Block Renovation Growth Engineer

ABOUT US

Block is a renovation platform transforming the $450 billion renovation industry. Today, doing a home renovation is an abysmal consumer experience and not easy for contractors either. Block democratizes access to high-end design, while combining design, construction, and materials into a streamlined experience. Block simplifies a complex and convoluted process and gives homeowners certainty on outcomes, quality, price, and time. 

Our mission is to give homeowners a better way to improve the spaces they live in, and to give contractors a better way to work. We are building an ambitious, tenacious, and creative team who is unafraid of tackling new challenges. The founders are former leaders at Casper, HuffPost, and Rent the Runway. Investors include New Enterprise Associates, Lerer Hippeau, Giant Ventures, Obvious Ventures, MorningSide Ventures and more. 

ROLE

We are building an ambitious technical organization and looking for software engineers across backend, frontend, and full-stack to contribute to our mission. One of our new teams is the Growth Engineering team which will bridge the gap between Product development and Marketing. 

You will be the first contributor for Growth Engineering and will work with our engineering, marketing, and sales teams in a low-debt, high-velocity environment to develop our home renovation platform. You will partner with internal growth specialists on expanding the reach of our services. Using your software engineering expertise you will develop new or integrate with existing tools for digital marketing and sales. 

You will design and execute experiments together with the product team and draw conclusions based on the data and information you gather. This will require a forward-thinking and growth mindset to always improve our processes. 

As an early contributor, you will help contribute to key decisions about the technologies, tools, and best practices we adopt into our growth engineering culture. You’ll deliver the best experience possible for our clients while ensuring high standards of code quality. Your work will make a tangible impact on the lives of design and construction professionals along with people and their homes

Some challenges you can help us solve:

• How can we improve our organic reach via SEO, content marketing and rapid landing page creation?
• How to effectively integrate marketing websites with our customer dashboard and web app.
• How can we leverage digital tools in a significantly analog industry to grow modern renovation services?
• How can we execute growth experiments and A/B tests to collect meaningful data and perform analysis to improve next experiments?
• How to develop tools and a digital playbook for Block’s expansion into new markets.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and maintain our marketing website, blog, landing pages, and 3rd party integrations such as Calendly
• Optimize our externally facing web site for search engines
• Provide engineering solutions to marketing and sales challenges
• Assess and integrate 3rd party tools and services to stand up additional traffic channels
• Help set and uphold high standards for code quality, test coverage, and platform stability
• Collaborate on new ideas to rapidly create and test prototypes
• Work alongside engineering, product, design, sales and marketing counterparts
• Ensure our digital client experience is the best it can be
• Make good, informed decisions around technical debt, 3rd party tools, and tradeoffs rather than reinventing the wheel
• Iterate on internal processes to help the team achieve more with less

QUALIFICATIONS

• Growth mindset and experience in working on business KPIs
• Experience in working with marketing technologies like Hubspot, Webflow, Plasmic
• 3+ years experience developing and maintaining web pages or building web UI components
• 1+ years of experience supporting growth teams 
• Knowledge of modern ES6 Javascript/Typescript programming, testing, troubleshooting, and automation techniques
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL (or other comparable RDBMS)
• Experience working with AWS technologies preferred
• Familiarity with growth analytics tools like Google Analytics, Hotjar, etc
• Attention to details and implementation of pixel-perfect UIs

BENEFITS

• Earn equity in an early stage high-growth company
• 100% subsidized health insurance, dental coverage, vision coverage
• 12 weeks universal fully paid family leave
• PTO and company holidays
• 3 weeks a year where you can work anywhere  
• 401k retirement savings plan with matching employer contribution
• Employee discount on renovation services
• Budgeted learning and development stipends
• Working alongside an ambitious, kind, no-drama team

COMPANY VALUES

• Force simplicity
• Problems are our fuel
• Collaborate with tenacity and humility
• Save money where we should
• Speed is our advantage