Engineering at Greenhouse

We value a learning culture, where people are continuously improving, so we can become better humans and technologists. The entire team contributes to each other’s growth in many ways, such as:

• Regular lunch and learns where team members present on topics they are excited about
• Grassroots learning initiatives started by individuals on the team
• A yearly learning and development budget for each person to use on things like books, workshops and conferences related to technology, communication skills, management skills and more

Engineers at Greenhouse work with high autonomy on technical projects to address customer requests, mitigate and prevent performance issues, improve developer workflows, scale our services and more. Some projects that are currently in production:

• An internal high volume document processing service written in Go to convert Word documents to PDFs for use in our customer-facing applications
• Production and development applications managed via an internal deployment platform built on Kubernetes, Docker and AWS to give developers fine-grained control, allowing us to deliver stable and performant services
• Running multiple instances of Greenhouse Recruiting to keep pace with a growing customer base, enable scaling of our web application and data stores, adhere to security requirements and set ourselves up for global availability

We do our best to help people figure out how to get the most out of their time at Greenhouse. We use structured, skills-based career ladders to coach and promote people and offer opportunities to explore different career paths. Here are some of the things people have done:

• Internally, we’ve had colleagues join us from Sales, Customer Support, and Account Management and find their place on the engineering team
• Engineers have switched between being individual contributors and being managers and are supported in whatever path they choose
• Engineers have done short-term rotations on, or have moved between, various teams such as Infrastructure, Solutions, Performance, DevOps and Product Engineering
  

We use a structured interviewing process so that all candidates have a fair chance to assess Greenhouse and show us their abilities through practical exercises relevant to their role. Learn more about what to expect when you interview at Greenhouse.

Read our blog for a more detailed look into how the team operates on a day-to-day basis.