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\nBRISBANE, AUSTRALIA OR REMOTE\nGROWTH | FULL-TIME\n\nThe Opportunity\n\nShorthand is a growing company that provides a digital publishing platform to many of the world's best-known publishers, brands, not-for-profits, and universities. With customers on every continent (except Antarctica!), there's never been a more exciting time to join Shorthand. Our company has a rare distinction in this era of money-burning startups of being comfortably profitable. We're a small team of geeks with art and heart, and a high bar for quality.\n\nWe're introducing a new role for a Senior Software Engineer (Growth). The role will be perfect for an experienced full stack software engineer who has an analytical bent and enjoys working on business, UX, and optimisation problems with a data-driven experimental approach.\n\nThe successful candidate will contribute to Shorthand's Growth function, taking the lead on implementing growth experiments and testing new onboarding flows for our SaaS platform. The objectives of the growth experiments will be to improve the product onboarding experience, website design, and human onboarding touchpoints for maximum user satisfaction and retention.\n\nThe role involves a high degree of autonomy and creativity, and will suit somebody who is passionate about learning, metrics, and delivering outstanding user experiences. \n\nGrowth at Shorthand is a new function that offers exciting opportunities for affecting change to the core product and its user base, as well as significant opportunities to bring together disparate tools, data and teams across the company. The role will be especially rewarding to candidates who are interested in acquiring broad knowledge on how to successfully grow a product's user base and scale an early-to-mid stage SaaS business.\n\nThe Role\n\nWe tend to do things a little differently at Shorthand. For one thing, we're a small, fully remote team distributed around the world --- and have been fully remote for over three years. You'll be working from home, or from a coworking location of your choice. You'll be based somewhere in South-East Queensland or a compatible timezone.\n\nAs Senior Software Engineer (Growth), you'll play a critical role in formulating and executing agile yet rigorous growth experiments aimed at improving the onboarding and retention of satisfied users. You'll work closely with the other members of the Growth team to identify and test key hypotheses. You'll help put in place the software frameworks and tool integrations needed to:\n\n- carry out split testing and other experiments,\n- collect product and marketing analytics, and\n- support customer-facing teams with better workflows for sales and marketing activities, onboarding new users and identifying at-risk accounts.\n\nYou'll work cross-functionally with colleagues across the Growth, Product, Engineering, Success, Marketing, and Sales teams, reporting to the VP Growth.\n\nWe are looking for someone who:\n\n- Is whip-smart, as demonstrated by career achievements and/or school/university results.\n- Is data-driven and analytical.\n- Is experienced at implementing product and/or marketing analytics infrastructure, and using analytics platforms to derive, report on, and action key insights.\n- Is an SQL wizard, able to bridge the gaps between databases, spreadsheets, and third-party applications.\n- Is experienced in system design and system integration.\n- Has a wide range of experience and expertise across languages, frameworks and approaches such as JavaScript, TypeScript, ReactJS, NodeJS, and scripting.\n- Is an expert in using git.\n- Has a high bar for quality, but is not afraid to move quickly when warranted.\n- Is thorough and detail-oriented.\n- Can learn fast.\n- Gains deep satisfaction from helping to make products and processes better.\n- Has experience of working in a small business or startup environment.\n- Preferably has experience collaborating with diverse, geographically-dispersed teams.\n\nCore Responsibilities:\n\nYou'll be responsible for:\n\n- Helping to formulate growth hypotheses and design growth experiments, alongside the VP Growth and Growth UX Lead;\n- Taking the lead on implementing new product flows and features to support exploratory research and in-production product improvements to help make our users more successful;\n- Identifying and integrating appropriate toolsets and platforms to assist with:\n - executing experiments within Shorthand's marketing site and storytelling platform;\n - analysing key data and automating reporting;\n - supporting customer success functions --- for example, through reporting of account health and onboarding milestones;\n - improving marketing automation flows such as user onboarding journeys and email sequences; and\n - improving data flows between disparate systems such as billing, CRM, user onboarding, customer success, analytics and other systems.\n\nQualifications:\n\n- A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering roles.\n- A minimum of 3 years of experience in web application development.\n- Prior experience with analytics platforms such as Google Analytics, Mixpanel, or Amplitude. Bonus points for experience with customer data platforms such as Segment.\n- Prior experience working alongside key stakeholders to model required data and instrument websites and apps for conversion and funnel analytics.\n- Prior experience with query languages, analytics and reporting platforms such as SQL, Python/Pandas, R, Google Data Studio and Tableau.\n- University qualification in computer science, mathematics or a closely related field, or equivalent career experience.\n\nPersonality Attributes:\n\n- You are a proactive self-starter who does not need to be told what to do and will be resourceful in order to find solutions to any challenge.\n- You thrive in a fast-paced and demanding environment and possess a high level of intellectual curiosity.\n- You are collaborative.\n- You find fulfilment in the job itself, and happiness in a job well done. \n\nPlease mention the words **WOMAN ESTATE COCONUT** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi42MQ==). 