Platform Engineer (CI)

Engineering

Location: North America, South America

Engineering at Aha!

Aha! is the world's #1 product development software. We help more than 1 million product builders go from discovery to delivery and bring their strategy to life. Our suite of tools includes Aha! Roadmaps, Aha! Discovery, Aha! Ideas, Aha! Whiteboards, Aha! Knowledge, Aha! Teamwork, and Aha! Develop. Product teams rely on our expertise, guided templates, and training programs via Aha! Academy to be their best. We are proud to be a very different type of high-growth SaaS company. The business is self-funded, profitable, and 100% remote. We are recognized as one of the best fully remote companies to work for, champion the Bootstrap Movement, and have given over $1M to people in need through Aha! Cares. Learn more at www.aha.io.

Our team

Aha! engineering is a midsized, fully remote team that is highly productive. We are centered around North American time zones so we can collaborate during the workday.

We move quickly: We ship code multiple times a day. We believe in getting new features in front of customers and iteratively improving as we learn what works and what does not.
We collaborate: We each bring unique experiences and skills to the table. Working together to share that knowledge benefits the entire team and helps us produce the best results for our customers.
We value product over process: We want the team to have the time and focus to solve complex challenges. We aim to minimize the overhead introduced by heavyweight processes and excessive meetings.
We enjoy: We like what we do. And we want you to love your job too. Learn more about The Responsive Method, our company values, and the generous benefits we offer.

Our technology

Our web application is a single-instance, multitenant Ruby on Rails monolith supported by Postgres (database), Redis (background jobs), Memcached (Rails caching), and Kafka. We also run a Node.js webserver to support collaborative editing and real-time updates. Our application is hosted on Amazon Web Services and architected with ECS for reproducibility and scalability. We use GitHub Actions on self-hosted runners for fast, thorough continuous integration testing. We embrace new technologies that help us deliver a lovable product, but we also remain cognizant of the maintenance overhead a new library or platform brings. We solve the problems in front of us rather than prematurely optimizing to address issues that may never materialize. That said, some of the largest companies in the world store a large amount of their precious strategic data in Aha! — so we do plenty of optimizing too. We do most of our planning and collaboration in Aha! Roadmaps and built Aha! Develop so that software engineers and their teams could take advantage of those same rich features. We use Slack and Zoom for video calls. (Email? Rarely.)

Your experience

We believe that being a kind person who elevates the rest of the team is just as valuable as writing great code. You have strong problem-solving skills and experience working on important functionality for a cloud-based product. You are humble, eager to learn, and always willing to help others learn as well. You want to work with people who enjoy picking up a problem and solving it, regardless of the technologies and techniques involved. You have worked at meaningful scale before and want to do so again. You also have the below experience and skills:

Two+ years working in Ruby on Rails as well as a Rails codebase
Managing AWS infrastructure using terraform
Using containerization and build systems
Producing fast, efficient, and reliable services
Running a CI pipeline for a sizable team

Your work at Aha!

Platform engineers at Aha! support the rest of the engineering team by developing abstractions, frameworks, and tools which help other Aha! engineers build the product. This includes:

Building developer tooling such as CI pipelines, local and staging environments, and helpful CLI tools
Building monitoring and observability pipelines to ensure we provide highly reliable service
Building infrastructure services that Aha! product developers can use
Listening to product developers' pain points and capturing ideas for a more pleasant development experience
Contributing to the success of the team via code reviews and collaboration

If the Platform Engineer (CI) role sounds appealing, we would love to hear from you. (A real human reviews every application.)

Grow with us

Everyone deserves to reach their fullest potential. We know that when we do work that matters with people we care about in a high-growth environment, we feel engaged and alive. It is why we joined Aha! and how we achieve our very best. We offer all the benefits you would expect and more, including profit sharing. The specific benefits listed below are reflective of what we offer U.S.-based hires. We also do our best to extend identical benefits to international teammates.

The base salary range for this role in the U.S. is between $100000 and $160000
Cash-based compensation also includes profit sharing, and we contribute a percentage of your total pay each month toward your retirement
Medical dental vision plans (for many teammates we cover 100% of premiums)
Up to 200 hours paid time off per year
30–90 days paid parental leave; five–10 days paid care/bereavement leave
Up to $1000 annually for third-party education plus paid time off for learning
Volunteer opportunities throughout year

Base salary & total compensation depend on skills experience relevant past roles.

LI-REMOTE

We are building distributed team; you can work anywhere in North or South America. Generous salary equity benefits profit-sharing program. [See other openings at Aha!](https://www.aha.io/careers) Important: no AI tools during interviews without prior approval. Please let us know if you have questions.

Diversity

Committed hiring promoting compensating employees based on qualifications demonstrated ability perform responsibilities. Equal opportunity employer welcomes all employees applicants regardless age race color national origin physical mental disability gender religion sexual orientation gender identity marital veteran status pregnancy legally protected characteristic. [Learn more about diversity inclusion at Aha!](https://www.aha.io/diversity-inclusion)