Be a key contributor to an exciting remote-first software company!

Our Why.

CareerPlug empowers others to reach their potential. We do this, in part, by making it easier for our SMB (Small and Medium-sized Business) clients to hire and develop 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 HR software for over 30,000 clients 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.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for an experienced software engineer to join CareerPlug’s tight-knit and highly productive Engineering team. We take pride in our lean, efficient approach to product design and software development and we value high-level contributions from every member of our team. The right candidate will be motivated by the challenge of writing clean, maintainable code in Ruby and JavaScript to build and maintain mature, complex, and constantly growing software products.

Our developers work full-stack, building new features from scratch, and balance their work on new features with bug fixes, innovation projects, and infrastructure improvements. This is an opportunity to make significant contributions to a high-growth product and directly influence the growth and future direction of CareerPlug's software.

What technologies do we use?

Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS

Responsibilities:

Be a key contributor in our process of continual improvement of the systems we work in
Provide thoughtful, kind, and meaningful feedback on pull requests to other team members
Write clean, readable code to implement new features
Collaborate with the team to innovate and fine-tune our current engineering processes to ensure the success of the Engineering team
Participate in group discussions about the patterns and implementations in the code base and how to continue to evolve those over time
Resolve incoming bugs
Write tests to ensure that changes to code properly fulfill business needs

Job Requirements:

The right candidate will have a solid technical background in the fundamentals of web development, with 3 years of experience building and maintaining SaaS products in a production environment, with a strong preference for candidates who have experience building and maintaining large production applications in Ruby on Rails. In addition, the right candidate will possess the following attributes:

Kind and collaborative
Ambitious, self-motivated, and passionate about learning new skills and build great products
Not afraid to ask questions
Excited to be part of a small, highly productive team
Strong sense of autonomy
Dedicated to writing clean, maintainable, human-readable code

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

Remote: As of March 2020, our formerly Austin-based team has been working fully remotely. We have transitioned to a Remote First company forever. This role may be filled by any U.S.-based candidate.

Compensation: This role pays a base salary between $141,000 - $157,000 with an additional $10,000 in bonus potential. Check out our philosophy on pay ranges to get a better idea of how we handle deciding what the offer should be.

Early = $141,000 base salary
Mid = $149,000 base salary
Advanced = $157,000 base salary

CareerPlug is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. CareerPlug is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.

To request a reasonable accommodation, applicants should communicate a request when contacted for an interview. All requests should be sent to accommodations@careerplug.com.

This is a remote position.

Compensation: $141,000.00 - $157,000.00 per year

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, (including family medical history), political affiliation, military service, or any other characteristic protected by law.

To request a reasonable accommodation, applicants should communicate a request when contacted for an interview. All requests should be sent to accommodations@careerplug.com.

Who We Are

CareerPlug's purpose is to empower people to reach their potential. We do that in part by making it easier for our clients to hire and develop the right people. Our proven process allows us to work with over 16,000 growing small businesses. Our applicant tracking and onboarding platforms are designed with user experience in mind: from candidates to hiring managers to leaders.

It Starts With Our People

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 (we even have a Growth & Development Manager as a dedicated employee resource), 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 (our full DEI statement is here). Read more about what our employees have to say on our JobSage page where we were also featured as one of Austin's most transparent companies in 2022.

Remote First

CareerPlug made the decision to be a Remote First company, forever, in the summer of 2020 after working remotely for months because of COVID-19. We know the heart of our business is wherever our employees work--from our space in Austin, to a home office on Lake Michigan, to an outfitted van exploring the American West (true story!). Read our full Remote First Vision.

Anti-Racism Commitment

“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”

—Desmond Tutu

We have a fierce commitment to living out our core values at CareerPlug. It’s what shapes our culture and community, and shows up in a resolve to be inclusive, and therefore, anti-racist.

We know that racism can be intentional or unintentional, but its existence is dehumanizing to everyone it touches. Our promise is to purposefully identify, discuss, and challenge issues of systemic racism and unconscious bias and the impacts they have on our company and our people. We’ve always fostered a culture of communicating openly, but we know we can continue to do better. We will challenge ourselves to understand and correct inequities and create a “best place to work” for every employee.

We choose to participate in this conversation and affirm our identity as an anti-racist company. We hope you will join us.

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