Product Engineer
About The Position
Wellio is hiring an Engineer to add to our Product Team. We’re a (mostly) bootstrapped company that has been funded by real customers. We love to work on actual problems that schools wouldn't be able to solve otherwise. We like to ship fast but also keep and eye on the quality of the code we write. We are a Ruby on Rails company and we believe that we wouldn't be able to move as fast with any other technologies. We try to stay as close to the Rails way as possible, but we can also branch out if we find a better tool for the job. We want to keep our stack in check. We try to keep up with updates - we are currently using Ruby 4.0.7 and Rails 8.1.3.1. We're inspired by product philosophies from 37signals, Linear, and Airbnb, and we implement the Shape Up process to guide our product development. We believe in small, senior teams that embrace constraints, focus on craft, and deliver exceptional outcomes. Some principles that guide us: continuous discovery, small teams over big ones, embracing constraints, fixed appetites with flexible scopes, knowing our tools and cutting with the grain, treating product as a marketing job, obsessing over craft and sweating the details, and avoiding long-term plans in favour of betting on what matters right now. Improving student wellbeing requires solutions that weave technology and content together seamlessly. Most edtech companies split this work - platform teams here, content teams there, design somewhere else. We think that leads to narrow solutions that miss the bigger picture. At Wellio, design and content teams report into product because the best solutions integrate all three disciplines. The team We are a small product team consisting of: CTO, Two other senior Product Engineer, Designer, Head of Product. You will also work very closely to the co-founders as well as the customer facing teams. Every line of code that we write is to solve customers' problems and we believe that the best way to do that is to stay as close to the customers as possible.
Requirements
- Extensive Ruby on Rails experience
- Passion for building products that matter
- Thrive on solving challenging technical problems
- Get energised when you see your solutions making a real difference for customers
- Take your work seriously, and keep the customer at the centre of what you do
- Value clean code but understand that perfect is sometimes the enemy of good, especially at this stage of the company
- Actively fight against the stereotype of the grumpy engineer
- Approach challenges with curiosity and creativity rather than immediate roadblocks
- When presented with requests or ideas, your first instinct is to explore possibilities: "How might we make this work?" or "What would it take to achieve this?"
- Excel at finding pragmatic compromises and alternative approaches that balance technical constraints with business needs
- Known for their constructive problem-solving and ability to turn complex challenges into actionable solutions
- Well versed in AI assisted coding
Responsibilities
- Have deep knowledge of our codebase and business domain
- Lead the implementation of several major product initiatives
- Improve our development practices through code reviews and technical documentation
- Help establish patterns and practices that make our monolith easier to work with
- Be a trusted voice in technical discussions and architectural decisions
Benefits
- We invest in flying our team together for two meetups a year.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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