Staff EngineerLeadSimpleFull Time$127k - $161k per year
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Collaboration skills Debugging Fluent English PostgreSQL React.js Ruby on Rails Software engineering

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:

  • 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

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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)

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Our Stack

Front-end

Back-end

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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!

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

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