🚀 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:
- Monthly Friday Free Day
- Company Holidays
- Paid Time Off (in addition to the above)
- Monthly Healthcare Allowance
- Yearly Vacation Allowance
- Fun and outcome driven work environment with a smart, hard working team
- Location independence
- Mission driven company and values-based culture
- Starting pay rate at $127,000 - 161,000 USD per year, commensurate with experience and skill
Qualifications
Must have
- 7+ years in senior engineering roles involving Ruby, 3+ years involving React
- Fluent spoken and written English at a professional level.
- Working hours must overlap with PST for at least 3 hours.
- Familiarity with PostgreSQL query optimization and scaling strategies
- Strong analytical and debugging skills
- Strong communication skills, able to recommend decisions using data and experience
Nice to have
- 10+ years in senior or staff software engineering roles involving Ruby, 5+ years involving React
- Typescript or GraphQL experience
- Elixir experience (we have 1 service using Elixir)
Our Stack
Front-end
Back-end
What It's Like To Work Here
- 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.
- 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.
- You’ll collaborate within a small, highly productive team, reviewing code and helping other engineers with their roadblocks.
- You’ll have time to focus. We don’t micromanage, and we do our best to keep distractions (and meetings) to a minimum.
- When assigned to on-call duty, you’ll investigate and fix bugs and respond to incidents.
- You’ll deploy early and often. We ship to production multiple times per day.
Benefits
- Remote-only team, location independent
- 3rd Friday of every month off
- 6 US Holidays
- 3 Weeks Paid Time Off (in addition to the above)
- Quarterly Two-Week Hackathons
- Monthly Healthcare Allowance
- Yearly Vacation Allowance
- $2000 equipment stipend upon hire
- Focused and dedicated environment with smart, caring people
- Consistent, but flexible working schedule with minimum 3hr Pacific Time Zone overlap
- 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.