Web Engineer, Content at Ably

Our everyday digital experiences are in the midst of a realtime revolution. Whether attending an event in a virtual venue, receiving realtime financial information, or monitoring live car performance data – consumers simply expect realtime digital experiences as standard. At Ably we’re not just witnessing this revolution - we’re powering it.

At the heart of our mission lies a commitment to putting developers first. Ably provides a suite of APIs to build, extend, and deliver powerful digital experiences in realtime, delivering billions of messages for millions of devices every day and supporting organizations like Toyota, Bloomberg and Hubspot.

Working at Ably means helping to build the infrastructure and technology that will power and shape the future of the internet. The opportunity in front of us is immense. And we’d like your help.

About this role

You will be responsible for helping shape the future of our content marketing and publishing platforms. You’ll draw on your broad range of expertise across the web stack to design, develop and deliver improvements and new features to our marketing website, blog and deeply technical long-tail content.

Day to day you will

• Provide technical leadership. You’ll be responsible for strategic technical decisions that help our marketing and content teams achieve their goals.
• Deliver quality code. You’ll be hands-on with development to build and deliver improvements and new features to our suite of marketing and content tools.
• Own and manage the delivery roadmap. You’ll be responsible for the entire lifecycle of development of our projects, including the development of new features, maintenance, bug fixing and testing.
• Level up how we deliver content. You’ll spend time working in Contentful & Ghost, understanding our content models and contributing to them, as well as helping users understand how to get the most of the features you’ve built for them.
• Oversee external resources. You’ll lead and review work by freelancers and others that contribute to our content marketing platforms.
• Focus on continual improvement. Whether it’s deliberately refactoring code to make our lives easier or updating our processes to be more effective, you’ll work to improve content marketing through improved engineering practices.
• Develop effective testing strategies. You’ll test your own work, and when needed walk stakeholders through how to best test your work before it goes into production.

We'd love to hear from you if you have

• Strong HTML, CSS and Javascript skills, including knowledge of modern frameworks such as React & Gatsby.
• Understanding of best practices related to accessibility, SEO, performance and security.
• Experience with modern approaches to CSS, such as styled components and TailwindCSS.
• Experience with designing and implementing frontend architectures, like component libraries, SPA’s, and server-side rendered applications.
• A full-stack mindset and experience building full-stack applications with CI/CD, as well as understand and promote the importance of the latter.
• Experience with writing automated tests for software with tools like Jest or Cypress.
• Cross-functional team experience. You worked closely with designers and product managers in short, effective feedback loops.
• A solid grasp of Agile, Kanban and SCRUM principles and experience working with stakeholders to create and manage backlogs and delivery of work.
• Experience in dynamic, early stage startups where adaptability and resourcefulness are crucial.
• A transparent and collaborative “build in the open” mindset.

It would be great, but not essential if you have

• Experience with Contentful CMS.
• Experience delivering developer-focussed products or services.
• Experience with Gatsby Cloud

What’s it like to work at Ably?

We’re tackling planet-scale problems and our ambitions are a testament to that. You’ll join a successful, deeply motivated and collaborative team that thrives on innovation, experimentation and autonomy.

To get a sense of life at Ably, visit our careers page at ably.com/careers. You can also read about the origins of Ably's core values on our blog (ably.com/blog/ably-values).

Our aspiration is to foster a company culture that's built on inclusivity and mutual respect among all team members. We recognise that each person is different and will want to be supported in different ways which is why our benefits (ably.com/ukbenefits) are there to help you focus on your needs today and prepare you for your future.

Ably is a remote-first company and, amongst other things, we offer a generous holiday allowance, private healthcare and substantial opportunities for learning and development, and access to a wealth of resources dedicated to your wellbeing. We’re proud to go the extra mile to support the welfare and prospects of Ablyans and their long-term goals.

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Ably

We believe our differences as individuals is what makes us great. Our people are at the heart of what we do, and we encourage everyone to be their most authentic self at Ably: we see inclusivity and openness as fundamental to creating long-term success as an organization. We encourage applications from all backgrounds regardless of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, parental status, race, religion, educational background or neurodiversity. Ably has an amazing opportunity ahead of us, and we want anyone to be able to contribute to that opportunity.

If you enjoy working as part of a technology company, value open source, and love solving hard problems - then we’d love to hear from you, regardless of whether you fit the job description exactly or not. If in doubt, drop us an email; we’d be more than happy to give you some advice on your application.