Software Engineer

High Alpha is hiring key team members for a new B2B SaaS startup in Indianapolis. This position will be with High Alpha’s latest company, which is pre-public launch. You’ll work closely with the internal High Alpha team & first employees, while reporting directly to the CTO. If you’ve ever been interested in working at a company from scratch as a member of the initial team, this is it!

We’re seeking a front-end focused software engineer to take ownership of our application’s UI, from discovery through delivery & maintenance. The ideal team-mate is a React.JS engineer who can work with our design & other engineering team members to ideate, plan, and deliver an experience that helps our customers (B2B SaaS Marketers) reach their SEO goals. Full stack development experience with React & Ruby on Rails is a bonus, but not required.

We take pride in providing a user-friendly, fast, and streamlined experience to our customers and are looking for top-tier engineering talent to help us make that a reality.  We are currently on the lookout for a driven, hardworking, creative, and collaborative software engineer to join our team. You’ll have the opportunity to shape and drive the implementation and development processes that create an amazing product.

What You’ll Do: 

• Report directly to the CTO
• Ship product by working in and on our tech stack: React.js, Ruby on Rails, Postgres
• Collaborate with designers and other engineers to deliver on our product roadmap
• Collaborate cross-functionally with our Consulting & Sales teams to implement feedback and guide our platform’s user experience
• Build a set of experiences that helps marketers grow revenue by managing and coaching the executing on SEO and conversion rate optimization strategies.
• Review, debug, and resolve complex problems with real-time applications.

What We’re Looking For:

• 3+ years’ experience developing software in a SaaS environment 
• Expertise in JavaScript & React.js
• Special Consideration for additional proficiency in Ruby, Rails, Python, PHP, ASP.NET, Java 
• A vibrant passion for coding and creating intuitive user experiences
• Strong interpersonal skills to connect with a small, early-stage team
• Thorough understanding of web architectures and technologies (HTTP, REST)
• Experience with cloud development tools like Heroku, Github, JIRA, AWS
• Working understanding of relational databases & how UI’s interact with them (Postgres)
• Experience presenting data from a back-end architecture, to analytics-oriented users.
• A track record of hard work, meeting deadlines, and exceeding job expectations