Senior Software Engineer, Communities

About Us

We power the creator economy.

Founded in 2010 in Irvine, California, Kajabi is the leading creator commerce platform, helping creators turn their knowledge, experience, and expertise into sustainable online businesses. With Kajabi's integrated platform, creators have a single ecosystem to build and market their digital products, including online courses, communities, live coaching, and more. Tens of thousands of creators and entrepreneurs rely on Kajabi as the backbone of their business and have collectively earned over $9 billion from more than 85 million customers. Learn more at kajabi.com. 

Kajabi is looking for senior-level full stack engineers to join our Communities team. The ideal candidate will bring deep engineering expertise across our React/TypeScript frontend and Ruby on Rails backend to enhance our community platform, while also leveraging AI-powered tools to boost productivity.

The Impact you will make

• Design and develop critical systems, platforms, and features within the Kajabi platform and ecosystem.
• Partnering with internal and external stakeholders to define and implement alternate methods increases Kajabi’s offering for knowledge entrepreneurs to build their business.
• Integrate with 3rd party systems to build new solutions for Kajabi’s platform.
• Work cross-functionally with our product managers and designers to plan, strategize and execute.
• Write clean, simple, well-tested code that is easy to understand and maintain leveraging AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, Devin) for code generation, refactoring, and debugging.
• Review code written by other developers both in and outside of your team.
• Create reusable and maintainable systems and abstractions.
• Provide technical leadership, feedback and mentorship to mid-level and junior developers.
• Occasionally participate in customer feedback interviews led by the product manager or designer to gain insights into our customer's experience of the product.
• Serve as a point-person during work hours for one week as part of our rotating schedule.

Attributes for Success

• You have at least 5+ years in software development
• Experience working with our stack: Ruby on Rails  (and Sidekiq, Redis, Memcached), React (or a similar frontend framework), JavaScript/TypeScript, GraphQL, Postgres
• You have deep understanding and strong experience designing and building systems with object oriented programming languages
• Experience building out various APIs protocols/architectures from the ground up (REST, GraphQL)
• Deployment and operational experience using cloud platforms like AWS, GCP or Heroku
• You are a believer in SOLID principles, automated testing, CI/CD, and keeping our platform operationally excellent
• You leverage AI development tools and explore new tools as they become available.
• You feel confident architecting features without much help and are able to get unstuck most of the time
• Plus if you’ve shipped, operated, scaled, and supported applications in a high traffic SaaS environment
• You’re a software engineer who cares deeply about delivering operationally excellent systems through meticulous attention to details
• You take a thoughtful approach to decision making; knowing when to move fast and when to do things right
• You have a results-oriented approach, with an inherent ability to solve complex problems and deliver a high-quality product
• You have some experience providing technical leadership and guidance

1. Build and support software that makes the world a little bit better by empowering thousands of people to help millions of people get a little bit better at... just about everything: We've built a product that people from all walks of life are using to teach just about anything you can imagine, from personal development, to personal finance and investing, to software development, to yoga, or floral arrangement and everything in between and beyond. Whatever your interests, there are likely at least a few customers who are sharing that kind of knowledge with the world, using Kajabi. If you care about teaching, sharing, and helping others, consider your work at Kajabi a force multiplier that will touch the lives of millions of people. You'll learn a thing or two about what it takes to create, market, and sell digital products. You might even be inspired to make a course of your own—we'd love that!
2. Work with an incredible group of human beings:"It's the people." That's what everyone seems to say when asked what they like most about working at Kajabi. It's what candidates say when they come and visit the office and meet the team for the first time. We spend a major portion of our lives at work, so above all we try to be good humans, to each other and to our customers.
3. Work within a collaborative and high performing cross-functional product team: We've divided responsibility for our app across several cross-functional teams consisting of about 7 to 10 people including a product designer, QA, UX developer, and a few full-stack or backend developers.
4. Join us as we enter into a new season of growth: We've been bootstrapped, profitable, and proud since day one. We launched in 2010 with an incredibly successful product. In 2016, we launched the third ground-up rebuild of our core product, one that we plan to shape and grow for many years to come. We have a stable and mature application with thousands of customers that count on us to continuously improve and support each and every feature. We've been able to build a large and successful app with a tiny team, but in this new season, we've divided up our application into more focused areas of responsibility.

• Company paid premiums for medical, dental and vision insurance for self and family.
• Company sponsored HSA account.
• Company 401K, 100% match up to 6% of employee contributions.
• Flexible vacation policy.
• Fitness incentives package.
• Company funded mental health resources.
• Wellness perks.

We let the type of work you do guide the collaboration style. That means we're not always working in an office, but we continue to gather for key moments of collaboration and connection. 

• This role will need to be in the office for in-person collaboration 2-3 times a quarter and therefore is best situated in the Western Time zones.

At Kajabi we believe the workplace should be equitable, inclusive, and inspiring for every employee. In an effort to provide greater transparency, we are sharing the base salary range for this position. The position is also eligible for equity. Final salary is based on a number of factors including location, travel, relevant prior experience, or particular skills and expertise.

US based applicants only.

$133,500 - $178,000.00 + equity + bonus

Sound like a good fit for you? Click apply, below!

Kajabi LLC  is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.