two years
• - Individual learning + development budget ($3,500/year)
• - Gender affirming benefits
• - Childcare benefit up to $3,000 annually
• - Twenty (20) days of paid time off during each year of employment
• - Paid paid vacation: An after-tax bonus of $1,000 for taking five consecutive days of vacation where you’re fully unplugged from work
• - Ten (10) paid holidays a year
• - Two weeks of paid sick time each year, including mental health + well being days
• - Twelve (12) weeks paid parental leave and flexible scheduling in your child’s first year
• - Up to six weeks of paid bereavement leave, medical leave, and disaster after six months of employment, two weeks of each paid leave in your first six months
• - Winter Break Closure: Kit closes for a week at the end of December, giving everyone a collective break to enjoy the holiday season
• - Four-week, paid sabbatical after five years with the team
• - Fantastic in-person or virtual retreats with the team twice a year