Senior Software Engineer II - Publishing

Overview

Job Description

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
• - Understand how our publishing tools support creators from onboarding to conversion
• - 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 complex web applications with high-craft beautiful user experiences, using React, JavaScript, and modern CSS frameworks like tailwind
• - Expertise with Ruby on Rails (preferred) or experience with other backend frameworks with willingness to learn and master Rails
• - Strong contributor across the stack, from the browser to the database
• - Ability to architect systems that are well-designed, scalable, accessible, and easy to maintain
• - Ability to plan, estimate, and execute complex ambiguous projects independently
• - Clear and concise communication skills, tailoring messages to the audience

Benefits

• - Profit Sharing
• - Kit equity
• - 401k with a 5% match
• - Up to $2,100 per month toward medical premiums, with dental and vision premiums fully covered
• - $2,000 equipment allowance for your first two years, $1,000 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
• - 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 after six months of employment
• - Four-week, paid sabbatical after five years with the team