Staff Engineer

Want to join a team of A-players in an exciting, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment?

LeadSimple is a small team solving big problems in the property management industry. Bootstrapped since 2013, we're passionate about helping small businesses grow sustainably.

Our software provides a powerful foundation for any property management company to take their business to the next level. Thousands of property managers rely on us for their day-to-day operations and we’re only getting started.

We’re looking for seasoned Senior and Staff Ruby on Rails Engineers to join our fully-remote team to help us scale to meet market demand. This is an opportunity to join on the ground floor of a bootstrapped, growing company with a lot of upside.

Expectations for your first 6 months:

• Within 90 Days: Become familiar with the Engineering Team’s internal processes, LeadSimple’s architecture and production environment, and the overall product using our customer facing documentation.
• Conduct technical interviews with potential engineering candidates and make recommendations to hiring managers.
• Participate in an on-call rotation at least three times
• Own the Engineering Team’s maintenance pitches for betting table cycles.
• Replace the Head of Engineering as the team’s go-to advisor on technical decisions (including PR reviews).
• Identify, pitch, and successfully complete at least two high-impact, high-complexity projects.

A day in the life of…

• Unblock critical or complex requests from the team by providing expert review and advice.
• Actively share your knowledge and expertise to help the team level up.
• Review work samples from candidates and attend interviews.
• Provide Engineering Managers with feedback on performance and promotion decisions for individual team members.
• Advise the leadership team of ongoing engineering projects.
• Ensure consistent software quality by advocating for and leading adoption of industry best practices
• Manage the technical design, tasks, delivery and deadlines for assigned projects, following the Shape Up process.
• Write Shape Up pitches for potential projects to improve the scalability, performance or team productivity. Advocate for these projects at the Betting Table using data and analysis.
• Help us scale the team, product and company by proposing improvements that will make us more effective.

Perks:

1. Monthly Friday Free Day
2. Company Holidays
3. Paid Time Off (in addition to the above)
4. Monthly Healthcare Allowance
5. Yearly Vacation Allowance
6. Fun and outcome driven work environment with a smart, hard working team
7. Location independence
8. Mission driven company and values-based culture

Qualifications

Must have

1. 7+ years in senior engineering roles involving Ruby, 3+ years involving React
2. Fluent spoken and written English at a professional level.
3. Working hours must overlap with PST for at least 3 hours.
4. Familiarity with PostgreSQL query optimization and scaling strategies
5. Strong analytical and debugging skills
6. Strong communication skills, able to recommend decisions using data and experience

Nice to have

1. 10+ years in senior or staff software engineering roles involving Ruby, 5+ years involving React
2. React, Typescript or GraphQL experience
3. Elixir experience (we have 1 service using Elixir)

Our Stack

• Front-end
• Typescript
• React
• MaterialUI
• Relay

Back-end

• Ruby on Rails monolith (with 95% test coverage)
• GraphQL (via graphql-ruby gem)
• Sidekiq
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Heroku

What it’s like to work here

1. You’ll have opportunities to work on the entire stack, from databases to user interfaces and everything in between, in a wide variety of product areas.
2. You’ll own the delivery of high-impact projects that affect real customers, from start to finish, with no bureaucracy, following the Shape Up method.
3. You’ll collaborate within a small, highly productive team, reviewing code and helping other engineers with their roadblocks.
4. You’ll have time to focus. We don’t micromanage, and we do our best to keep distractions (and meetings) to a minimum.
5. When assigned to on-call duty, you’ll investigate and fix bugs and respond to incidents.
6. You’ll deploy early and often. We ship to production multiple times per day.

Benefits

1. Remote-only team, location independent
2. 3rd Friday of every month off
3. 6 US Holidays
4. 3 Weeks Paid Time Off (in addition to the above)
5. Quarterly Two-Week Hackathons
6. Monthly Healthcare Allowance
7. Yearly Vacation Allowance
8. $2000 equipment stipend upon hire
9. Focused and dedicated environment with smart, caring people
10. Consistent, but flexible working schedule with minimum 3hr Pacific Time Zone overlap
11. Mission driven, non-political company and values-based culture

Our Interview Process

• Fill out our application, located here
• Intro call with People Operations (30 minutes)
• Offline work sample test (up to 60 minutes)
• Interview with Hiring Manager (up to 60-90 minutes)
• Possible panel interview (up to 60 minutes)
• Offer call (15 minutes), followed by a written offer
• If you accept the offer, you enter a 90-day trial period, fully paid.
• If all goes well in your first 90 days, you convert to a full-time team member!

NOTE: We are not accepting applications in California, Colorado, or New York at this time.

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