We Are Hiring — Lead Rails Engineers Wanted!
April 3, 2014

We Are Hiring — Lead Rails Engineers Wanted!

by Brian de Haaff

We have had a terrific year and seem to have touched a nerve with Aha! The business is growing fast and we have been busy expanding the team. We are now looking for terrific Rails developers and a very forward-looking marketing lead.

Join a winning team. Work anywhere. Be happy.

We’re changing the way companies innovate and create software that matters.

Lead Engineer

Are you an Engineer looking to revolutionize the way people innovate and build software? Do you want to create something that will change the way people think about innovation, and work with cutting-edge visualization, collaboration, and social ideation technologies at the same time? We are looking for highly ambitious engineers who want to own major aspects of the Aha! product – from the back-end through to the end user experience. If this is you, we want to hear from you!

As a Lead Engineer, you will have an excellent opportunity to jump into a breakthrough and profitable company that is growing fast. Aha! was founded by a proven team of Silicon Valley veterans whose last two companies were acquired by Aruba Networks [ARUN] and Citrix [CTXS] respectively.

We’re looking for someone who:
  • Is experienced in Ruby-on-Rails

  • Is interested in working on Reactive UI, coffeescript, D3

  • Has helped design and implement key functionality for a cloud-based product

  • Wants to have ownership and responsibility for a major aspect of product functionality from back-end algorithms through to the user interface

  • Likes to think about how to tailor a user experience, but is also comfortable creating highly scalable infrastructures

  • Wants to be great and work in a fast-moving, online environment where the end-user is king

We are committed to being great, and we want someone who:
  • Can work at a fast-paced company where the feedback cycle is measured in hours rather than weeks

  • Has a background of delivering superb work again and again

  • Is seeking a career-defining opportunity and a proven, results-oriented team which has sold multiple software companies

We are building a distributed team and you can work from anywhere in the US for this role.

For immediate consideration, please email amy@aha.io. We’ll be sure to get back to you shortly. We are not working with recruiters or agencies.

Lead Marketer

Are you a marketing star looking to revolutionize the way people innovate and build software? Do you want to help evangelize something that is changing the way people think about innovation, and use cutting-edge content generation, social, video, and community-based programs at the same time? We are looking for a high energy marketing leader who is looking to take a huge career leap forward — and jump on a rocket. If this is you, we want to hear from you!

As a Lead Marketer, you will have an excellent opportunity to join a breakthrough and profitable company that is growing fast. Aha! was founded by a proven team of Silicon Valley veterans whose last two companies were acquired by Aruba Networks [ARUN] and Citrix [CTXS] respectively.

We’re looking for someone who:
  • Is experienced in high-tech business marketing

  • Has led social initiatives and innovative marketing programs for a cloud-based product

  • Wants to have ownership and responsibility of key work and measure the success of programs

  • Is bold, likes to interact with customers, and take on increasing levels of responsibility

  • Wants to be great and work in a fast-moving, online environment where market and customer feedback is king

We are committed to being great, and we want someone who:
  • Can work at a fast-paced company where the feedback cycle is measured in hours rather than weeks

  • Has a “get it done” attitude and a background of delivering superb work again and again

  • Is seeking a career-defining opportunity and a proven, results-oriented team which has sold multiple software companies

We are building a distributed team and you can work from anywhere in the US for this role.

For immediate consideration, please email amy@aha.io. We’ll be sure to get back to you shortly. We are not working with recruiters or agencies.

About Aha!

Aha! is the new way to build brilliant roadmaps. Building software is invigorating and product managers should be the happiest people on earth. Our beautiful, cloud-based software helps make product and engineering managers heroes by enabling them to set product strategy, visualize and share roadmaps, and articulate features so their product development teams can build what matters. Aha! was founded by Silicon Valley veterans and software development experts, Brian de Haaff and Dr. Chris Waters, whose last two companies were acquired by Aruba Networks [ARUN] and Citrix [CTXS] respectively. The team has founded or been early employees of six cloud-based technology companies and has a total of 15 issued patents. Aha! serves many of the best-known software and Web companies and is based in Menlo Park, CA. Sign up for a free trial at www.aha.io to get your product mojo back.

Diversity

We are committed to hiring, promoting, and compensating employees based on their qualifications and demonstrated ability to perform job responsibilities. As an equal opportunity employer, Aha! promotes equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants, without regard to age, race, color, national origin, physical or mental disability, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or veteran status, condition of pregnancy, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Aha! does not work with recruiters and does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. We are not responsible for any fees related to resumes sent to us by any third party.

Brian de Haaff

Brian de Haaff

Brian seeks business and wilderness adventure. He is the co-founder and CEO of Aha! — the world’s #1 product development software — and the author of the bestseller Lovability and The Startup Adventure newsletter. Brian writes and speaks about product and company growth and the journey of pursuing a meaningful life.

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