
Senior Software Engineer II – Growth
Kit (formerly ConvertKit)
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Anywhere in the World
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Salary
💰 $186,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Get oriented in our onboarding curriculum in Notion and get access to key tools — Linear, Figma, Slack, Looker, Omni and our experimentation infrastructure. Start meeting your teammates and cross-functional partners through GTKYs. Get a feel for our codebase, our current funnel metrics, and where the biggest opportunities live.
- Dig into the data and current growth opportunities. Understand where creators are dropping off and why, and you have a clear point of view on what's driving disengagement and where the highest-leverage retention opportunities are. Start contributing to active experiments or funnel improvements while you build context. Ship your first changes, to get a real feel for how we move and contribute to our growth strategy.
- Own the end-to-end execution of multiple growth initiatives across the funnel. You're not waiting for a spec, you're helping identify the highest-leverage bets, scoping them with the team, building them, measuring the outcome, and sharing what you learned. You've shipped experiments and owned complex projects that moved meaningful metrics and can speak clearly to what worked and what didn't.
- You've established the technical patterns and measurement practices the growth team relies on. You’re a leader on the Growth squad and a strong, trusted partner to Product. You have a clear point of view on what the funnel needs, and you're coaching others toward more analytical, outcome-driven ways of working. You're a core reason the team ships with both speed and confidence.
Requirements
- Software engineering experience on product-led initiatives at a SaaS company
- Worked on a product where the customer relationship involves recurring revenue, trials, or conversion milestones
- Led experiments end-to-end, and can speak to what you learned, including the ones that didn't work and why
- Shipped improvements across more than one part of the funnel, not just the part that was assigned to you
- Worked on a remote-first or distributed team with minimal process overhead
- Full-stack engineering. Our stack is primarily Ruby on Rails and React, and you are ideally comfortable with both.
- Product judgment. You think about the experience, not just the implementation. You have opinions about what's worth building and collaborate with product and design.
- Data-informed decision-making. You're comfortable in SQL, know your way around analytics tooling like Omni and Mixpanel, and can connect product metrics to business outcomes.
- Funnel thinking. You understand acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization as a system, not a checklist. You can identify where the real leverage is, and where it isn't.
- Building reusable infrastructure. You think beyond the immediate experiment. When you build something, you consider whether it can accelerate the next thing too.
- You think like a product person. You bring your own point of view on what the funnel needs, what the experiment should test, and whether the proposed solution is actually the right one.
- You have high agency and ability to work independently while collaborating closely with teammates.
- You work in public to share progress, post results (even disappointing ones), and document decisions clearly enough that others can build on your work.
- You're analytical. You want to measure what you ship, but you also know when enough data exists to make a call and when over-indexing on analysis is just delay with extra steps.
- You believe that creator success is our success, always thinking about what it means for a creator to get value from Kit through growth and monetization.
- You're comfortable in early-stage team conditions. The growth team is new and the playbook isn't written yet. You're energized by that, not unsettled by it.
- You have a strong interest in AI and an eagerness to experiment to make our work more efficient and effective.
Benefits
- Profit Sharing
- Kit equity
- 401k with a 5% match
- We cover up to $2,100 per month toward medical premiums, with dental and vision premiums fully covered. We offer Health Insurance plans through Aetna
- $2,000 equipment allowance for your first two years, $1,000 budget every following two years. Company-provided laptops are issued to every Kit team member and are not included in the equipment budget
- 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, two weeks of each paid leave in your first six months
- Winter Break Closure: Kit closes for a week at the end of December, giving everyone a collective break to enjoy the holiday season. Essential support services remain available, with teams coordinating to ensure coverage during this period
- Four-week, paid sabbatical after five years with the team
- Fantastic in-person or virtual retreats with the team twice a year
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
full-stack engineeringRuby on RailsReactSQLanalytics toolingdata-informed decision-makingfunnel thinkingbuilding reusable infrastructureexperimentationproduct judgment
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationanalytical thinkinghigh agencyindependencecommunicationcoachingadaptabilityoutcome-driven mindsetpublic accountability