Senior Software Engineer at Gumroad
About the company:
Who we are
Gumroad enables creatives to sell directly to their audience — so that they can make a living doing what they love. Writers, designers, game developers, musicians, artists, and filmmakers use Gumroad to earn money off of their creative efforts.
What we do
We are enabling millions of creators to earn a living selling what they make. We spend every day solving difficult problems so that creators can spend their time making stuff.
We are a small team (ex-Pinterest, Yelp, Twitter, Facebook, and more) based in San Francisco and are backed by great investors such as Max Levchin, Ron Conway, Kleiner Perkins, and Accel Partners.
Working at Gumroad
Gumroad is great for folks who like to manage themselves. They don’t like managing others, and they don’t like being managed. Instead, they manage “up.”
Every role is product-focused, self-motivated, and business-minded. If you hate meetings and love to ship, and/or if you plan to be a CEO yourself someday, this may be a good fit for you.
We live by our values:
- Real artists ship: We ship early and often.
- Save other time: Time is our most sacred asset. Back-and-forths are expensive.
- Less is more: We say no by default.
- Dollar-based decisions: We measure success in net income.
- Above and beyond: We ship better than we scope.
Today, working at Gumroad resembles working on an open source project like Rails. Except it’s neither open source, nor unpaid.
Instead of having meetings, people “talk” to each other via GitHub, Notion, and (occasionally) Slack, expecting responses within 24 hours. Because there are no standups or “syncs” and some projects can involve expensive feedback loops to collaborate, working this way requires clear and thoughtful communication.
Our team
Gumroad is 36ish people, scattered all over the world. We are looking for self-motivated, autonomous artists who like to ship to help us build great software products and customer experiences.
Our benefits
- Very competitive salaries
- 100% remote working
- Autonomous working environment
- No meetings
- A unique and forward thinking work culture
Description of the position:
Job located in United States of America
The role
Improve Gumroad by shipping product features, fixing bugs, and removing technical debt. Our stack is primarily Ruby on Rails, React, and Typescript. We also have legacy code in JavaScript and Flight. You should have familiarity with improving a high-quality app in production.
About Gumroad
Gumroad helps creators sell digital products, memberships, and more. Flexile helps founders pay people in equity and dividends. Helper.ai helps you manage your inbound email.
We are a remote-first company with an office in NYC. All positions are contract.
Learn more about how to successfully apply here: https://www.notion.so/gumroad/Hiring-c7211b45018347f8bfcfbe1995cbcef0?pvs=4
Our team
- 34 part-time freelancers
- Average 21 hours / week, 43 weeks / year
- Average tenure of 2.21 years
- 1% annual contractor “churn” rate
Application process
- Apply via Flexile, no resumé required
- If it may be a fit, a phone call to determine cultural fit
- Impress with a project that shows you can do the job
- 4-6 week-long work trial, paid
SalaryAt Gumroad, you decide how many hours you’d like to work (between 20 and 35), and how many weeks per year (between 20 and 44).
You can also swap some cash for equity. This can range from between 0% to 80%.
At the beginning of the year, you will be granted options for the full year, unvested. As your invoices get approved, your chosen percentage of the invoice total will be received as vested options that are then eligible for exercise.
At the end of the year, you will also receive a cash bonus equivalent to the exercise price of the vested options. You can choose to put some portion of this cash bonus towards exercising the vested options, entitling you to annual dividends from Gumroad.
If you decide to wait to exercise, you will still have 10 years upon leaving Gumroad to do so.