Senior Software Engineer

Founded in Irvine, California, in 2010, Kajabi is a leading all-in-one platform for knowledge entrepreneurs to build, market, and sell educational content. With Kajabi’s robust product features, users have a single ecosystem in which they can publish, market, and sell online courses, membership sites, communities, and other digital products. Tens of thousands of entrepreneurs rely on Kajabi to build and manage their online businesses, and the company has helped these entrepreneurs generate over $3.5 billion in sales from over 60 million customers to date. We are purpose-led and performance driven, people-focused, and supportive. Learn more at www.kajabi.com.

We are looking for experienced engineers to join our growing team and help deliver the product vision of our digital knowledge platform at Kajabi. This is an important hire for Kajabi as you will be a key contributor to critical products in the Kajabi ecosystem. Today, our application is powering tens of thousands of businesses with over 1B GMV annually. Kajabi is building one of the fastest-growing, category-defining products for the creator economy. We offer a flexible working schedule and are open to remote and local applicants.

You will be responsible for the design and build of critical systems and features within the Kajabi platform and ecosystem alongside working with our amazing product team. You must be experienced in building highly scalable and resilient systems that can meet our customers needs and perform under load.  You’ll collaborate with other engineers across the organization to solve complex, technical, and interdependent problems. We offer a flexible working schedule and are open to remote and local applicants.

The Impact you will make

• Design and develop critical systems, platforms, and features within the Kajabi platform and ecosystem
• Partnering with internal and external stakeholders to define and implement alternate methods increases Kajabi’s offering for knowledge entrepreneurs to build their business
• Integrate with 3rd party systems to build new solutions for Kajabi’s platform
• Work cross-functionally with our product managers and designers to plan, strategize and execute against the roadmap for Kajabis key initiatives according to our product principles - think big, start small, ship to learn, give our customers superpowers
• Write clean, simple, well-tested code that is easy to understand and maintain
• Review code written by other developers both in and outside of your team
• Create reusable and maintainable systems and abstractions
• Provide technical leadership, feedback and mentorship to mid-level and junior developers
• Occasionally participate in customer feedback interviews led by the product manager or designer to gain insights into our customer's experience of the product
• Serve as a point-person during work hours for one week as part of our rotating schedule

Attributes for Success 

• 5+ years of experience
• Experience with Ruby on Rails and an understanding of other languages and frameworks such as Javascript, C#, Python, Go
• You have deep understanding and strong experience designing and building systems with object oriented programming languages
• Experience building out various APIs protocols/architectures from the ground up (REST, GraphQL)
• Deployment and operational experience using cloud platforms like AWS or Heroku
• You are a believer in SOLID principles, automated testing, CI/CD, and keeping our platform operationally excellent
• You feel confident architecting features without much help and are able to get unstuck most of the time
• You’ve shipped, operated, scaled, and supported applications in a high traffic SaaS environment
• You’re a software engineer who cares deeply about delivering operationally excellent systems through meticulous attention to details
• You take a thoughtful approach to decision making; knowing when to move fast and when to do things right
• You have a results-oriented approach, with an inherent ability to solve complex problems and deliver a high-quality product
• You have some experience providing technical leadership and guidance

Kajabi Team Benefits Package

• Company paid premiums for medical, dental and vision insurance for self and family
• Company sponsored HSA account
• Company 401K, 100% match up-to 6% of employee contributions 
• Equity
• Flexible vacation policy
• Telecommuting 
• Fitness incentives package
• Company funded mental health resources
• Wellness perks
• Casual Dress

How To Apply

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• Remote and local applicants welcome!
• Links - Send along any links that best showcase your experience, i.e. your portfolio, LinkedIn, blog posts, other writing samples, etc.

Kajabi LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law. #LI-Remote #LI-JK1