Senior Software Engineer - remote

Teamshares

Posted 3 years ago

Ruby Architecture Web Infrastructure Less Financial Design Product System Rails Vision Software Customer Build Package Foundation Core Digital Culture

WHAT IS TEAMSHARES?

Teamshares helps small businesses become employee-owned. You can think of us as a hybrid of a software company, an investment company, an education company, and a support network.

WHY WE EXIST:

Teamshares’ mission to expand employee ownership addresses three major problems for small businesses that make up 98% of US firms in our economy, and their employees:

Most small businesses don’t outlast their founder. When original owners want to retire, they often struggle to sell—failing 80% of the time—and have to fold the company. Years of knowledge and customer loyalty, not to mention people’s jobs, are lost. We believe that employees are the natural successors for these companies, but they just need some support.

The majority of Americans have very few assets or savings. People work hard every day, often with very little to show for it: 75% of Americans have less than $5,000 in savings. Employee ownership gives workers a very valuable asset: stock in the company where they work. And the better their company does, the more their asset is worth!

Small businesses lack support &innovation. Because small businesses lack the infrastructure and resources that corporations have, their technology and their business practices are often behind the times. Very few quality networks exist to provide information or resources to small businesses to help them grow.

There hasn’t been an easy way for small businesses to become employee-owned before. Teamshares has designed a way to make this transition easier at scale, supporting a sector of the economy that has been severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

Collaborate with product, design, and business ops teams to build software that addresses these unique problems:
Identifying, evaluating, and acquiring companies that best fit our model
Creating the preeminent management system and software for how small businesses should operate and self-govern
Building digital education experiences that teach financial fluency and make employee-ownership tangible and actionable
Drive technical architecture decisions that lay the foundation of our digital products for years to come
Solve problems with a measurable impact: we’re helping thousands of low/mid-income employees across America earn 5-6 figure ownership stakes through our model of participatory capitalism

WHAT YOU BRING:

3+ years experience developing user-facing features in a modern web stack (Ruby on Rails strongly preferred)
An empathetic approach to and passion for solving customer problems. You’re able to think in terms of product, not just code.
A creative, entrepreneurial mindset. You love jumping into new problem spaces and figuring out the right solution.

WHY JOIN US?

We believe in supporting every team member with a generous benefits package:

Competitive salary
Equity
Exceptional medical, dental, and vision benefits plans
401k plan
Paid parental leave
We value time off and actually take our vacations
Healthy work-life balance culture that checks egos at the door and truly unplugs at the end of the day
Support for ongoing training and development

We’re remote-first

Our 18-person team is spread all across the country—you can live and work anywhere you like.

We’re committed to our core values

Trust comes first
Take initiative
Act thoughtfully
Show empathy
Make things better
Be dependable

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