
Senior Software Engineer - Creator Growth and Monetization
Overview
Kit is an email-first operating system for creators who mean business. We help creators grow and monetize their audience with ease.
Job Description
Kit is an email-first operating system for creators who mean business. We help creators grow and monetize their audience with ease. For coaches, YouTubers, authors, podcasters, and other creatives, there isn't a better marketing hub to rely on to grow audiences, automate email marketing, and sell digital products — all within one platform.
Responsibilities
- - Dive into our codebase and learn how our growth and monetization products work.
- - Drive your own ramp-up by learning our product and codebase with the goal of delivering something meaningful to creators by month's end.
- - Own and deliver multiple complex features from concept to launch.
- - Improve our codebase through thoughtful refactoring while maintaining quality standards.
- - Ensure service reliability by participating in on-call rotations.
- - Present at least one Lunch & Learn session.
- - Proactively identify and act on opportunities to improve our product and development processes.
Required Skills
- - Strong experience developing rich, performant web applications using React, JavaScript, and modern CSS frameworks like Tailwind.
- - Proficiency with Ruby on Rails (preferred) or other backend frameworks.
- - Ability to help scope ambitious designs into iterative releases.
- - Proficiency using AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, etc.) to accelerate development and improve code quality.
- - Excellent communication and collaboration skills for driving clarity and alignment across Engineering, Product, and Design.
Benefits
- - Profit Sharing
- - Kit equity
- - 401k with a 5% match
- - Up to $2,100 per month toward medical premiums, with dental and vision premiums fully covered.
- - $2,000 equipment allowance for your first two years, $1,000 budget every following two years.
- - Individual learning + development budget ($3,500/year)
- - Gender affirming benefits
- - Childcare benefit up to $3,000 annually
- - Twenty (20) days of paid time off during each year of employment
- - Paid paid vacation: An after-tax bonus of $1,000 for taking five consecutive days of vacation where you’re fully unplugged from work
- - Ten (10) paid holidays a year
- - Two weeks of paid sick time each year, including mental health + well being days
- - Twelve (12) weeks paid parental leave and flexible scheduling in your child’s first year
- - Up to six weeks of paid bereavement leave, medical leave, and disaster after six months of employment
- - Four-week, paid sabbatical after five years with the team.
About the company
Kit (formerly ConvertKit) is the email-first operating system for creators building a valuable business. Connect your favorite tools through the Kit App Store—from Squarespace to Patreon—and manage your entire creator business all in one place. Our growing ecosystem of apps lets you seamlessly integrate the platforms you already use while discovering powerful new tools to help your business thrive.
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