Senior Software Engineer, Backend (EHI)

Our client is a 3D data and technology company for home improvement and property insurance professionals. With a team of investors, including Google Ventures and Menlo Ventures, the company is committed to continuing our success and facilitating growth.

Why the company wants you:

The Company is looking for a strong engineer motivated by scaling a new platform of products that unlocks a major revenue stream for a series D company.

You’d be joining our Exterior Home Improvement (EHI) team - a team charged with building a new platform of products to complement the company's powerful measurements product. The EHI team is key to unlocking the company’s growth and is dedicated to building the best product of its kind on the market. The EHI product has a solid market fit and we are ready to start scaling our team and users.

The EHI team consists of driven and eager-to-learn engineers with a wide range of experience. We are committed to being at the forefront of pushing the technological envelope at the company. As a group of growth-minded teammates, we don't take ourselves too seriously, enjoy close collaboration, and care about the success of the products we build. On this team, we believe that it's better to:

make many small moves than few large ones

reduce knowledge silos than optimize for short-term gains

spend our Fridays learning instead of squeezing out more commits

always be growing instead of doing what is familiar

encourage team creativity in solutions rather than be prescriptive

You will contribute by:

• By month 1, you will have:
• Understood our team's mission as well as our development cycle
• Achieved a high-level understanding of our codebase
• Delivered high-quality code through pair programming on a major feature currently limiting our ability to scale our platform

By month 3, you will have:

• Architected feature(s) that help validate or challenge product assumptions along our path to capture more of the market
• Established a smooth development cadence by working with Product and Design

By month 6, you will have:

• Led the development of several features that will lay the foundation for our team to become a major revenue driver for the company
• Mentored other engineers of all levels on best practices to ensure we continue to move fast
• Elevated the productivity of EHI's engineering team through tactfully challenging the status quo, making incremental improvements, and finding the right tools for the job

Your background includes

• 4+ years building backend applications with at least 2+ years of Ruby/Rails experience
• Experience or interest in working with a modern frontend framework (React, Vue, etc)
• Extensive experience with all aspects of testing fullstack applications: unit, functional, feature, and end-to-end
• Extensive experience architecting and building reliable, scalable, maintainable high-traffic applications

Must Have

• +5 years of Ruby on Rails experience is a requirement
• Must be willing to work in Ruby on Rails

Strongly Preferred (Positives)

• Experience in similar size companies (350 employees). Extremes won’t work, if they’ve only worked at <10 people startup or someone only from Google. Need to see the fit. Experience in startups is not necessarily a requirement.
• Business minded candidates are doing very well. They work well with Product Manager, can communicate well. Teams are very cross functional in nature. They need to have exposure to different functions like Design, PM, QA