Benable is an early stage mission-driven startup that is looking to grow its founding team. We’re based in the D.C. metro area, but have a remote-first culture at this stage. Our founder was previously a founding team member of a San Francisco startup, which raised $60M in venture capital, grew to 300 employees, and brought in $250M+ in yearly revenue.
At Benable, we have spent the past months honing the product and growing users, and recently closed our second significant round of funding. We are now looking to grow our engineering team. This is a unique opportunity to join an early stage startup as a founding team member, and to help build both a valuable company and a platform that will help improve people’s lives.
COMPANY OVERVIEW
Benable is a registered Public Benefit Corporation, which means that we are a for-profit company, but also have an obligation to drive positive social impact. Our focus is on strengthening the social fabric by making it easier for people to help one another.
Benable is a platform that makes it easy to find and share trusted recommendations with your friends and community. Whatever it is you’re looking for – child care, recommended products, a place to stay, etc. – Benable makes it easy to get help from the people you trust.
THE ROLE
You will work closely with Benable’s Lead Developer and the rest of our small team. You will own large parts of the code across the stack, working on a broad range of projects with a mix of frontend and backend development.
CURRENT TECH STACK
- Ruby, Javascript
- Ruby on Rails (Backend), Svelte (Frontend)
- Postgresql, Redis, ElasticSearch
- GitHub, Heroku, Rollbar, LogDNA
WHO YOU ARE
You’re the right person for this job if you have 5+ years of relevant experience and:
- You’re excited about joining a startup at such an early stage.
We’ve launched a product, raised funding, and started growing the userbase, but it doesn’t get much earlier than this. The pace of this early stage isn't for everyone. New startups are all about moving at breakneck speed, iterating continuously based on user feedback, working through ambiguity and changing priorities, and figuring things out as we go. If those things excite you, you’re going to love this role.
- You’re an advanced developer, with solid frontend and backend experience.
You’ve got real frontend experience (doesn’t have to be Svelte, React is very similar, Angular okay too, etc.). You’ll also be working on all parts of the stack, so you need to have experience with Ruby on Rails and backend work. And you’ve got to be great at building things in a flexible, iterative way. Prior startup experience is a huge plus.
- You love creating great user experiences.
For Benable to be successful, we have to create a magical user experience. You’ve got to be the type of person who has good product intuition, and enjoys thinking about the end user and how to build something users will enjoy and love.
- You’re a great person and people like being around you.
We’re going to be living and breathing this startup, so it’s critical that we love spending time with each other. We have a happy, high-productivity, low-stress, no ego, fun culture. At this stage, every hire has a huge impact on company culture, so you’ve got to be an all-around great person and teammate - someone that people love to be around.
WHAT WE’RE OFFERING
- Great Salary
- Great Equity Package
- Full Health Benefits
- Flexible, remote work environment, with the option to join teammates in-person if desired and when circumstances allow
- Incredible opportunity for personal and professional growth
- And you’re going to love your job - helping build up what may become one of the world’s most important communities