GrabCAD is hiring!

We’re looking for more people to join our development campground in Tallinn, Estonia. If you’re an experienced software engineer with a drive and interest to build a worldwide platform for CAD industry, want to work in an ambitious team and become a key player in a growing company, then get in touch now.

CTO/VP of Engineering

Location: Boston, USA

We see your role as:

  • Technology leader & decision maker – what platforms to use, which infrastructure to prefer etc.
  • Improving and leading the engineering process, setting the metrics to measure performance and quality.
  • Hiring and leading the software engineering team in Boston, US
  • Being hands-on in the development (Ruby on Rails) and working closely with the team to solve hard technical problems – transfer and host big CAD files, scaling rapidly growing web application, execute multi-platform solution and more to come
  • Part as a Management Team who work with GrabCAD Board of Directors on strategy and execution

We expect you to have:

  • Previous 3+ years of professional experience as an engineering manager, lead engineer, architect, CTO, VP of engineering.
  • Experience in developing a scalable systems, ideally based on SaaS architecture and used by large number of people.
  • Strong technical background, both writing clean code and being able to do code review.
  • Prototyping skills.
  • API design and writing experience.
  • Understanding of security standards and best practices.
  • Startup culture – how to do more with less and be part of the founding team.
  • Good leadership skills.

We also appreciate the following traits:

  • Lean startup thinking – fast iterations and quick deployment
  • Having professional charm and attracting other talents to the team.
  • Analytical and process thinking – you care about data, can use it for decision making, and can attack all development issues systematically.
  • Care for the users, their product user experience and problems.
  • Understanding of CAD, Design

What you will be part of:

  • Great team, fast pace, exciting innovation and one of the hottest Boston area startups shaking up the CAD and Design industry
  • Shaping the future design and engineering
  • Above market compensation

How to apply?

E-mail hardi@grabcad.com and lets grab a coffee.

Community/Marketing Manager

Location: Boston, USA

We see your role as:

  • You will be the voice and face of GrabCAD talking with our customers and users, getting their feedback about everything.
  • Engaging users, encouraging professionalism and collaboration between engineers.
  • Managing GrabCAD content for different channels (blog, tweets, communication for external sites), leveraging GrabCAD branding.
  • Responding to the feedback of users via aforementioned channels.
  • Choosing guest bloggers, scheduling and delivering content from interesting contributors of CAD and engineering industry.
  • Organizing sponsorships and speaking engagements for engineering related events that both GrabCAD itself organises and participates in.

We expect you to have:

  • You should preferably have held any of the positions such as Community Manager, Marketing Manager, Technical Marketer, Customer Service Manager.
  • At least 3 years of experience in marketing and customer service.
  • Very strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Knowledge about web content, social marketing and analytics tool such as WordPress, Twitter, Google Analytics etc.
  • Knowledge and experience in working with data.
  • Understanding and some experience with CAD.
  • Working with people in different time zones and geographical locations

We also appreciate the following traits:

  • Love for writing and reading and being up to date about technology innovations.
  • Having leadership skills and professional charm and being experimental and creative at the same time.
  • Networking and meeting new people is your second nature.
  • Urge and desire to make everything being currently worked on, better. You should want to make things happen.
  • Caring about customer service and excellent user experience.

What you will be part of:

  • Great team, fast pace, exciting innovation and one of the hottest Estonian/US startups shaking up the CAD industry
  • Shaping the future CAD and engineering
  • The company – salary + options for all the effort

How to apply?

Contact hardi@grabcad.com or Skype him: hardi_meybaum

Product Manager

Location: Boston, USA

We see your role as:

  • Turning company goals into specific product ideas, executing them well.
  • Being the metrics champion – measuring user engagement, analyzing activity, making data based decisions, loving graphs and charts.
  • Working with Community team developers to get good ideas implemented.

