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ABOUT INVENTABLES

Inventables helps makers generate income from their work. We do so by building 3D carving machines and the software to create designs and carve those designs on their machines. Our goal is to have an accessible ecosystem to provide everything makers need to go from concept to physical product. To achieve this goal, we’re growing at a fast but sustainable pace.

Check out our products and take a look at the amazing things our customers are making HERE

WHY YOU WANT TO WORK HERE:

  • We set aside Fridays for each engineer to direct their own R&D–whether exploring new technologies, or working on problems they think are important.

  • We believe in making time for exploration and creativity. You'll have your own creative project budget + your own personal exploration budget.. Plus you get a free carving machine!

  • Career growth matters and we’ve laid out a clear path to growth as an engineer and leader. Plus use the 3k a year career growth budget you’ll have to help get where you want to be. 

  • We are committed to providing a flexible and healthy work-life balance and encourage you to take full advantage of our “take what you need” vacation policy. 

  • We are staying 100% remote so you don’t have to worry about going back to the office.

  • We do an outstanding job at staying connected in a virtual work environment. (Ask us how we do it!)

  • Working on a small (but highly collaborative) team, you’ll have lots of autonomy and your work will make a BIG impact. 

ABOUT THE POSITION

On our ecommerce team, we work to understand all aspects of the business, to build a platform that allows our company to scale while providing an exceptional customer experience. That means that, in addition to being experts in the technology and creative problem-solvers, we work with every department in the company. 

On the technical side, most of our software is built with Ruby on Rails and Javascript, hosted in AWS. 

Here’s what you’ll do: 

  • Collaborate with people on our engineering team and across the company to design and implement software solutions to solve business problems.

  • Mentor other team members in software development and design

  • Work within the team to iterate on our development process and continuously improve our execution

  • Evolve our infrastructure to automate operational tasks and to improve the reliability and transparency of our software

Here’s what we need:

  • 2 + years of software engineering experience (we are hiring for all levels)

  • Experience building a production web application with Ruby on Rails or a similar framework

  • Experience with Javascript, HTML, CSS, and responsive design

  • Experience with SQL databases

  • Bonus: Familiarity with AWS or similar infrastructure tools

  • Bonus: Experience with React, Redux, or similar libraries

  • Bonus: Experience (or an interest in) mentoring other developers

YOU’LL GET THESE BENEFITS AND PERKS!

  • BCBS Health & Dental Insurance

  • Flexible Accrued Vacation (“Take what you need” vacation policy)

  • 401(k) program with 4% company match (no vesting schedule!)

  • Options Program 

  • Annual work remote budget

  • Annual “exploration budget” to feed your curiosity (Use this budget on any hobby or interest you’d like to explore like guitar lessons, cooking classes, yoga...whatever interests you!)

  • Annual “creative project budget” to help you stay creative 

  • Weekly R&D time blocks — spend dedicated time each week learning, experimenting, and working on projects of your choosing

  • Annual professional development budget of 3K for conferences, books, courses, or trainings (You pick)

  • Paid Parental Leave Program

  • Internet expense reimbursement 

  • A complementary Inventables X-Carve Machine

 

We value the things that make us different and believe a diverse company drives innovation. Inventables provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants, and prohibits discrimination of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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600 W Van Buren St Ste 215 Chicago, IL 60607, Chicago, IL 60661

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