Senior Software Engineer II
Overview
Application Kit is an email-first operating system for creators who mean business. We help creators grow and monetize their audience with ease. For coaches, YouTubers, authors, podcasters, and other creatives, there isn't a better marketing hub to rely on to grow audiences, automate email marketing, and sell digital products — all within one platform.
Job Description
Kit is on a mission to help creators earn $1 billion using our creator marketing platform. We have always been 100% independent and 100% remote. We are proud to have built a product that our customers love, and we look for people who have enthusiasm and belief in our mission, vision, and values to join our team. We're also embracing AI thoughtfully — both in how we build and how we hire to ensure our team is adaptable, innovative, and ready for what's next.
Responsibilities
- - Dive into our codebase and publishing platform architecture
- - Set up your local environment and merge your first production code
- - Work through your personal onboarding plan
- - Lead and architect at least one major feature from ambiguous idea to launch
- - Transform our legacy codebase through strategic refactoring
- - 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 high-craft web applications, with a strong background in React, JavaScript, and modern CSS frameworks like tailwind
- - Experience with Ruby on Rails (preferred) or other backend frameworks and languages
- - Ability to architect systems that are well-designed, scalable, accessible, and easy to maintain
- - Proven ability to partner effectively with Product and Design
- - Clear and concise communication skills
- - Acting as a frontend subject-matter expert
- - Building complex web components
- - Leading complex technical projects
- - Championing solutions that have demonstrated large positive impact across teams
Benefits
- - Profit Sharing
- - Kit equity
- - 401k with a 5% match
- - Medical, dental, and vision premiums covered
- - $4,000 equipment allowance for your first 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
- - Paid paid vacation: An after-tax bonus of $1,000 for taking five consecutive days of vacation
- - Ten (10) paid holidays a year
- - Two weeks of paid sick time each year
- - Twelve (12) weeks paid parental leave
- - Up to six weeks of paid bereavement leave, medical leave, and disaster
- - Winter Break Closure
- - Four-week, paid sabbatical after five years
- - Fantastic in-person or virtual retreats with the team twice a year
About the company
Kit (formerly ConvertKit) is the email-first operating system for creators building a valuable business. Connect your favorite tools through the Kit App Store—from Squarespace to Patreon—and manage your entire creator business all in one place. Our growing ecosystem of apps lets you seamlessly integrate the platforms you already use while discovering powerful new tools to help your business thrive.
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