We expect you to have:

  • Background in developing professional networks and being involved in building rapidly growing communities. Professional experience  in CAD and/or design industry at any level.
  • Experience in fast prototyping – knowing the tools and apps that make product building creative and agile.
  • Quant skills, knowledge of analytics software, scripting is a big bonus.
  • Know how to prioritize.
  • Good communication skills, with people, in English and over Skype, too.
  • Business oriented thinking – what bells will be useful and what whistles turn into stickies.
  • Brilliance, as always, in everything.

Life will be great if you also have:

  • Ability to set and keep deadlines.
  • No issues with working with people in different geographical locations.
  • Genuine interest in building stuff and pushing it.

Qualifications:

  • BSc or MSc degree in Science or Business, equivalent years of work experience.
  • Project management experience, preferably in software or product development.
  • Familiarity with agile and lean practices.

What you will be part of:

  • Great team and one of the hottest Estonian/US startups
  • Shaping the future CAD and engineering
  • The company – salary + options for all the effort

How to apply?

Contact hardi@grabcad.com or Skype him: hardi_meybaum

Senior software engineer – Services (web backend)

Location: Tallinn, Estonia or Boston, USA

We see your role as:

  • Member of the services development team – responsible for all the coding and hacking.
  • Making technical decisions to build the product following agile methodology. We do a lot of user testing and little documenting, so fast iterations and prototyping is the key.
  • 70 percent of the time you will be a combination of architect, software engineer and technical product person. The rest you get to spend on investigating CAD related new technologies and being involved in general product decisions.

We expect you to have:

  • Strong development background with scalable systems.
  • Experience in developing web applications with short release cycles, daily and weekly live pushes. You should prefer agile prototyping to detailed specifications.
  • ‘Working flawlessly’ as a standard quality level for solutions. There should be very little to worry about for the QA person.
  • Business oriented thinking – what bells will be useful and what whistles turn into stickies.
  • Brilliance, in everything.

Life will be great if you also have:

  • Good communication skills, in English and over Skype, too.
  • Ability to set and keep deadlines.
  • No issues with working with people in different geographical locations.
  • Interest in building stuff be it software, hand-made kayaks, living-room furniture, space rockets…

Qualifications:

  • BSc or MSc degree in CS or equivalent years of work experience.
  • Programming experience, keywords are PHP, Ruby, AJAX, PostgreSQL, deep knowledge in any other can be an advantage as well.
  • Familiarity with analytics and user activity tracking.

What you will be part of:

  • Great team and one of the hottest Estonian/US startups
  • Shaping the future CAD and engineering
  • The company – salary + options for all the effort

How to apply?

Contact hardi@grabcad.com or Skype him: hardi_meybaum

Software engineer – Community (UI/UX)

Location: Tallinn, Estonia or Boston, USA

Your responsibilities are:

  • Developing a product that thousands of engineers and manufacturing companies around the world are using.
  • Responsible for making GrabCAD to stand out because of intuitive interface, simple functionality and well-thought user experience.
  • Being part of the Community development team – helping with coding and hacking and having your own projects, too.
  • You will get to work with both the senior backend development and the UI design people, also do cross-projects for the Service development.

We expect you to have:

  • 1-3 years of software development experience, preferably user interfaces – we do not require a long resume, but like to see you have worked on something that deeply interests you.
  • Knowledge about good interface design, user testing and tracking.
  • Knowledge of simple product development cycles, development tools and why testing is important.
  • Habit of setting and keeping deadlines.

It’s a bonus if you also have:

  • Experience in developing web applications, sometimes requiring daily and weekly live pushes.
  • Good communication skills, in English and over Skype, too.
  • No issues with working with people in different geographical locations.
  • Interest in building stuff be it software, hand-made kayaks, living-room furniture, space rockets…

Qualifications:

  • BSc or MSc degree in CS, if you are an undergraduate, then GrabCAD can be the perfect job for you, too.
  • Programming experience, keywords are Javascript, HTML, CSS

What you will be part of:

  • Great team and one of the hottest Estonian/US startups
  • Shaping the future CAD and engineering
  • The company – salary + options for all the effort

How to apply?

Contact hardi@grabcad.com or Skype him: hardi_meybaum