Reverb Looking for Software Engineer at Chicago, IL Full Time

Reverb is the largest online marketplace dedicated to buying and selling new, used, and vintage musical instruments. Since launching in 2013, Reverb has grown into a vibrant community of buyers and sellers all over the world. By focusing on inspiring content, price transparency, musician-focused e-commerce tools, a music-savvy customer service team, and more, Reverb has created an online destination where the global music community can connect over the perfect piece of music gear.

We love working at Reverb because we’re making the world more musical—through our marketplace and through Reverb Gives, which provides musical instruments to youth music education programs. We were named a “Best Place to Work” by Built in Chicago and a “Top Workplace” by the Chicago Tribune.

Salary Range

$108,000.00 – $140,000.00

About Engineering At Reverb

We build primarily in Ruby/Rails and React, but we value identifying the right language/framework for the job. We believe in fast feedback cycles, pragmatic code, continuous deployment, and validating our ideas in production as soon as we can. Our teams are highly collaborative and empowered to make a better experience for professional to aspiring musicians around the world. We rely on our ability to work as a team and incorporate different perspectives in order to ship meaningful and impactful software to our users.

About The Role

This is a full-time position reporting to the Engineering Manager of the Discovery Experience team to help users find the music gear they love. Our hybrid work model offers flexible workplace policies that can accommodate work from home candidates who are comfortable traveling to the office location 4+ times per month.

Here are the qualities we look for in our potential hires.

Product ownership

We are not just software engineers! At Reverb, you’ll be encouraged to follow the performance of features you release, talk to product and design, fix bugs, and understand your impact on the business.

Self-motivation

Taking the initiative to get things done by finding ways around potential roadblocks and proactively working with other team members to find right-sized solutions.

Learning and Teaching

You are someone who likes to participate in code reviews and mentor other engineers directly. You also enjoy new challenges and learning new things to help you do your work more effectively.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience with web technologies and applicable RDBMSes, with an emphasis on backend technologies (We mainly use Ruby/Rails with Postgres but there are some opportunities in Typescript)
• Solid understanding of your chosen languages and frameworks, but curiosity and ability to ramp up on new technologies quickly when called for.
• Experience with unit testing (whether TDD, BDD, or spike it first and test it later) and a desire to push everyone to do better.
• Great communication skills and the desire to collaborate across departments and with internal customers.
• Experience with ElasticSearch, GraphQL at scale are huge pluses.

Additional Information

Remote-eligible roles (as indicated in the location header of each job description) are available in all U.S. states except Alaska and Hawaii. Remote roles are currently only available within the U.S. unless otherwise specified in the specific job description.

Benefits

Reverb offers compensation packages that include base, bonus, and equity in the form of Etsy restricted stock units. Some of our key benefits include but are not limited to the following:

• 100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision coverage for the employee, spouse or domestic partner, and all eligible dependents. Medical coverage includes gender affirming care.
• Life, AD&D, and supplemental long-and short-term disability insurance
• A matching 401(k)
• A generous PTO policy that includes vacation, sick/mental health days plus 11 paid holidays and two floating holidays
• Professional development and continued learning opportunities through access to mentoring, 1:1 coaching, and platforms like Skillsoft, LinkedIn Learning and Codecademy
• 18 weeks of gender-neutral parental leave for the birth or adoption of a child
• Up to $25,000 reimbursement of adoption and/or surrogacy related expenses
• Paid sabbatical program
• $1,000 annual work/life stipend
• Access to free supplemental online mental health services and meditation apps
• Ways to give back to your community through a charitable contribution match and volunteer time off

At Reverb, we believe that a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace makes us a more relevant and resilient company. We welcome people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. Reverb is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If, due to a disability, you need an accommodation during any part of the interview process, please let your recruiter know.

We know that the impostor syndrome and confidence gap are real. Please do not hesitate to apply!