What are the responsibilities and job description for the Tech Lead position at CareerPlug?
Be a key contributor to an exciting remote-first software company!
Our Why.
CareerPlug empowers teams to grow. We do this, in part, by making it easier for our SMB (Small and Medium-sized Business) clients to hire and retain the right people. We want to positively impact the lives of our employees, our small business owner clients and their applicants/teams, a reach that impacts millions each year!
What We Do.
We provide innovative recruiting and retention software for over 60,000 locations and solve one of the biggest problems in small businesses - attracting and retaining the right people. Our applicant tracking and retention platform helps companies make better hires to have the right people in place to build a successful business. Our vision is leading us along an inspiring path to accomplish much more. The next stage of our growth will be powerful and will exponentially propel us toward exciting business, and more importantly, mission milestones.
We believe that people are the heart of our business and are committed to building one of the best places to work -- anywhere. To us, that means putting care and purpose into our hiring process, providing meaningful development and training opportunities for our team members, and living our core values every day.
CareerPlug is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse team. Our leadership takes responsibility for creating a safe and welcoming environment built on inclusion and respect for all.
Who are we looking for?
Tech Leads at CP are at the center of value delivery; first and foremost helping to ensure we build the right thing “what is possible” — as well as ensuring the thing is built right “making the possible, reality” (by driving the technical/architectural direction of our software).
You’ll take an active role in the full product development lifecycle - working closely with your cross-functional team, aka "Quad" (Tech Lead, Product Designer, Product Manager, and Growth Product Manager), and managers serving Product to conceptualize and prioritize features, and overseeing technical implementation. This role straddles the product and technical domains to align technology decisions with product strategy and vision.
This role involves working closely with a team of engineers of a variety of levels, ensuring high-quality code, and aligning technical solutions with the company's strategic goals.
What technologies do we use?
Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS
Job Responsibilities:
State the Possible. Marty Cagan is well known for saying, "If you’re just using your engineers to code, you’re only getting about half their value." A big reason why to continue from Marty: "They’re working with the enabling technology every day, so they’re in the best position to see what’s just now possible". All members of the Quad must be a part of discovering the solutions and shaping the intended value (we call this being a Value Shaper)... stating the possible and helping ensure we are continuously learning are critical to the Quad's success
Continuously Be Learning. Delivering on a project is table stakes. Breaking up a project into minimal progressable units takes the type of skill we look for! What is a Minimal Progressable Unit (MPU)? Progress is defined as either: (1) adding value to the customer, (2) adding clarity to stakeholders about what is possible and what is coming, (3) de-risking an initiative. Above all an MPU is about learning. If there is an opportunity to learn, we must take advantage by being vigilant and constantly on the lookout. This means valuing effectiveness over efficiency. Efficient being "we can build all of this if we stay focused in X time" vs "we can build this iteration in Y time... but we'll learn if building Z is worth it if we pause there... yes it'll be more time overall, but we'll be learning along the way".
Possible into Reality. The other three members of the Quad are dedicated to a Base. Meaning they serve multiple squads. However, tech leads are dedicated to a single squad. Why? Primarily because we expect the tech lead to be a deep expert in the functional area their quad is responsible for. Including the tech debt and other headwinds. These headwinds are mentioned here because they are one of the many factors that have to be addressed in the journey towards value delivered. Ultimately, squads design, build, and are then responsible for the operations of the software. The tech lead is at the center of the responsibility: turning the dream of the possible into a reality full of high-quality software that our customers love.
Benefits:
Compensation: This role pays a base salary of $169,000 with an additional $10,000 in bonus potential.
CareerPlug believes in equitable and transparent compensation practices. All our employees have access to what every role pays at the company. We post compensation on all our job postings. In order to ensure equitability and fairness for candidates and current employees, we always lead at our best and don’t negotiate offers.
This is a remote position.
Our Why.
CareerPlug empowers teams to grow. We do this, in part, by making it easier for our SMB (Small and Medium-sized Business) clients to hire and retain the right people. We want to positively impact the lives of our employees, our small business owner clients and their applicants/teams, a reach that impacts millions each year!
What We Do.
