The engineering team at Aha!, a product roadmap software company, writes about Rails, JavaScript, and developer tooling.
HN mostly sees it in hiring threads, where Aha! recruits remote Rails and React engineers; one employee calls it pragmatic with a blameless, remote culture.
I work for Aha![0]. I'm wary of trying to define the culture of one company in terms of another, so I'll just tell you about where I work, and you can decide.
We are a fully distributed team, and we build a lovable product. We published a book called Lovability[1] to help explain how we do it. We support each other, congratulate each other, and push hard to make it happen; these things require trust and talent in every part of the organization. I am a better person (and engineer) for having worked at this company.
Here are the pillars of our culture[2]:
* Have purpose: You know what you are working towards. You are aware of what success is and guided back to the purpose if you wind up in the weeds.
* Value work: You have the opportunity to achieve and to do something important. Doing great work is valued and recognized.
* Teach hard: Direct feedback is given on a regular basis to help you improve your skills every day.
* Grows talent: There is a framework for success, people are trained on it and given room to grow. There is trust that people will step into challenging roles as the organization needs them to. Promotions occur from within.
* Honor reality: Neither time nor money is invested in manipulation. Work is guided by values and purpose.
* Work it: Work sometimes requires great effort. However, it does not burn you out but instead keeps you going.
Some of my favorite blog posts:
* https://blog.aha.io/your-success-think-like-a-grandpa/
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Aha! (https://www.aha.io) | Rails / React / Devops / Security | REMOTE
Aha! is the #1 tool for product and marketing teams to plan strategy and roadmaps. We serve more than 250,000 users worldwide.
We are looking for:
* Experienced full-stack engineers to work on the Aha! product. Our application is built in Ruby on Rails, with some React on the frontend for rich client-side experiences.
* Devops engineers, experienced with Ruby & AWS to help build and maintain our fully automated infrastructure. All of our operations are done by writing code first, so they are fully reproducible.
* Security engineers, with hands-on Rails development experience plus experience with compliance projects, security policy development, or other security initiatives.
Aha! is profitable, you can work from anywhere in North America, and we offer excellent benefits. We use our own product to manage our work (which is especially rewarding) and we deploy continuously.
Our entire team is remote - in North American timezones so we can collaborate during the work day.
You can view open engineering positions at https://www.aha.io/company/careers/current-openings?category=engineering, and click through to a specific job for our simple application form.
Aha! (https://www.aha.io) | Rails / React / Devops / Security | REMOTE
Aha! is looking for experienced Ruby on Rails engineers to work on the Aha! product. We use Rails extensively, plus React for rich browser based experiences.
Aha! is also looking for Devops engineers, experienced with Ruby & AWS to help build and maintain our fully automated infrastructure. All of our operations is done by writing code first, so it is fully reproducible.
Aha! is the #1 tool for product managers to plan strategy and roadmaps. Aha! is profitable, you can work from anywhere in North America and we offer excellent benefits. We use our own product to manage our work (which is especially rewarding), we deploy continuously and we are developing in Rails/ES6/React.
Our entire team is remote - in US, Canada and Mexico so we can collaborate during the work day.
You can view open engineering positions at https://www.aha.io/company/careers/current-openings?category=engineering, and click through to a specific job for our simple application form.
I don't know if I view managers as having to do with marketing, we would try out project managers. This was after my time at the company, but they're sort of like manager's, except performing more of an organizational task, rather than potentially hiring/firing. They'd play more of a mediator between engineers and other teammates in the group dynamics.
Tools: at Boostable we had Aha (https://www.aha.io/). And we would have the founder Alex split the tickets up. Aha would disseminate the tickets into Pivotal Tracker (https://www.pivotaltracker.com/).
Aha played a really big role in top-down delegation of tasks and equating them to business objectives. That software is pretty cool and I recommend checking it out, because I think in some cases it can make manager's redundant.
After that, it was autonomous. I created a lot of issues by myself directly in Pivotal (which probably lends to them not being recognized officially, since Aha was where the business impact was overviewed)
Aha! (http://www.aha.io) | Rails / Devops / Front End | REMOTE
Aha! is looking for experienced Ruby on Rails engineers to work on the Aha! product. We use Rails extensively, plus React for rich browser based experiences.
Aha! is also looking for Devops engineers, experienced with Ruby & AWS to help build and maintain our fully automated infrastructure. All of our operations is done by writing code first, so it is fully reproducible.
Aha! is the #1 tool for product managers to plan strategy and roadmaps. Aha! is profitable, you can work from anywhere in North America and we offer excellent benefits. We use our own product to manage our work (which is especially rewarding), we deploy continuously and we are developing in Rails/ES6/React.
Our entire team is remote - in US, Canada and Mexico so we can collaborate during the work day.
http://www.aha.io | email: engineering-jobs@aha.io
Aha! (https://www.aha.io) | Rails / React / Devops | REMOTE
Aha! is the #1 tool for product managers to plan strategy and roadmaps. We serve more than 700,000 users worldwide. We are looking for:
* Experienced full-stack Rails and security engineers to work on the Aha! product. Our application is built in Ruby on Rails, with React on the frontend for rich client-side experiences.
* Devops engineers with Ruby experience. We focus on the "dev" and all of our operations driven by code.
Aha! is profitable, you can work from anywhere in North or South America, and we offer excellent benefits. We use our own product to manage our work (which is especially rewarding) and we deploy continuously.
Our entire team has always been 100% remote - in North American timezones so we can collaborate during the work day.