Let’s face it, a company whose mission is human transformation better have some fresh thinking about the employer/employee relationship.

We do. We can’t cram it all in here, but you’ll start noticing it from the first interview.

Even our candidate experience is different. And when you get an offer from us (and accept it), you get way more than a paycheck. You get a personal BetterUp Coach, a development plan, a trained and coached manager, the most amazing team you’ve ever met (yes, each with their own personal BetterUp Coach), and most importantly, work that matters.

This makes for a remarkably focused and fulfilling work experience. Frankly, it’s not for everyone. But for people with fire in their belly, it’s a game-changing, career-defining, soul-lifting move.

Join us and we promise you the most intense and fulfilling years of your career, doing life-changing work in a fun, inventive, soulful culture.

If that sounds exciting—and the job description below feels like a fit—we really should start talking. 

We’re looking for a driven full stack software engineer who cares deeply about their craft, and who wants to use their skills to bring about positive change in the world. Someone who is comfortable in the rapidly changing nature of a startup environment but also adept at moving relentlessly forward: doing what needs to be done to unblock projects that truly deliver value to our users. 

Video & Messaging

Our team enables everyone on BetterUp to have impactful conversations. Every day, thousands of coaching conversations happen on our WebRTC-based video call experience and we power the magic behind each conversation. Think of tooling helping you be present in the moment, or changes ensuring video calls work seamlessly for everyone. Besides calls, we are responsible for our messaging feature set and any interaction where two or more people connect and talk. We thus play a crucial role in enabling BetterUp to help everyone live with greater clarity, purpose and passion.

As part of the platform organization, we work in a data driven environment and strive to build systems that other teams can leverage to quickly build new experiences for our users. As a result, you will collaborate with other squads in BetterUp to design, architect, implement, and monitor new product offerings enabling people to connect and flourish.

What you’ll do:

• End-to-end Owner: 
• Own your components during the entire lifecycle, from planning, development, deployment and maintenance phase. 
• Build scalable and tolerant systems using container technologies (Docker, K8s) and cloud infrastructure as code (AWS, Terraform) as well as internal tooling to accelerate product development cycles.
• Product Engineer: 
• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders to craft consumer grade experiences on our SPAs frontend (Ember, Lit) and backend services (Ruby, Elixir).
• Strong desire in delighting our users. Partners with product & design to build software that brings user value and always seeks to improve the user interface and experience.
• Data-driven decision maker:  
• Influence the roadmap by collecting, using and presenting data. 
• Support data-driven decisions, spot opportunities for improvements and optimizations of our systems. 
• Fit the technical components of your team into the business context of BetterUp.

If you have some or all of the following, please apply:

• 3+ years relevant experience, at least part of which in a startup environment.
• Alignment with BetterUp mission of enabling self-driven behavior change.
• You like to collaborate with colleagues outside your team and understand the complete technical landscape.
• Maintainer and owner of your components in production (volume, support, debugging).
• Strong software engineering practices (e.g. coding, unit testing, code reviews, design documentation and collaborative reviews)
• Backend development: Any modern backend tech stack is welcome, we use Ruby and Elixir.
• Frontend development: JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3 and knowledge of any modern frontend framework 
• Optional: Experience with WebRTC, WebSockets, Ruby, Elixir, Rails, EmberJS
• Strong verbal and written communication.

Benefits:

At BetterUp, we are committed to living out our mission every day and that starts with providing benefits that allow our employees to care for themselves, support their families, and give back to their community. 

• Access to BetterUp coaching; one for you and one for a friend or family member 
• A competitive compensation plan with opportunity for advancement
• Flexible paid time off
• Per year: 
• All federal/statutory holidays observed
• 4 BetterUp Inner Work days (https://www.betterup.co/inner-work)
• 5 Volunteer Days to give back
• Learning and Development stipend
• Company wide Summer & Winter breaks 
• Year-round charitable contribution of your choice on behalf of BetterUp

We are dedicated to building diverse teams that fuel an authentic workplace and sense of belonging for each and every employee. We know applying for a job can be intimidating, please don’t hesitate to reach out — we encourage everyone interested in joining us to apply.