Full Stack Engineer (Rails + React)

Great Question is hiring Full Stack Rails Engineers to join us on our mission to democratize user research and help customer centric companies talk to more customers.

We are an enterprise grade, all in one research CRM - with the tools you need to run and analyze customer interviews, surveys, and prototype tests with either your own customers or external candidates.

With a place for all your research results, we offer ways to create, store and share interesting insights from your data. We are actively building interesting AI use-cases in this area - automatically analysing and synthesis your data with LLMs.

A well-funded seed-stage startup, backed by Y Combinator and Funders Club, we're looking for an experienced Rails and React engineers to join our high performing, fully remote team.

This is an huge opportunity to get in early, work on interesting problems, have a huge impact on the technology and culture of an early stage company, and shape the future of how teams build software through research.

To get a sense of what we’re building, check out our 2023 in review

This is a remote role open to anyone able to work within American timezones, NZ or Australia.

The opportunity

As a member of our engineering team, you'll be crucial asset in our journey.

• Ship interesting features directly to end users frequently with just the right amount of bureaucracy. (We deploy several times a day, main goes to production)
• High amounts of autonomy, ownership and impact.
• Drive key technology and architectural designs across the entire platform and product.
• Grow with the company - with plenty of opportunity to dive deep technically or move into management. Be intimately involved in business and product decisions.
• Learn from experienced startup founders (10 years experience, 2 previous exits)

About you

• Bias for action. The right technical decisions are important but what's more important to delivering customer value-
• Customer centric. You care about building the right thing and are willing to connect with real users to validate your assumptions.
• High conviction. When you're in, you're all in. You take pride in work and are passionate about delivering your best work
• 3+ years professional experience building and maintaining complex web applications.
• Experience with Rails, React, Typescript.
• Bonus points for enterprise SaaS experience, video processing and streaming, Y.JS/Tiptap, LLMs.

Apply for the job

Do you want to join our team and help us build our vision? We'd love to hear from you!

https://careers.greatquestion.co/fullstack-engineer/en?

We have a fairly quick interview process.

1. Meet w/ our co-founder CTO

• Share what you're looking for in your next role
• Understand some of the challenges / opportunities at Great Question
• See if it's a shared fit, and move to technical review

2. Technical interview

• 90 minute pair programming session writing some basic code
• Goal is to understand your skillset with rails/react and thought processes in writing quality code

3. Cultural interview

• 2x 60 minute interviews
• One with another member of the engineering team so you can understand what it's like to work here
• One with someone non-technical (typically designer) to discuss collaboration outside of engineering

4. Offer