Senior Software Engineer II

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Dive into our codebase and publishing platform 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 our publishing tools support creators from onboarding to conversion
• - 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
• - 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
• - 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
• - Ability to prioritize user outcomes and business impact in your technical solutions
• - Clear and concise communication skills, tailoring messages to the audience and driving clarity across teams
• - Building complex web components, such as visual canvases or rich text editors
• - Solving ambiguous problems and owning complex technical projects with demonstrated impact on a business
• - Developing strong cross-functional partnerships, especially with Product and Design
• - Working across a legacy codebase and evolving it safely through migrations and system refactors
• - Leading technical projects from ambiguous ideation to launch and iteration beyond

Benefits

• - Profit Sharing
• - Kit equity
• - 401k with a 5% match
• - Monthly medical benefits up to $1,950 a month toward premiums
• - Dental and vision premiums covered 100%
• - $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
• - Four-week, paid sabbatical after five years with the team
• - Fantastic in-person or virtual retreats with the team twice a year