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ABOUT INVENTABLES
Inventables is a software and hardware company working to ignite a new product revolution by bringing manufacturing capability into the hands of millions of people. We’re doing this by building accessible tools for makers—including the X-Carve and X-Carve Pro, our affordable carving machines and Easel, our easy-to-use design software. Together, Easel and the machines help makers of all experience levels create products out of a variety of materials, ranging from beautiful hardwoods to colorful acrylics.
While our downtown Chicago office and workshop is a space where employees can meet, work, and use our products, we are a remote-first company and welcome talent located across the country.
Check out Easel, our machines, and some of the products our customers make:
WHY YOU WANT TO WORK HERE:
- We set aside Fridays for each engineer to direct their own R&D–whether exploring new technologies, or working on problems they think are important.
- We believe in making time for exploration and creativity. You’ll have your own creative project budget + your own personal exploration budget.. Plus you get a free carving machine!
- Career growth matters and we’ve laid out a clear path to growth as an engineer and leader. Plus use the 3k a year career growth budget you’ll have to help get where you want to be.
- We are committed to providing a flexible and healthy work-life balance and encourage you to take full advantage of our “take what you need” vacation policy.
- We arestaying100% remote so you don’t have to worry about going back to the office.
- We do an outstanding job at staying connected in a virtual work environment. (Ask us how we do it!)
- Working on a small (but highly collaborative) team, you’ll havelots of autonomy and your work will make a BIG impact.
ABOUT THE POSITION
Our team is growing & we’re looking for Software Engineers interested in working on one of the most creative and exciting products on the market! As a Senior Software Engineer at Inventables, you’ll help develop Easel, our web-based software that makes it easy to design and carve three-dimensional objects. You’ll encounter—and help solve—a variety of interesting technical and conceptual challenges.
You’ll have a real impact—you’ll help us grow our team and its capabilities, and the code you write will be used by thousands of people every day, including small business owners, crafters, hobbyists, and students.
Here’s what you’ll do:
- Build features that make it easier to create, share, and remix designs
- Make improvements to help people use our tools confidently and successfully
- Extend Easel to support new 3D carving machines with new capabilities
- Evolve our infrastructure to automate tasks and improve our ability to monitor and troubleshoot our software
- Collaborate with our Design, Product, Marketing, and Customer Success teams to identify the best ways our software can help scale our business
- Mentor other team members in software design and development
- Help the team iterate our development practices and continuously improve our execution
Here’s what we need:
- 5+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience building a production web application
- Experience with Javascript, HTML, and CSS
- Experience with test-driven development
Preferred
- Experience with React and Redux or similar libraries
- Experience with Ruby on Rails
- Experience building interactive, data-driven user interfaces
- Familiarity with AWS or similar cloud hosting services
- Familiarity with the Linux command line
- Experience mentoring other developers
YOU’LL GET THESE BENEFITS AND PERKS!
- BCBS Health & Dental Insurance
- Flexible Accrued Vacation ( “Take what you need” vacation policy)
- 401(k) program with 4% company match (no vesting schedule!)
- Options Program
- Annual work remote budget
- Annual “exploration budget” to feed your curiosity (Use this budget on any hobby or interest you’d like to explore like guitar lessons, cooking classes, yoga…whatever interests you!)
- Annual “creative project budget” to help you stay creative
- Weekly R&D time blocks — spend dedicated time each week learning, experimenting, and working on projects of your choosing
- Annual professional development budget of 3K for conferences, books, courses, or trainings (You pick)
- Paid Parental Leave Program
- Internet expense reimbursement
- A complementary Inventables X-Carve Machine
We value the things that make us different and believe a diverse company drives innovation. Inventables provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants, and prohibits discrimination of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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