Senior Software Engineer, Brewery Solutions

Job Description

Next Glass is a fast-growing SaaS technology company brewing up an array of Consumer and B2B products for craft beer enthusiasts, bar/restaurant/bottle shop retailers, and breweries & other producers in the beverage alcohol industry.

Our award-winning Untappd mobile app is used by millions of beer enthusiasts around the world. For retailers, our Untappd for Business product enables venues to streamline publication and promotion of menus, reach new audiences, and gain insight to their customers. Our product suite for breweries, Ollie, helped brewers produce and sell over 9,000,000 gallons of beer last year. We are proud to have been recognized and featured in the following media outlets:

• Inc. Best Places to Work in 2019.
• #150 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing US companies.
• #53 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list of fastest-growing companies in North America.
• #98 on the Entrepreneur magazine’s list of 360 most entrepreneurial companies.
• Featured in Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Food & Wine, and Forbes.

Job Description

Next Glass is looking for an experienced full-stack software engineer to join our Brewery Solutions team. In this role you will work in a modern Ruby on Rails tech stack including Hotwire and Stimulus building the Ollie Ops and Ollie Order SaaS applications for breweries. Collaborating with other experienced engineers, you’ll work to expand Ollie’s capabilities and unlock new value for craft breweries in North America and around the world.

Location: 

Next Glass Engineering is distributed and fully remote. However, you must be authorized to work in the United States or Canada and have regular work-week availability during U.S. business hours in ET, CT, MT, or PT time zones.  

What we look for:

• Recent experience working on B2B or B2C SaaS software products
• Strong technical skill set with Ruby on Rails and JavaScript
• Solid grasp of web front-end fundamentals (HTML, CSS, JS, responsive design, etc)
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical people
• Experience working closely with other developers
• Experience writing tests for your code, unit, functional, integration, etc.
• Outcome oriented and highly motivated, takes self-initiative and has willingness to learn
• An understanding of modern web best practices with a desire to delight your users
• A strong desire to share what you know and help others get better at their craft

Responsibilities

• Work with the Engineering Manager and Product Manager to implement technical and product requirements, collaborating with team members in execution
• Undertake continuous improvement of the technology stack, infrastructure, application uptime and performance.
• Share knowledge and feedback to peers on code quality, product design and system design.
• Gain an understanding of the beer production process and business domain, and work with the Product team to help refine requirements for new features and enhancements.
• Takes part in support ticket escalations in order to assist the team in diagnosing and resolving customer inquiries and problems
• Takes part in an on-call rotation to support the application in the event of rare outages and incidents

Bonus

• Experience with Stimulus, ViewComponents, Hotwire, Tailwind
• Experience with double entry accounting or integrating with accounting platforms
• Experience home brewing or knowledge of the process of brewing beer

We believe that expertise comes in many forms and that passion, dedication, and ownership can't be perfectly distilled to a list of qualifications. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the right candidate for this or other roles in our company. We're looking for individuals who are eager to bring their unique contributions to our collaborative environment and who are driven to grow and evolve with us

AI Policy for Job Applications

At Next Glass, we embrace the use of AI tools to enhance productivity and efficiency in our work. However, during the application process, we ask that you do not use AI assistants to generate responses. We want to understand your personal interest in Next Glass without AI mediation and assess your ability to communicate and problem-solve without assistance.

Additionally, if you progress to a live coding assessment, we may ask you to disable AI coding assistance to ensure we are evaluating your independent technical skills.