Company: HeySummit
Website: https://heysummit.com
Headquarters: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
£25-35,000
Full time
HeySummit is hiring a Product Engineer to help us grow the best platform for sharing knowledge with the world. If you consider yourself full-stack, but with a heavy preference for front-end, product design, and are obsessive about user experience, we'd love to connect.
About HeySummit
HeySummit empowers anyone to run amazing virtual summits from anywhere. From selling tickets and organising speakers, to managing talks and outreach, HeySummit is a complete wrap-around system for organisers of online conferences, speaker series, media libraries and summits.
Everyday, people use HeySummit in new ways to spread human knowledge and with a smaller carbon footprint.
About the Role
HeySummit has experienced a significant burst of users which has been great for building our community and mission. While this growth has been positive, one of our biggest goals is to build a fantastic product that delights and makes a difference.
Joining us at this early stage means you have the opportunity to meaningfully shape the product. As an early member of the team, you’ll get to know how the customers use the product, become deeply knowledgeable about the architecture, and write production code for new features as well as improvements. Your opinions carry meaningful weight in our decisions about the direction of the product.
Key Responsibilities
- Improving features to spec in production code in the frontend (currently: JQuery, Bootstrap, Less), backend (Django + PostgresSQL), and architecture (AWS) with a key focus in front-end development and ensuring anything we ship looks and feels great
- Using modern frontend frameworks like React, Vue.js, and Angular to introduce new features and refactor existing ones to modernise and expand the platform
- Working on integrations between HeySummit and the tools our customers love to use
- Liaising with the product and customer happiness team to figure out issues and work on new features and improvements
About You
- You pride yourself on writing clean, easy to read code
- You have experience with Django and React/Vue.js/Angular
- You are diligent about contributing to documentation
- You understand the value that fixing bugs brings to customers
- You feel comfortable interacting with nontechnical stakeholders
- You have experience with CI/CD
- You test your code before every push
- You create automated tests as you build
- You are interested in self-improvement
- You see the value of engaging with the whole team on a daily basis
Who We Are
We are a small team with backgrounds in building businesses that delight customers. With HeySummit, we’re on a mission to be the best way to spread human knowledge.
HeySummit is a business borne out of need, after Ben wanted to run an online conference and couldn’t find something to do the trick. He didn’t have a solution, so decided to build one. After a successful summit and listening to the 50th person begging to know what platform he’d used, the decision to open HeySummit to the world was made.
More than just a summit platform, we strive to make an impact with everything we do.
Where We’re Going
We see HeySummit growing into a highly impactful company, building a beautiful product that empowers users all over the world.
The future, we believe, is distributed, and we’re building a connected team that can work from anywhere. We welcome applications from all over the world.
Following in the footsteps of pioneers like Buffer and Doist, we’re deliberate about the culture we develop. This means fostering a working community of independent thinkers, supporting one another to work our best, and encouraging personal and professional growth.
Working With Us
We believe exceptional work is about adopting a mindset of continuous learning and being comfortable with failure, openness and vulnerability. We practice radical candor, provide a supportive environment and encourage everyone to challenge assumptions. We have a no-blame culture where everyone’s ideas have value.
We’re remote positive. We believe you’re best placed to understand how you work best, and we have resources available to help you work when and where you want. We find that +/- 4 hours from Edinburgh (UK time) works best, however are open to considering other options for exceptional candidates.
We believe communication is vital for exceptional work. We have daily video standups, open calls, and 121s where you meet and build relationships with every member of the team. We have two all-company off-sites per year. These activities help us to build a strong and supportive workplace culture.
How We Hire
First and foremost, we look at the abilities of the candidate and match them against the job description. Following the meeting of that bar, we prioritise diversity of background, expertise, and experience. We respect a willingness to learn and grow, and expect mutual honesty and input.
We believe that diversity is strength and we offer a culture and opportunities to make inclusivity the norm. As a team we are inclusive and encouraging of differences, and flexible in how, when, and where we work. We value a willingness to learn and develop, vulnerability, and radical candor. Applicants are welcome from any background, nationality, culture, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, and religious affiliation.
Next Steps
If you identify with everything on here, we’d love to get to know you. We’re interested in bringing someone on board to join the team as soon as possible. Here’s our process:
- Answer a few questions below in the 'Cover Letter' area - Don’t worry about length and you’re welcome to use bullet points
- If it looks like you match what we’re looking for, we’ll schedule a quick chat between you and a member of the team
- We’ll provide you with a short exercise to test ability to research a solution to a problem
We want to respect your time, and will do all we can to make this process as quick as possible and provide you with actionable feedback.
Please cover as many of these questions in the 'cover-letter' area as you feel comfortable (bullet points are fine):
- What’s your location (timezone)?
- What date are you available from?
- Any links to your linkedin, CV, portfolio, etc, github, or any information about your background that you’d like to share with us?
- What are the biggest challenges working remotely? How do you overcome them?
- What is your preferred way of working with a team? Slack, Video Calls, Standups, Fully Asynchronous, etc
- Think about a time you worked directly with a non-technical stakeholder. What went well and what didn't go well with the interaction? What would you have changed or done differently?
- What are the most important aspects when working on a small, distributed team?
- Speak about a time when you took ownership of a process. What went well, what didn’t?
- What’s an example of a previous role you loved and why?
- Aside from development, do you have any other business or customer related interests? If so, what are they?
- Why does working with HeySummit interest you?
- Anything fun you’d like us to know about you?
- Any other information, comments, or questions?
Source: We Work Remotely
