Job Specifications
Aha! is the world's #1 product development software. We help more than 1 million product builders to bring their strategy to life. Our integrated tools empower teams to go from discovery to delivery. The suite includes Aha! Roadmaps, Aha! Discovery, Aha! Ideas, Aha! Whiteboards, Aha! Builder, Aha! Develop, Aha! Teamwork, and Aha! Knowledge. Product teams rely on our expertise, AI assistant, and training programs via Aha! Academy to do their best work. 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 $1.5M 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 help each other grow: We each bring unique skills to the table and want our teammates to feel valued from the start. Our onboarding program exposes new hires to the codebase and lets them contribute right away.
We move quickly: We ship code multiple times a day. We believe in getting valuable features in front of customers and iteratively improving as we learn what works and what does not.
We value product over process: We want the team to have time to focus on solving complex challenges. We minimize overhead by setting clear goals and avoiding heavyweight processes and excessive meetings.
We share knowledge freely: We share our learnings with each other and with the developer community. Our engineering blog demonstrates how we tackle interesting challenges at Aha!
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), Kafka (event processing), and Memcached (Rails caching). 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 utilize a growing amount of React on the front end to build rich client-side experiences, including our fully collaborative text editor, whiteboards, and presentations. We balance the strengths of both technologies: Rails for its conventions and simplicity, and React for more powerful interactive functionality.
We also leverage AI and LLMs both to enhance our engineering workflow — accelerating development and supporting our team — and to power innovative features within Aha! itself. This includes tools like the Aha! AI assistant and advanced data analysis and content generation capabilities that deliver even greater value to our users.
We embrace new technologies that help us deliver a lovable product, but we also remain cognizant of the maintenance overhead that a new library or platform brings. We solve the problems in front of us rather than prematurely optimizing to address issues that might never materialize.
We do most of our planning and collaboration in Aha! Roadmaps and built Aha! Develop so 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
Most of our features involve writing significant Ruby on Rails code, so you should have experience working in a Rails codebase. We also write a lot of React (but we are happy to help you learn that part on the job).
Skills
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. You want teammates who enjoy solving problems, regardless of the technologies and techniques involved. You have worked at meaningful scale before and want to do so again. You also have the following experience and skills:
Four+ years of experience working in Ruby on Rails
Builder of scalable, efficient, and maintainable architectures
Experience developing features at a high-growth SaaS company
Active collaborator with product teams
Your work at Aha!
We Work On a Broad Range Of Features Across The Full Stack. As The Sr. Ruby On Rails Engineer, Your Work Will Include
Implementing new features for our users, touching each layer of the MVC as needed
Building deeply interactive reporting interfaces using React
Working proactively with product and UX to refine and iterate on specifications as the feature takes shape
Investigating slow performance and optimizing queries to ensure Aha! is snappy and satisfying to use
Interfacing directly with users to quickly squash bugs as
About the Company
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...
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