Senior Software Engineer II, Publishing - React

November 5

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Kit (formerly ConvertKit)

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B2B • eCommerce • SaaS

Kit (formerly ConvertKit) is the email-first operating system designed specifically for creators who want to build a valuable and purposeful business. It provides tools for managing email marketing, automating customer journeys, and integrating with other platforms, enabling users like authors, bloggers, and YouTubers to engage deeply with their audience and efficiently run their businesses. Kit focuses on fostering relationships and enhancing the impact of creators’ work beyond just monetary gains by offering features like personalized content recommendations, landing pages, and sales automation.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2013

🤝 B2B

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

💰 Seed Round on 2020-11

📋 Description

• You will be joining the Builders team, which builds the suite of publishing tools creators use to create emails, landing pages, and newsletters. Our team is responsible for creators' first experiences in the app, from onboarding, to activation, and conversion. And we steward Kit’s core application experience and design system. • You're a frontend expert who thinks full-stack. Modern frontend React development should be your superpower. You're obsessed with crafting exceptional user experiences and have shaped React architectures at scale. But you don't stop at the browser: you architect end-to-end features from database to deployment. • You'll help us raise the bar for how creators experience our publishing platform by combining your frontend mastery with full-stack execution. • You combine technical depth with leadership and extreme ownership. You partner closely with Product and Design to shape the “what” as well as the “how.” You thrive in ambiguity, take initiative, and elevate the people around you.

🎯 Requirements

• Deep expertise developing high-craft web applications, with a strong background in React, JavaScript, and modern CSS frameworks like tailwind • Experience with Ruby on Rails (preferred). Or experience with other backend frameworks and languages, with willingness to learn and master Ruby on Rails • Ability to architect systems that are well-designed, scalable, accessible, and easy to maintain, with a solid understanding of frontend testing practices • Proven ability to partner effectively with Product and Design to create delightful experiences, prioritizing user outcomes and business impact in your technical solutions • Clear and concise communication skills, tailoring messages to the audience and driving clarity across teams. • Acting as a frontend subject-matter expert, helping teams adopt modern frontend frameworks, patterns, and tradeoff decisions • Building complex web components, such as visual canvases or rich text editors • Leading complex technical projects from ambiguous ideation to launch and iteration beyond, taking extreme ownership to drive clarity, anticipate risks, and prioritize the biggest impact • Working across a legacy codebase and evolving it safely through migrations and system refactors • Championing solutions that have demonstrated large positive impact across teams.

🏖️ Benefits

• Profit Sharing • Kit equity • 401k with a 5% match • We cover up to $1,950 per month toward medical premiums, with dental and vision premiums fully covered. We offer Health Insurance plans through Aetna. • $4,000 equipment allowance for your first two years, $3,000 budget every following two years • Individual learning + development budget ($3,500/year) • Gender affirming benefits • Childcare benefit up to $3,000 annually • Twenty (20) days of paid time off during each year of employment • Paid paid vacation: An after-tax bonus of $1,000 for taking five consecutive days of vacation where you’re fully unplugged from work • Ten (10) paid holidays a year • Two weeks of paid sick time each year, including mental health + well being days • Twelve (12) weeks paid parental leave and flexible scheduling in your child’s first year • Up to six weeks of paid bereavement leave, medical leave, and disaster after six months of employment, two weeks of each paid leave in your first six months • Winter Break Closure: Kit closes for a week at the end of December, giving everyone a collective break to enjoy the holiday season. Essential support services remain available, with teams coordinating to ensure coverage during this period • Four-week, paid sabbatical after five years with the team • Fantastic in-person or virtual retreats with the team twice a year