UX Software Engineer – Aptible

Job Description:

We’re looking for a UX Software Engineer to help build and make Aptible the best security management platform for startups.

This is a unique opportunity to be a high-impact, early member of the Aptible Team. Reporting directly to our VP of Design, you’ll be responsible for designing and developing tools that help our clients improve their security posture.

About Aptible

Who We Are
Our mission is to build trust on the internet. We do this by empowering innovative teams to build strong data protection programs and become trustworthy custodians of sensitive data.

What We Believe

We believe building trust is essential to unleashing the internet’s transformative potential: A global internet based on strong trust can build communities, reshape economies, and improve the lives of billions around the world. We are starting with security and privacy. Data, such as personal data, is increasingly sensitive and risky to handle.

Imagine:
What if data breaches on the internet weren’t common?
What if every team knew how good they were at security before a breach?
What if every team knew how much time, money, and people they should invest in security?
What if every engineering team had access to great DevOps security?

What We Prioritize

• Customer Empowerment Over Customer Happiness
  We think of customer success in terms of empowerment and growth through self-improvement, which makes it easy to have a deep passion and investment in that success. We want to see our customers grow into mature teams that are excellent at protecting data. This is true across Aptible, not just product and support: In our marketing, we’re more likely to give away knowledge than swag. In sales, we always try to answer substantive questions and provide a roadmap for prospects, even if they don’t buy.
• Experience and Opinion Over Flexibility
  Empowerment and growth as self-improvement also deeply inform how we approach product design and support. We differentiate on legal and technical experience and bake this knowledge into our products. Aptible is not a black box. Customers use us to offload challenging problems, but they also constantly learn how to better approach these problems as a result of using our software and services.
• Leverage Over Effort                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         As a company, we aim for breadth, impact on a large scale. We want to help thousands of teams, which demands accessibility and simplification without sacrificing impact. With Gridiron, you can launch an enterprise-grade compliance program without a CISO or formal compliance experience. With Enclave, you get the benefits of highly-available, fault-tolerant infrastructure without a DevOps team. For every ounce of effort, our customers put into Aptible, we give them pounds of value back, for as long as our relationship lasts.

Our Products

Gridiron is like the missing QuickBooks + TurboTax for information security audits. It helps teams design and run security management programs that meet and exceed requirements like HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001. Customers use it to build trust with their own customers and partners and pass audits. Enclave is a container orchestration platform for deploying audit-ready apps and databases that automatically implements the security controls customers need to achieve regulatory compliance and pass audits.

What You’ll Do

• You’ll bring our design vision to life with pixel-perfect precision, acting as the technical extension of the Design Team.
• You’ll represent the voice of the user and work to constantly improve the user-friendliness of our products.
• You’ll manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.

About You: Strengths

• Product & Design Sense: You’re comfortable making product and design decisions independently.
• Problem Solving Skills: You invest time upfront in understanding the root of problems before acting.
• Communications Skills: You have experience explaining complicated concepts and drafting clear communications that demonstrate attention to detail.
• Collaboration Skills: You actively participate in Design, Technology, and Product discussions. You give and receive actionable feedback from both the Design and Engineering Teams.
• Comfort with Ambiguity: You have the ability to translate loose requirements into functional features, and apply existing design principles to new ideas. You know when to prototype unproven ideas before writing production code.
• Desire to Learn Our Tools: You seek and have the ability to learn the tools we use today, and the new tools we might use tomorrow. Knowledge of what we use today is a plus. 1) Component-Based Frontend Framework (e.g. React) 2) Web Development Basics (e.g. Javascript, HTML, CSS) 3) CSS-in-JS
• Design & Design System Experience: You have a passion for and experience working directly as a Designer or very closely with a Design Team. You have the ability to build, maintain, or use a design system.

What We Value: And hope you’ll embrace at Aptible, too.

• Commitment to the Team: We are building an exceptional team by finding exceptional people that care deeply about building exceptional teams, wherever they are.
• Commitment to Each Other: We commit to less, which means we’re able to deliver more for our colleagues and customers.
• Commitment to the Mission: We love winning, but most of all, we value getting back up and getting better at what we do. We respect grit.
• Growth Over Perfection: We help each other improve. When we give feedback, we make each other feel big, not small. This helps us take reasonable risks, which helps us make decisions and learn quickly. We fail often and early and learn from it.
• Teaching as Learning: We believe that teaching is the best way to learn and make time to share information openly.
• Constructiveness Over Commiseration: We seek to improve through self-reflection and hard work. We prefer to offer solutions to problems.
• Asking Why: We ask “why?” a lot in order to understand root causes. Asking why helps us cultivate focus and make high-quality decisions quickly.

Job Details

• Commitment: Full-Time
• Location: Anywhere
• Compensation: Competitive Salary, Equity, Health Benefits, Flexible Paid Time Off

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We prioritize diversity within our team and value different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.

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