Senior Software Engineer, G2

Ruby on Rails

Salary not provided
React
Ruby on Rails
Senior level
Remote in US
G2

Business software and services reviews

Open for applications

G2

Business software and services reviews

1001+ employees

B2BMarketplaceInternal toolsAnalytics

Open for applications

Salary not provided
React
Ruby on Rails
Senior level
Remote in US

1001+ employees

B2BMarketplaceInternal toolsAnalytics

Company mission

G2's mission is to make trust a central part of the digital transformation.

Role

Who you are

  • 5+ years of programming experience, in a web environment
  • Minimum 2 years of professional experience using Ruby on Rails
  • Experience working in an agile environment
  • Understand software architecture and how it is applied in context, best practices in more than one
  • Language
  • Opinionated about how applications should be built, based on your experience delivering software
  • Balance development with collaborative meetings
  • Prior pairing or mentoring experience

Desirable

  • Experience building large-scale web applications
  • A degree in Computer Science or a completed bootcamp

What the job involves

  • At G2 we make solutions with Ruby on Rails and React with an emphasis on good code design and quality
  • Build a high-quality, stable, secure, and well tested web application
  • Apply database skills against a large and expanding dataset
  • Use patterns of code decomposition to break down tasks into deliverable solutions
  • Work in close coordination with designers, product managers, developers, and partners
  • Track metrics alongside core features to help make informed decisions
  • Work with developers to help understand complex topics and architecture, and provide strategies
  • And learning opportunities
  • Ensure quality releases by writing tests covering unit, integration and functional requirements
  • Follow agile best practices to develop and test features
  • Mentor other engineers building a culture of learning

Our take

G2 helps companies to compare the best business software and services based on user ratings and social data. Its rise emphasizes just how fragmented and competitive the market is for business software today, and how a company that provides a way to navigate through all the confusion has a very good shot at building a lucrative business.

Fundamentally, a vertical search engine that actually works and which can fill a gap in the market has massive potential, despite the dominance of Google and Amazon in so many areas of search and online commerce.

G2 Crowd is part of a large group of organisations that have sprung up online that provide reviews and competitive analysis of various software products. However, unlike many others G2 doesn't use an affiliate revenue model where revenue is earned through advertisement and clicks. G2 instead uses a similar model to Glassdoor, striving for authenticity and credibility.

The other area where G2 Crowd is hoping to build out its business is in areas of analytics and research — competing against the likes of Forrester, Gartner and IDC for profiles and sector analysis.

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Kirsty

Company Specialist

Insights

Top investors

Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

53% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Jun 2021

$157m

SERIES D

Oct 2018

$55m

SERIES C

Total funding: $257.6m

Company benefits

  • 22 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
  • Work from home opportunities

Company values

  • Performance – Because this is where it all starts. We all have to do our jobs well.
  • Entrepreneurship – Because as we grow, we need to strive to improve every single day
  • Authenticity – Because all of our reviews are 100% real. And so is the way we communicate internally
  • Kindness – Because we believe doing great work starts with compassion and heart

Company HQ

Chicago Loop, Chicago, IL

Leadership

Proven entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of G2.com. Previously founded and led BigMachines, a leading SaaS CPQ company, which as CEO grew profitably from scratch leading to its acquisition in 2013 for over $400M.

Tim Handorf

(Head of G2 Labs)

Before G2, served as a Vice President of Product Management at BigMachines, Inc. Led BigMachines's product management team and was responsible for setting its product direction.

Hardcore VIM power-user, whose weapons of choice include closure, lazy instantiation, and promises. Came to G2Crowd from TapJoy, where they helped to launch a mobile web product to an audience of more than 3 million users.

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