As a Software Engineer on the Growth Team, you will design, implement, and maintain software for revenue growth, collaborating across teams and optimizing production systems.
At ActiveCampaign, Software Engineers work as part of a cross-functional product team in the design, implementation and maintenance of ActiveCampaign’s software product. In this role, you will join the Growth Team, who performs full-stack engineering to design and build new features and capabilities while solving technical problems. The Growth Team runs revenue growth experiments within the ActiveCampaign product and implements longer term revenue growth strategies including customer purchase and upgrade flows, and billing management. Have we said “revenue growth” enough? This is a highly business outcomes focused team!
What your day could consist of:
- Independently produce quality, tested code according to coding standards, best practices, architectural technical vision.
- Troubleshoot and debug large scale systems (user base of 165K+).
- Validate designs by building performance and load testing tools.
- Measure and optimize production systems.
- Collaborate with your team and other teams to build services and APIs that enable feature work across our engineering organization.
- Participate in code reviews, providing helpful feedback to your teammates.
- Support legacy and modern services and applications in the public cloud and deploy them through CI/CD practices.
Technical environment:
- A mix of monolithic PHP & Python microservice architectures
- Microservices deployed into Kubernetes as docker images
- Read/write from both SQL and NoSQL technologies (MySQL, Snowflake, and DynamoDB)
- Develop consumable APIs on the backend
- As needed, build the consumers of those APIs on the frontend as well
- Front-end languages including: JavaScript, React, JQuery, and HTML
- Playwright for functional testing
- Tooling including: Gitlab, Vault, and Jira
What is needed:
- 3+ years of software engineering experience
- Technical degree or related experience in a software engineering role
- Proficient working ability in 1-2 of the languages and technologies listed in the Technical environment section
- Familiarity with PHP/Python is a plus but not required - skill as a programmer is a must!
- Experience creating test plans, writing automated test suites or implement an automated test framework
- Proficiency on a given technology, domain or system, to the point of independent delivery
- Experience working in an Agile development environment
- Ability to participate in the team’s on-call rotation as a service owner
Top Skills
DynamoDB
Gitlab
HTML
JavaScript
JIRA
Jquery
MySQL
NoSQL
PHP
Playwright
Python
React
Snowflake
SQL
Vault
ActiveCampaign Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
Located in the heart of the Loop overlooking State Street, with views of the lake and Millennium Park with easy access to the Metra & CTA stations.
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