Aha - Senior Front End Engineer

All of our engineers work across the full stack. As a Senior Front End Engineer, you will spend the majority of your time working with React or HTML/CSS. You will also write significant back end code in Ruby on Rails to support the front end features you are building.

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 learn as well. 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:

• 2+ years of experience working in React
• Producing scalable, data-intensive React pages
• Experience building features (ideally at a high-growth SaaS company)
• Active collaborator with product teams

Aha! helps companies build lovable software. We provide the world's #1 product development tools — Aha! Roadmaps, Aha! Ideas, Aha! Notebooks, and Aha! Develop — which are used by more than 700,000 builders. 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 percent 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 use React for rich client-side experiences on the front end. Some of the features we have built with React include:

• Our fully collaborative text editor: Supports multiple cursors and simultaneous editing by any number of users. We pride ourselves in the underlying technology.
• Our presentation editor: Allows users to create presentations with slide themes, shapes, text, and embedded Aha! reports that update live so the presentation is always current.
• Our Gantt chart: Supports scaling and scrolling to change the timeline, drag-and-drop, and quick actions to create records or sort the bars.

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.)

We work on a broad range of features across the full stack. As a Senior Front End Engineer, your work will include:

• Implementing new features for our users, touching each layer of the MVC as needed
• Building deeply interactive reporting interfaces using React
• Working proactively with product and UX to refine and iterate on specifications as the feature takes shape
• Optimizing browser performance on screens and components that render large quantities of data to ensure Aha! is snappy and satisfying to use
• Interfacing 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.)