Engineer - Remote

Overview

Wistia is looking for a talented engineer to join us! The Discover team builds and maintains product features that are central to our entire platform. Specifically, our powerful content search capabilities, content library interface, filtering, metadata, and account management tools. For example, here are some highlights of solutions this team delivered for customers:

In Short

• A lightning-fast search tool based on Algolia for all of your content.
• Robust filtering throughout our content library tools.
• Improvements to Wistia’s file metadata and folder structures.
• Team Accounts: full support for different workspaces within a Wistia account as a company expands its usage.

Requirements

• You have expertise in a language and framework that powers web applications (ideally Ruby on Rails).
• You’ve built products with React and feel comfortable working in a large frontend application.
• You have experience with various background processing and queuing systems (e.g. Sidekiq, NSQ).
• You collaborate well and build strong partnerships with your product and design teammates. You’re also a great communicator and can easily apply your skills in different settings (e.g. meetings, demos, code reviews, documentation).
• You know how to ship iteratively and help manage releases. You’re a natural in the relevant areas of feature flagging, CI/CD pipelines, test automation, observability, alerting, etc.
• You are comfortable participating in on-call rotations and incident response processes.

Benefits

• A competitive compensation package that includes internal equity stock options
• 401k with 3% company contribution, regardless of whether you contribute (Roth 401k available)
• Fully paid healthcare, dental, and vision insurance (family plans included)
• Pre-Tax FSA and Dependent Care Account
• Flexible working hours – work at the times when you operate best, or set aside time for child and/or elderly care responsibilities during traditional “office hours”
• 16 weeks paid parental leave for all new and expecting parents
• Flexible PTO (pretty common for people to take 4+ weeks off throughout the year)
• Remote-first culture (work from anywhere in the U.S.)
• Annual professional development stipend (courses, conferences, and more)
• New hire bonus to enhance your home office set up
• Pet insurance discount