ConvertKit 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 RoleYou’ll join a small team of engineers responsible for building and supporting ConvertKit Commerce (which beta launches July 15). ConvertKit Commerce allows our users to bridge the gap between building and connecting with their audience and earning an income. You’ll collaborate with other engineers, designers, and product managers to support improvements based on user feedback and build new features.
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.
Responsibilities and SuccessesWe are hiring for a level 3 or level 4 engineer. Responsibilities and impacts for the two levels differ and are the following:
Your Responsibilities and Impact as a Level 3 Engineer:
- Work closely with the team to help define technical direction and architecture.
- Work closely with Product and Engineering managers to break down projects into well-defined engineering focused tasks and estimate effectively. You provide feedback on risks, dependencies, and insight into what scope can be cut while still meeting business goals.
- Work to foster close and effective relationships within the team: you actively listen to teammates, practice radical candor, and lean in to productive disagreements.
- You’re accountable for the work you commit to. You proactively communicate blockers, delays, and surface potential hidden complexities.
Your Responsibilities and Impact as a Level 4 Engineer:
- Provide technical leadership to the team and work with the team to define technical direction and architecture.
- Work closely with Product and Engineering managers to break down ambitious projects into well-defined engineering focused tasks and estimate effectively. You provide feedback on risks, dependencies, and insight into what scope can be cut while still meeting business goals.
- Work to foster close and effective relationships within the team: you actively listen to teammates, practice radical candor, and lean in to productive disagreements.
- You’re accountable for the work you commit to. You proactively communicate blockers, delays, and surface potential hidden complexities.
The right person for this role has:
- Confidence architecting end-to-end features, including starting conversations about behavior, edge cases, and blockers when necessary
- Strong experience architecting code that is accessible, scalable, maintainable, and performant
- 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 asynchronous environment
- Belief in our mission, vision, and values
- Past experience with Stripe integrations and Go are nice to haves
Salary
ConvertKit has standardized salaries based on position, no matter where you live. For this role we’re hiring at a level 3 ($115,000) or level 4 ($135,000). Level is based upon your experience, our interview process, and our engineering matrix.
Other Benefits Include
- 3 weeks paid vacation, increasing to 4 weeks paid vacation after 1 year of employment
- $1,000 yearly vacation bonus for taking 5 consecutive days of vacation
- 9 paid holidays
- 2 weeks of sick leave per year, including mental health days
- Up to 6 weeks paid bereavement leave, medical leave, and natural disaster leave after 6 months of employment, 2 weeks for each paid leave in your first 6 months
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 12 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, 8 weeks paid parental leave for secondary caregivers, with flexible scheduling in your child’s first year
- Profit sharing
- $3,200 equipment allowance for your first two years, $2,500 budget every following two years for U.S.-based team members
- 401k with a 4% match
- Personal learning and development budget
- Yearly conference credit
- Fantastic twice a year team retreats, virtual or in-person depending on the circumstances
This role will close on July 31, 2020. We usually receive a large number of applications, and hope to get through them within two weeks of the close date. You’ll hear from us either way.
Here’s what you can expect from the rest of our hiring process:
We’ll keep you informed through every step. To get started, complete this application, including a cover letter and answers to the questions on the next page.
ConvertKit is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity in all its forms and we hire the best person for each role, no matter your personal background. Research tells us that applicants who are female or non-binary, as well as applicants who are people of color, are less likely to apply for roles they do not feel 100% qualified for.
We encourage every person who is interested to apply. We’re imperfect communicators, so think of this posting as the starting point for discussion rather than proof you shouldn’t apply. Take the leap. You never know, you might be the perfect person for this role, even if you don’t match 100% of the job description above.