Who are we?

Ribbon is a first of its kind real estate technology company transforming the real estate transaction by delivering certainty, transparency and joy to the home buying process. Consumers and realtors deserve a better experience, and we are building an open platform that welcomes everyone in the ecosystem to participate.

Our mission is to make home ownership achievable. We live out our mission every day through our core values:

Set New Standards.  Our mission requires a new way forward.  We start from first-principles to be different, creative and bold.  Big or small, we create new norms.  

Build Together.  We are one team, one mission, creating vibrant communities of belonging. We unite in our passion and collaborate with optimism, integrity and trust.   

Learn, Teach, Grow.  In service of delivering a world class experience, we actively learn from our community, educate others, and celebrate the victories and struggles that come along the way.

Engineering at Ribbon

We believe that software can be a driving force in making home ownership achievable, and we're looking to build a team of passionate and talented engineers to make that dream possible for more families.

At Ribbon we place a strong emphasis on start-to-finish ownership, collaboration, and inclusivity. 

How you'd be making home ownership achievable:

• Leading the Ribbon Engineering Enablement team inclusive of functions that help engineers do their best work and help us scale our business growth
• Coaching and mentoring technical leads and engineering managers to help them do their best work
• Collaborating across all product engineering teams and have tremendous impact on the Ribbon products that modernize the home buying process and make it fair for all
• Ensuring Ribbon builds an architecture that scales along with our user growth
• Being an advocate of engineering practices and initiatives that keep code-quality and team velocity high

Who you are:

• You are a leader that is passionate about coaching, mentorship, and empowering teams 
• You are passionate about building scalable development practices and architectures to enable company growth
• You value inclusivity and collaboration as much as writing good, clean code
• You encourage practices where engineers design and write code that is scalable, performant, and easy for your teammates to build upon and maintain
• You are passionate about learning new tools and skills and are constantly trying to improve your craft

Our stack

Here are some of the tools you'd be using to help us build the future of real estate. If you've never used these specific tools before but are interested in working with them, please apply!

• Back-end: Python, Django, GraphQL
• Front-end: JavaScript, React, Styled Components, Apollo
• Data: Scala, Spark, EMR, Kafka, Airflow, Yarn, Terraform Cloud, Snowflake, Athena, Redshift
• Ops: Kubernetes, Docker AWS, Postgres

What you will do:

• Lead the Ribbon Engineering Enablement team inclusive of: Common Services Team, Data Platform Team, QA Engineering Team, and DevOps Engineering Team 
• Recognize exceptional talent and hire a top tier engineers who each make project impact within the first 3 months of hire
• Facilitate the gathering and prioritization of impactful architecture designs, engineering practices, and QA practices from the engineering team
• Facilitate technical architecture and design of a highly scalable infrastructure and engineering development practices
• Create an architectural pattern to identify how to migrate from a monolithic architecture to a more scalable architecture
• Implement development best practices that will reduce the number of post production defects and improve code quality 
• Implement quality best practices that will reduce the number of post production defects across all device types 
• Provide coaching and mentorship to team by providing challenging work, regular feedback, and fostering an environment where everyone can do their best work 
• Set project goals, facilitate success, and unblock team impediments

What we offer:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible, unlimited vacation
• Fully paid parental leave
• Regular team lunches 
• Health + wellness stipend 
• Company-sponsored TalkSpace membership
• 401(k)
• Commuter benefits
• FSA + HSA
• Learning + development stipend
• Meaningful equity in the company

Even if you don’t meet all the requirements, we encourage you to apply! If you’d be excited to show up for work each day, we’d be excited to have you on our team. 

Here at Ribbon we’re not scared of differences. It’s how we break new ground. As we scale and we help families from every walk of life, the team we build must be reflective of the diversity that we serve. Together, we’ve built and will continue to grow, a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone has a seat at the table and the space to be their most authentic self. Ribbon is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we support, celebrate, and cherish all the things that make our teammates who they are.

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