Senior Software Engineer, Commerce

Job Description

DescriptionConvertKit is delightful email marketing software built for creators. We help creators own their audience and turn fans into customers. For makers, authors, chefs, musicians, athletes, and anyone else making a living by creating the culture we all love, there isn t a better tool for reaching inboxes. More importantly, there isn t a team more committed to helping creators earn a living doing work that matters.We re on a mission to help creators earn $1B using our SaaS email marketing platform. We are 100% independent, 100% remote and are growing rapidly.We are proud to have built a product that our customers love, and we re looking for people who have enthusiasm and belief in our mission, vision, and values to join our team.The RoleWere hiring an experienced engineer for our Commerce Squad. One of six squads in our Engineering organization, ConvertKit Commerce allows our users to bridge the gap between building their audience and earning an income.The team is currently staffed with four terrific humans: two engineers who have been working on Commerce since its inception, one of our newest engineers, and a manager whose primary focus is this team. We re looking for a senior Ruby/Rails engineer to round out the squad.ConvertKit Engineering is transitioning from a group of individuals who build the app to a more focused department that can serve our customers at scale. At the same time, we re still small (about 25 engineers). For an experienced individual contributor who likes to influence engineering culture and wants to work in a low-politics environment where we live our values, this is a great time to join. (Conversely, if you love continual reorgs, want to be handed feature specs with no opportunity to shape the projects, and like working on projects with distant deadlines and endlessly growing scope, we are not a good fit for you.)This role is remote - US and EMEA time zones preferred, but if you live elsewhere and can work in those time zones, that is okay. To learn more about how our engineering team works, peruse our engineering blog. Our post on working at ConvertKit as an engineer answers many of our FAQs and is mostly up to date., RequirementsThe Right Person Has

• Strong experience in developing end-to-end features, and--critically--an ability to understand various solutions and communicate clearly about likely benefits and tradeoffs
• Strong experience writing code that is accessible, scalable, maintainable, and performant
• A keen interest in working closely with Product and Engineering managers on prioritization. That includes analyzing risks and dependencies for proposed features, and providing insight into scope we can cut while still meeting business goals
• A commitment to mentoring and teaching other engineers formally and informally
• Experience with our stack (React and Ruby/Rails)
• Comfort working remotely in an autonomous and somewhat async environment
• Belief in our mission, vision, and values
• Specific past experiences related to payment infrastructure and transaction processing is a plus

• We work to foster close and effective relationships within the team. That means you actively listen to teammates, participate in conversations with candor, and use disagreements to make productive decisions
• We re accountable for the work we commit to. That means you proactively communicate blockers, hold yourself accountable to timeframes, and balance your work with unblocking others via code reviews, pair sessions, etc.
• We avoid unrealistic goals and burnout by setting deadlines, limiting scope, and reassessing reality as we go. That means you pay attention to what you re learning - about our code base, our systems, and our customer - discuss new insights with teammates regularly, and course correct as needed

Keyskills :
customer relationsemail marketingjavaemail marketing softwarejavascriptsqlsql servertransaction processingbehavioral training