Software Engineer II

Hi, I’m Nathan, cofounder at Together Software. Learning at work is broken, especially at large or remote companies where employees don’t sit side by side anymore. Our product matches employees with other colleagues they would have never otherwise met before, for learning, mentorship and networking. Think of it as a peer-to-peer knowledge exchange. Organizations like the United Nations, Airbnb, Disney and 7-11 use us to run mentoring programs to up-skill their employees.

We launched through Y Combinator in Summer 2019, and are now a team of 35 people. We are now part of Absorb LMS as a subsidiary. Our mission is to help everyone find peers, mentors and experts to learn from. Let’s build the next ubiquitous software product together.

Together Software, now part of Absorb Software, is a leading mentorship platform that helps organizations build meaningful employee development programs. With this exciting growth, we’re hiring a Software Engineer II to join our team!

What you'll be doing

• Acquisition: Helping us acquire more users and customers by creating growth features like free trials, invites, and more.
• Activation: Improving onboarding and how easy it is to find the perfect mentor (indexing profiles better) or start as an enterprise customer.
• Retention: Maximizing the amount a user learns from other colleagues, such as through meeting agendas, building a user’s expertise in a topic, etc.
• As well as good-old-fashioned engineering work like:
• New integrations and infrastructure management (Identity, Human Resource Info Systems and Task queues).
• End to end reliability engineering.
• Reporting and reporting data pipelines.

What you'll bring to the table

• Attitude: The customers’ experience trumps everything else. When we need to test new value quickly, Together finds the fastest way of delivering functionality to customers. When we want something to be built to last, we debate heavily about whether something is good enough to be released.
• Speed: Ability to move quickly.
• Opinions: Have a lot of opinions on how to make things better, and are comfortable with debate.
• Selflessness: Put the team’s interest in front of your own.
• Standards: Want to work with the best.
• Ownership: Are ready for a high ownership, high expectation role. We are looking for candidates who are truly compatible with startup culture.
• You have worked with a product manager, designer and other engineers.
• Bonus: You have experience with testing practices.
• Bonus: You have experience with productivity improvements, e.g. infrastructure or CI/CD improvements that improve developer productivity.
• Bonus: You have seen architectures that support reliability, e.g. job queues.

Technical Qualifications

• 2-5 years experience in paid, non-freelance Web development.
• Experience with single page web applications (React).
• Ability to build web back-ends with Node.js or Python.
• Experience with CI/CD (Kubernetes config, Docker build).
• You have previously worked with NoSQL databases.
• Your colleagues would highly recommend you.

Are you ready to become an Absorber?

What we offer:

• Fully remote-first work with flexible work arrangements.
• Comprehensive Health and Wellness Benefits including retirement savings programs, eligibility for two different bonus plans, generous time off, comprehensive medical and dental benefits based on your country of location.
• New Hire Equipment Allowance and monthly Flex Allowance to support your success.
• Endless opportunity for career growth and internal mobility.
• Employee driven DE&I programs.
• Games room, meditation & yoga space, state of the art workplace for Absorbers in our Calgary office.

Who are we?

Absorb Software is a remote-first company that provides online training solutions to leading organizations around the world. Absorb is a cloud-based learning management system (LMS) engineered to inspire learning and fuel business productivity. Our online learning platform combines forward-thinking technology built to scale as our customer’s organizations grow. We empower learners to enrich their lives, workplaces and communities.

Our values are simple:

• We achieve exceptional results by genuinely caring about each other and the work we do.
• We’re united, and we grow through our commitment to elevating continual learning!

Absorb is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment for all our people. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications. In the event a current Absorb employee would like to apply for this role they will inform their supervisor prior to submitting their application. Successful candidates for this position will be subject to pre-employment background screening, including a criminal record check and must be able to show proof of legal eligibility to work in the country they have applied to without sponsorship.

Should you require any accommodation during the recruitment process, please indicate this on your application and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs. For any questions, please contact us at accessiblecareers@absorblms.com