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\nImagine working on a global communication network that’s used by 3.7 billion people and every day more than a quarter trillion messages cross this network. There’s just one problem: Because authentication isn’t built into this platform, nobody can be certain who is sending most of these messages. This gap means that companies are vulnerable to a whole host of attacks on their employees, partners, and customers. Whether it’s wire fraud, W-2 thefts, or “fake news” in an attempt to destroy a brand, companies have been powerless to protect themselves against these impersonation attacks.\n\nValimail solves this problem. We’ve built a revolutionary platform on top of open standards — DMARC, DKIM, and SPF — that for the first time makes it possible for any organization to protect itself against email impersonation. Valimail pioneered the notion of automated email authentication, with innovative components like our DNS-based Authenticator (including our patented Instant SPF). Our system enables organizations to authenticate their email quickly, easily, and reliably.\n\nWe’re committed to building a more trusted email ecosystem by being a leader in Email Authentication as a Service. As part of that commitment, we’re active participants in the open source and standards communities. We’re co-authors of open standards like ARC and BIMI, and contribute to a variety of open source projects that serve the wider community.\n\nAs Valimail’s Lead Ruby on Rails Engineer, you’ll be a major contributor to the company’s success. You’ll share in the design, development, and deployment of major pieces of the Valimail system. Your technical contributions will help protect dozens of brands, authenticate hundreds of millions of emails every day, and protect people all over the world from fraud.\n\nIf you like the idea of working on planetary-scale messaging systems with some of the latest tools and making a difference in the lives of half the world’s population, we’d love to talk to you.\n\nWhat You'll be Doing\n\n\n* Design, document, build, and maintain performant APIs in Ruby on Rails that underpin our products and are consumed by 3rd party developers\n\n* Nurture a high performance small team by helping our developers through pairing and code reviews, and sometimes holding learning sessions in the team\n\n* Give and receive constructive feedbacks\n\n* Work with UX designers and frontend engineers, so we can provide them with excellent foundations for them to build world-class products\n\n* Make technical judgement calls to balance time we invest and values we intend to bring to the world, while keeping our code base sustainable, and reduce surprises\n\n* Constantly improve our development practices\n\n\n\n\nAbout You\n\n\n* Extensive experience working with gems in the Ruby/Rails ecosystem (e.g. Devise, Pundit, etc.).  \n\n* A dedication to automated testing, push-button deployment, and configuration management through IT automation.\n\n* Experience building large-scale production web applications with API interfaces.\n\n* A willingness to jump in and experiment with new technologies, and to get out of your comfort zone.\n\n* Have created a web application from scratch for a production use and maintained it\n\n* Have gone through performance challenges of a production RoR web application (e.g. stress testing and performance tuning)\n\n* Have implemented something in Ruby outside RoR framework and popular Ruby libraries (e.g. a Ruby gem, a DSL)\n\n* Have good understandings of multiple kinds of tests, and use some of them in your daily development activities\n\n* Have experiences with asynchronous jobs and/or data pipelines\n\n* Have contributed to open source communities\n\n* Have understanding why RoR is designed in the current way, and how it has influenced other web frameworks\n\n* Have understanding of what makes RoR possible\n\n* Have knowledge of other web application frameworks\n\n* Have good understanding of various project management methodologies, and when to use them\n\n* Care about your craft that brings values to users, and understand why before working on a project\n\n* Have influenced other developers through PR reviews and pair-programming\n\n* Have given talks at meetups/conferences and/or written articles/books in tech\n\n* Critically examine your thinking and ideas on a regular basis, and you are open to constructive criticism\n\n* You try to articulate your points in discussions and in your code\n\n* Can work with and help product managers to maximize the values we deliver as a unit\n\n* Have a desire to own a product or a service\n\n\n\n\nBonus Points\n\n\n* Have sunset a web application in production\n\n* Have designed and documented APIs that are consumed by multiple users excluding yourself\n\n* Have played a technical lead role of a team and pushed the bar of the team continuously and collaboratively\n\n* Specific experience with real-world DNS and/or email authentication standards is a plus.\n\n* Have a genuine interest in for the mission of enhancing our zero-trust approach to email sender identity.\n\n* Ability to work effectively at all levels of the stack rails, Ruby, Javascript ES6 and/or React.\n\n* Experience building, provisioning, and deploying services in the cloud in an automated fashion.\n\n\n\n\nValimail is hiring for this role remotely in the United States only\n\nValimail is the trusted leader in fully automated email authentication, with the only comprehensive platform for anti-impersonation, brand protection, and compliance used by corporations and federal agencies such as Uber, Fannie Mae, WeWork, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Valimail Enforce is the only FedRAMP-authorized email authentication service and, because it uses no personally identifiable information (PII), it is also GDPR compliant. Valimail authenticates billions of messages a month for some of the world's biggest companies, in finance, government, transportation, health care, manufacturing, media, technology, and more. Valimail is based in San Francisco with our 2nd office being in Denver, CO. For more information visit www.Valimail.com. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Ruby, Engineer, Full Stack, Executive, JavaScript, Cloud and API jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n