About Blaze

Blaze is building the most complete marketing tool for teams of one to produce on-brand content in half the time and grow their businesses faster on the internet.

We're not just building a software product at Blaze—we're building a mission-critical platform that evens the playing field for entrepreneurs worldwide so they can compete on the internet, win against the big guys, and control their own destinies.

Blaze customers can plan months worth of ideas, create high-quality 'drafts for every piece of content, and automatically schedule them to post in 60 seconds flat.

Blaze has served tens of thousands of small business owners. Now, we're growing our team on our way to a million customers plus.

We are looking for a full-time, senior full stack engineer with strong Rails and Javascript experience to join our team of talented coders and designers.

About the role

We’re looking for a hungry, talented engineer who wants to make a big impact at an exciting inflection point in our growth.

You'll be responsible for building out the intuitive, interactive experiences that our customers need to grow their businesses through on-brand content, as well as determining the backend architecture and endpoints that we need to support those features.

Specifically you'll:

• Write elegant, well-tested code in a modern technology stack

• Participate in standups, code reviews, and retros

• Work closely with our team to make architecture and design decisions

• Ensure everything runs smoothly & safely in production

• Create standards around development, code review and deployment

Our Tech Stack

• Rails 6.1, Postgres 13.7, React, Algolia, Typescript

• Team size: ~10 engineers

About you

Experiences that make you stand out:

• You have 5+ years experience building great products in Ruby on Rails; during that time you’ve also become proficient in Javascript, ideally React (3+ years experience)

• You can work across the stack, whether it's expanding our API or enhancing the frontend

• You can craft a devastating SQL query to save the day when all else fails

• You have a consistent track record of writing clean, well-thought-out code

• You’ve written comprehensive test suites in a test-driven environment

• You've worked closely with LLM models before like GPT or Claude

Skills that make you extraordinary:

• Obsession with creating high-quality experiences that make users say "wow'

• Ability to work independently and to adapt to the developing requirements of our market

• Love of detailed, continuous feedback that makes your work better

• Top communications skills, specifically around articulating technical problems

• Desire to move faster than expected and prioritize speed over scope

• Hunger to build a world-changing product and engineering culture

• Excited about AI as a new frontier and eager to make an impact there

Our Team

At Blaze, we’re looking for structured thinkers full of passion, ambition, and kindness. We’d love for you apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your experience, skills, and interests will help you stand out—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Blaze, we welcome people of diverse backgrounds and perspectives who aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo. Join us.

At Blaze, we:

• Are fundamental optimists who believe we're still only at the start of the AI age.

• Go to extraordinary lengths to distinguish ourselves through world-class work.

• Prioritize quality over speed, and speed over scope.

• Desire working with deeply kind, mission-driven people.

• Strive to make the complex simple.

• Use first principles to debate ideas, test assumptions, and make decisions.

• Seek the truth by putting data above opinions.

• Assume good intent and give tactical feedback to help each other get better.

• Hold no ego—when our customers win, we all win.

As a company, we are seriously committed to your professional development and growth:

• You will set your own monthly goals aligned with our ambitious strategy

• You will have our collective support in achieving major wins—and personal coaching from your manager

• You will be able to request and manage your own budget

• You will be encouraged to take risks, try new things, and be creative with your work

• You will have many opportunities to exchange and engage in feedback

• You will be offered continual chances to stretch yourself and raise your own bar

• Helping a small company grow 30%+ month-over-month

• You will be rewarded for achieving excellence and mast

Interviewing at Blaze

It’s our goal to provide an efficient, transparent interview experience that respects you and your time. Our roles typically have a four stage process (sometimes more) and we like to move through those as quickly as calendars allow. After submitting your application you will hear from us whether you are a strong fit for the role or not! From here you can expect:

1. An initial screen with our Head of Engineering

2. A technical exercise appropriate to the role

3. A leadership interview with our CEO

4. Possible peer panel with another Product or Engineering Lead