We provide innovative recruiting and retention software for over 60,000 locations and solve one of the biggest problems in small businesses - attracting and retaining the right people. Our applicant tracking and retention platform helps companies make better hires to have the right people in place to build a successful business. Our vision is leading us along an inspiring path to accomplish much more. The next stage of our growth will be powerful and will exponentially propel us toward exciting business, and more importantly, mission milestones.
We believe that people are the heart of our business and are committed to building one of the best places to work -- anywhere. To us, that means putting care and purpose into our hiring process, providing meaningful development and training opportunities for our team members, and living our core values every day.
CareerPlug is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse team. Our leadership takes responsibility for creating a safe and welcoming environment built on inclusion and respect for all.
Who are we looking for?
Tech Leads at CP are at the center of value delivery; first and foremost helping to ensure we build the right thing “what is possible” — as well as ensuring the thing is built right “making the possible, reality” (by driving the technical/architectural direction of our software).
You’ll take an active role in the full product development lifecycle - working closely with your cross-functional team, aka "Quad" (Tech Lead, Product Designer, Product Manager, and Growth Product Manager), and managers serving Product to conceptualize and prioritize features, and overseeing technical implementation. This role straddles the product and technical domains to align technology decisions with product strategy and vision.
This role involves working closely with a team of engineers of a variety of levels, ensuring high-quality code, and aligning technical solutions with the company's strategic goals.
What technologies do we use?
Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS
Job Responsibilities:
- Write clear, maintainable code and provide thoughtful code reviews that elevate the entire team.
- Collaborate with Quad to shape solutions aimed at value delivered
- Provide technical mentorship to engineers, guiding their growth both as engineers and as effective members of product teams
- Be a strong steward of the domains you oversee within the codebase across the engineering organization
- Continuously improve the technical processes within Engineering and at the critical points where Engineering integrates with other functions
- Ensure that high-quality software reaches customers frequently and reliably
State the Possible. Marty Cagan is well known for saying, "If you’re just using your engineers to code, you’re only getting about half their value." A big reason why to continue from Marty: "They’re working with the enabling technology every day, so they’re in the best position to see what’s just now possible". All members of the Quad must be a part of discovering the solutions and shaping the intended value (we call this being a Value Shaper)... stating the possible and helping ensure we are continuously learning are critical to the Quad's success
Continuously Be Learning. Delivering on a project is table stakes. Breaking up a project into minimal progressable units takes the type of skill we look for! What is a Minimal Progressable Unit (MPU)? Progress is defined as either: (1) adding value to the customer, (2) adding clarity to stakeholders about what is possible and what is coming, (3) de-risking an initiative. Above all an MPU is about learning. If there is an opportunity to learn, we must take advantage by being vigilant and constantly on the lookout. This means valuing effectiveness over efficiency. Efficient being "we can build all of this if we stay focused in X time" vs "we can build this iteration in Y time... but we'll learn if building Z is worth it if we pause there... yes it'll be more time overall, but we'll be learning along the way".
Possible into Reality. The other three members of the Quad are dedicated to a Base. Meaning they serve multiple squads. However, tech leads are dedicated to a single squad. Why? Primarily because we expect the tech lead to be a deep expert in the functional area their quad is responsible for. Including the tech debt and other headwinds. These headwinds are mentioned here because they are one of the many factors that have to be addressed in the journey towards value delivered. Ultimately, squads design, build, and are then responsible for the operations of the software. The tech lead is at the center of the responsibility: turning the dream of the possible into a reality full of high-quality software that our customers love.
Benefits:
- Work from home (we're fully remote)
- Employer-Paid Health Insurance
- Unlimited PTO (with minimums!)
- One week paid PTO (pre-start date)
- Life Insurance
- Long Term Disability
- Pet Insurance
- Home Office Stipend
- 401(k) Company Match
- Donation Matching
Compensation: This role pays a base salary of $169,000 with an additional $10,000 in bonus potential.
CareerPlug believes in equitable and transparent compensation practices. All our employees have access to what every role pays at the company. We post compensation on all our job postings. In order to ensure equitability and fairness for candidates and current employees, we always lead at our best and don’t negotiate offers.
This is a remote position.
Salary : $169,000
