Tell Me More ↓We’re looking for a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to help shape the future of Smalls’ digital platform. In this role you’ll work across our Rails and React stack to design build and ship high-impact features while raising the bar for engineering quality and scalability. You’ll collaborate closely with product design and operations to solve complex business challenges mentor teammates and help us deliver seamless delightful experiences for cat parents everywhere.
**What You'll Do:**
- Design build and ship features across our stack (Rails + React) with a focus on performance reliability and scalability.
- Own complex projects end-to-end—from architecture to deployment—while contributing clean testable maintainable code.
- Collaborate closely with product design and other teams to translate business problems into thoughtful technical solutions.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to other engineers raising the bar for code quality and engineering practices.
- Participate in code reviews architecture discussions and technical planning to ensure high standards across the team.
- Identify opportunities to improve and refactor the codebase helping us scale sustainably.
- Troubleshoot and resolve system issues with urgency always keeping the customer experience in mind.
- Contribute to building a strong engineering culture rooted in collaboration learning and delivering customer value.
### **What we'll love about you:**
- 6+ years of software engineering experience with proven full stack expertise.
- Strong proficiency with Ruby on Rails and React (or similar frameworks).
- Experience designing and working with APIs and relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred).
- Familiarity with infrastructure and tools like Docker Redis Heroku Sidekiq and background job processing.
- Solid understanding of software design principles and ability to balance technical trade-offs.
- Comfortable leading by example—mentoring peers influencing technical direction and driving projects to completion.
- Strong collaborator who thrives in cross-functional environments.
- Curious adaptable and eager to contribute beyond code helping shape how a growing engineering team operates.
- Huge plus: experience in DTC or subscription-based businesses.
- Huge plus: familiarity with TypeScript Node.js or Shopify ecosystems.
- Huge plus: experience with React React router (SSR) Ruby on Rails and tools like Heroku Postgres Shopify Stripe Contentful
- Huge plus: interest in scaling engineering processes and best practices.
### **What you’ll love about us:**
- **Mission-Driven Company:** We love cats and we're here to make nine lives ten.
- **People-Driven Company:** We treat our people like people; we're committed to Smalls and we work hard but also respect everyone’s lives outside of work.
- **Data-Driven Culture:** We love using data to guide decision-making where appropriate but we also know when to move quickly and go with our gut.
- **Competitive Salary:** Make some $$$.
- **Very Competitive Benefits:** Fully paid Health Vision and Dental insurance. 4-day work week. Unlimited PTO.
- **Fully Remote Office & Culture:** Our team is spread across the US day to day but we travel for department & company off-sites and retreats.
- **Free Product:** Free cat food every month.
Compensation Range: $170K - $190K... Click to read more.
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Tell Me More ↓Smalls are looking for an Engineering Manager who is equally passionate about leading people and building great software. In this role you’ll be both a mentor and a maker—helping your team grow shaping the culture of engineering and directly contributing to the architecture and code that power our systems.
**What You'll Do:**
- Lead mentor hire and grow a small team of software engineers fostering a culture of ownership growth and learning.
- Partner with product and design to align engineering priorities with business goals.
- Define and evolve a technical roadmap with the ability to articulate why to the business.
- Evaluate our current architecture system design tools and influence the set-up for the next stage of growth for the organization.
- Ensure reliability scalability and performance monitoring.
- Contribute directly to the codebase (~60% of your time) setting the standard for quality and craftsmanship.
- Establish team rituals - reviews refinement incident management on-call duty retros—that make us stronger and faster together.
### **What we'll love about you:**
- 2+ years of engineering leadership management experience.
- Prior experience working as a Sr. Engineer Staff engineer with deep technical expertise and architectural experience.
- A player-coach: skilled at balancing IC work with leadership responsibilities.
- Experienced in building strong engineering cultures and improving teams.
- Strong communicator who can bridge technical and business discussions.
- Pragmatic and product-driven—you know when to move fast and when to build for the long term.
- Huge plus: experience working on DTC and subscription services.
- Huge plus: experience with React React router (SSR) and Ruby on Rails.
- Huge plus: experience with tools like Heroku Postgres Shopify Stripe and Contentful.
### **What you’ll love about us:**
- **Mission-Driven Company:** We love cats and we're here to make nine lives ten.
- **People-Driven Company:** We treat our people like people; we're committed to Smalls and we work hard but also respect everyone’s lives outside of work.
- **Data-Driven Culture:** We love using data to guide decision-making where appropriate but we also know when to move quickly and go with our gut.
- **Competitive Salary:** Make some $$$.
- **Very Competitive Benefits:** Fully paid Health Vision and Dental insurance. 4-day work week. Unlimited PTO.
- **Fully Remote Office & Culture:** Our team is spread across the US day to day but we travel for department & company off-sites and retreats.
- **Free Product:** Free cat food every month.
Compensation Range: $180K - $200K... Click to read more.
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