Ruby on Rails Engineer

Aha! is the world's #1 product development software. We help over 1 million product builders bring their strategy to life. Our suite of tools includes Aha! Roadmaps , Aha! Ideas , Aha! Whiteboards , Aha! Knowledge , and Aha! Develop . Product teams rely on our expertise, guided templates, and training programs via Aha! Academy to be their best. We are proud to be a very different type of high-growth SaaS company. The business is self-funded, profitable, and 100% remote. We are recognized as one of the best fully remote companies to work for, champion the Bootstrap Movement , and have given over $1M to people in need through Aha! Cares . Learn more at www.aha.io .

Our Team

Aha! engineering is a mid-sized, fully remote team that is highly productive. We are centered around North American time zones so we can collaborate during the workday.

We help each other grow: We each bring unique

skills to the table and want our teammates to feel valued from the start. Our onboarding program exposes new hires to the codebase and lets them contribute right away. We move quickly: We ship code multiple times a day. We believe in getting valuable features in front of customers and iteratively improving as we learn what works and what does not. We value product over process: We want the team to have the time and focus on solving complex challenges. We minimize the overhead by setting clear goals and avoiding heavyweight processes and excessive meetings.

We share knowledge freely: We share our learnings with each other and with the developer community. Our engineering blog demonstrates how we tackle interesting challenges at Aha! We enjoy: We like what we do. And we want you to love your team and your job too. Learn more about The Responsive Method , our company values , and the generous

benefits we offer.

Our Technology

Our web application is a single-instance, multi-tenant Ruby on Rails monolith supported by Postgres (database), Redis (background jobs), and memcached (Rails caching). We also run a Node.js webserver to support collaborative editing and real-time updates. Our application is hosted on Amazon Web Services and architected with ECS for reproducibility and scalability.

We Utilize A Growing Amount Of React On The Front End To Build Rich Client-side

experiences, including our fully collaborative text editor and our slide presentation editor. We balance the strengths of both technologies — Rails for its conventions and simplicity and React for more powerful interactive functionality.

We embrace new technologies that help us deliver a lovable product, but we also remain cognizant of the maintenance overhead that a new library or platform brings. We solve the problems in front of us rather than prematurely optimizing to address issues that may never materialize.

We do most of our planning and collaboration in Aha! Roadmaps and built Aha! Develop so that software engineers and their teams could take advantage of those same rich features. We use Slack and Zoom for video calls. (Email? Rarely.)

Your

Experience

Most of our features involve writing significant Ruby on Rails code, so you should have

experience working in a Rails codebase. We also write a lot of React but we are happy to help you learn that part on the job.

Skills

We believe that being a kind person who elevates the rest of the team is just as valuable as writing great code. You have strong problem-solving

skills and

experience working on important functionality for a cloud-based product. You are humble, eager to learn, and always willing to help others. You want teammates who enjoy solving problems regardless of the technologies and techniques involved. You have worked at meaningful scale before and want to do so again. You also have the below

experience and

skills:

Two+ years of

experience working in Ruby on Rails

Experience producing scalable, efficient, and maintainable code

Experience building features (ideally at a high-growth SaaS company)Active collaborator with product teams

Your work at Aha!

We Work On a Broad Range Of Features Across The Full Stack. As a Ruby On Rails Engineer, Your Work Will Include

Implementing new features for our users, touching each layer of the MVC as neededBuilding deeply interactive reporting interfaces using ReactWorking proactively with product and UX to refine and iterate on specifications as the feature takes shapeInvestigating slow performance and optimizing queries to ensure Aha! is snappy and satisfying to useInterfacing directly with users to quickly squash bugs as part of our regular customer support rotation Documenting components in our style guide to help drive consistency

If this role sounds appealing, we would love to hear from you. (A real human reviews every application.)

Grow With Us

Everyone deserves to reach their fullest potential. We know that when we do work that matters with people we care about in a high-growth environment, we feel engaged and alive. It is why we joined Aha! and how we achieve our very best .

We Offer All The

benefits you would expect and more, including profit sharing. The specific

benefits listed below are reflective of

what we offer U.S.-based hires. We also do our best to extend identical

benefits to international teammates.

The Base

salary range for this role in the US is between $100,000 and $160,000.Cash-based

compensation also includes profit sharing, and we contribute a percentage of your total pay each month toward your retirement.Medical, dental, and vision plans (for many teammates, we cover 100% of the premiums)Up to 200 hours of paid time off a year to spend however you want30 to 90 days of paid parental leave and five to 10 days of paid care and bereavement leaveUp to $1,000 annually for third-party

education, along with paid time off to immerse yourself in learningVolunteer opportunities throughout the year

Base

salary and total

compensation are dependent upon many factors, including

skills,

experience, and relevant past roles.