About AnyRoad
AnyRoad is the leader in experiential marketing software. We were founded on the belief that real-life, in-person experiences offer brands invaluable opportunities to build long-lasting relationships with their consumers, ultimately creating a community of brand advocates and accelerating revenue growth.
AnyRoad offers the only unified platform for experiential marketing that effectively connects back-end processes like booking, ticketing, payments, and more, with first-party data capture, consumer feedback, and analytics. Armed with our platform, leading brands across various industries are able to streamline and scale their event operations, drive continuous improvements in their strategy with actionable insights, and increase the return on investment from every experience.
The Role
We are looking for an experienced Full Stack Engineer to join our Experience Platform team. As a member of this team, you will help build consumer-facing features that power experiences (tours, classes, events, activations) for some of the world’s largest brands. You will use your engineering prowess to build well architected solutions that beautifully balance the sophistication, scale and flexibility that these brands require with the simplicity that makes AnyRoad easy for everyday consumers to use.
Please note this role is based out of our SF office 2x/week on Tuesday and Thursday.
What We’re Looking For:
- 5+ years of experience designing, building and deploying web applications at scale
- Degree in computer science or similar preferred
- At least 3 years experience using Ruby on Rails and React – or a comparable backend and frontend mix (MVC, ORM, views, state management)
- Understanding how to architect and build modern backends with user experience forethought
- Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale web application backends (e.g., well-designed APIs, resiliency, data structures, efficient algorithms)
- Ability to provide guidance on the technical direction of strategic initiatives
- Ability to champion coding best practices, observability, quality and performance
- Experience to leverage modern monitoring/telemetry tools to identify, assess, and prioritize web application issues
- Significant experience with relational database systems (e.g PostgreSQL), NoSQL systems (e.g. DynamoDB, Redis)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work effectively across internal organizations and virtual teams
- Passion to stay current with the latest technology trends and bringing the best to the team
- An inclination towards selflessness, collaboration, communication, inclusion, and visibility
- Interest in some or all of the following: high throughput transactional systems, payment processing, event processing, DevOps, performance & scalability
- US Citizenship or work visa required (unfortunately at this time, we cannot sponsor)
What You’ll Do:
- Collaborate with the product team and engineering leadership in gathering requirements, planning, and estimation
- Architect and implement business logic in Ruby on Rails backend and Relational data store
- Develop and maintain APIs to interface with web UI
- Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code following our coding standards
- Maintain our test code coverage, identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and quality issues
- Participate in system design, code reviews, incident rotation, and production releases
- Contribute to our Engineering culture by participating in our engineering meetings where we share innovative ideas and discuss developer acceleration practices
- Contribute to our technical documentation and system diagrams as we build new features
What You Might Work On?
- Enhance our pricing engine to provide dynamic pricing of experience slots based on schedule, demand, availability
- Architect an event based notification system that can be used to send transactional email, sms, whatsapp notifications to event attendees either through AnyRoad or through an integration with customer messaging systems
- Build an extensible framework that allows customers to share detailed attendee information for guests logged into their systems with the AnyRoad application to help streamline the booking process or provide exclusive “member-only” event lists
- Add additional payment systems to our underlying commerce engine to enable our global customers leverage locally preferred payment providers
- Enhance waitlist capabilities to allow customers to always have guests on standby in case experience slots become available
About our Engineering Team
Working at AnyRoad
Our day-to-day is infused with a sense of collaboration, motivation, and the shared goal of helping AnyRoad succeed. We prefer to work together in person, but team members can work remotely when the need arises. Wednesdays are the designated work from home days.
We emphasize sharing knowledge, taking ownership, and continual learning. When we hire, we’re looking as much for character, curiosity and communication skills as for technical aptitude. It might be an expected comment, but it’s worth saying that we really thoroughly enjoy working together.
Why Join Us?
- Ground-floor opportunity at a fast-growing company in which you’ll immediately and directly impact the company’s future.
- We are a small, talented, and agile team working hard to define a new product category and having fun doing it.
- Diversity and inclusion are integral to our company’s values and growth. We are proud to be a gender-balanced organization and actively encourage applications from underrepresented communities.
- Backed by prominent investors such as a16z, Runa Capital, BlackRock, and Kaiser Permanente.
- We are a leader in our space and work with some of the world’s leading brands.
- Competitive salary, equity, benefits, and perks.
- Hybrid & remote work environments. We have offices in the US and a presence across EMEA, including an office in Greece.
- Emphasis on growth and opportunities for learning and development.
Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
AnyRoad is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are committed to considering all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any characteristic protected by law. If you require accommodation during the job application process, please notify
[email protected] for support.
