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Cake is the world's largest online platform for navigating death, helping 40 million people a year with end-of-life planning and bereavement.
We are an early-stage, venture-backed startup solving a big problem that impacts every human being.
Read more about why you should work at Cake, or contact us at hiring@joincake.com.
Cake (joincake.com) is the world’s largest digital platform for end-of-life planning and post-loss support, serving more than 35 million people every year and working with leading healthcare, financial services, and insurance companies.
Every single person has to deal with death, for both themselves and their loved ones, and we are making that process kinder and more human-centered so that the focus can be on honoring life. We are a mission-oriented, data-driven technology team backed by venture investors including AARP, Pillar, GoAhead Ventures, and others.
All our full-time roles come with great benefits, including:
- Healthcare
- FSA
- Dental/Vision
- 401(k)
- Flexible Hours
- Remote Work
- Unlimited PTO
- Parental Leave
- Bereavement Leave
- Home Office Stipend
- Anti-Racism Stipend
- Wellness Stipend
- Health Advocate
- Teledoc
- Talkspace
Full-Time Positions
CTO
$180k – $240k per year, 0.5% – 3.0% equity
This is a dream opportunity for an empathetic leader to help lead the transition of the funeral industry from a mostly offline industry to one that enables people to engage online and have a better experience This person will lead our team of developers and be a valuable part of the C-suite, contributing to company strategy.
Ideal candidate is in commuting distance from Boston area and has previous experience working in a venture-backed consumer technology startup. This is a mostly virtual/work-from-home (WFH) role with an expectation of meeting with the C-suite in person 1/week.
You are:
- Located within commuting distance of Boston, MA for weekly in-person meetings.
- Comfortable with ambiguity
- Excited to work in a small team.
- Effective and productive in a remote-first environment. (We're headquartered in Boston, but most of the team is distributed, with all Devs located on the East Coast)
- An emotionally intelligent leader.
- A learner and a great listener. You view feedback as a way to grow.
- Interested in understanding the business objectives and using those to guide technical strategy
- Fired up to get in on the ground floor of a once-in-a-generation technology startup.
- Hands on. Once you’ve set the strategy, you don’t mind rolling up your sleeves to execute as needed.
- Experienced in leading small, close-knit development teams, specifically at in an early-stage, venture-backed technology startup.
You will:
- Be responsible for making joincake.com fast, reliable and secure
- Continuously plan to improve our tooling and automation
- Be part of the Leadership team
- Work closely with CEO & CMO to set company strategy
- Improve website performance
- Work with the Product team to find the best way to implement new features, and be able to weigh long-term benefits vs. short-term needs
- Be able to define the overall technical strategy of the product
- Be able to provide a clear overview of the technical capabilities of the platform to Product and Stakeholders, and engage in the planning process for new features as needed
- Lead the Dev Team
- Provide team with overall direction and communicate new strategies and ideas
- Empower team members to grow their careers in accordance with their goals and the needs of the company, including 1:1s and quarterly reviews for your team
- Work with C-suite to define salaries, bonuses and benefits for your team, and determine how to grow your team
- Plan the overall architecture and future technical direction of the platform.
Nice to have:
- Experience scaling teams from Seed to A and beyond.
- AI/ML experience
- Experience writing code in .NET and/or React
- System Operations (Azure)
- Security and Compliance
- Dev Ops
- Internal IT (Microsoft 365)
Team Lead/Developer (.NET/Azure)
$140k – $210k per year, 0.05% – 1.5% equity
We are looking for someone with a player/coach mentality to join our Development Team. This is a great opportunity for someone with CTO and engineering leadership aspirations to take the next step in their career. You should have experience both as an individual contributor as well as a manager and leader. You will be the main counterpart to our Senior .NET Developer and the team lead for our Dev Team (2 FE, 1 BE), as well as a valuable contributor to Cake’s Leadership Team.
Ideal candidate is in commuting distance from Boston area and has previous experience experience in software engineering with .NET Core and Azure; ideally in an early-stage, venture-backed consumer technology startup. This is a mostly virtual/work-from-home (WFH) role with an expectation of meeting with the C-suite in person 3-4 times/month
Responsibilities:
- Planning the overall architecture and future technical direction of the platform. Be able to define and communicate the overall technical strategy of the product.
- Be responsible for making joincake.com fast, reliable, and secure. Collaborate with dev team to identify ways to improve tooling, automation and site performance.
- Lead and mentor our front end and back end developers, keeping them informed on changes and company strategy.
- Empower team members to grow their careers in accordance with their goals and the needs of the company, including 1:1s and quarterly reviews for your team
- Work with C-suite to define salaries, bonuses and benefits for your team
- Excellent communication skills, with an ability to provide clear overviews of the technical capabilities of the platform to Product and Stakeholders, and engage in the planning process for new features as needed
- Contribute to our Leadership team:
- Work closely with CEO, CMO, and Director of Product to set and execute company strategy
- Work with the Product team to find the best way to implement new features, and be able to weigh long-term benefits vs. short-term needs
You are:
- Someone with 5+ years of experience in Microsoft Azure and .NET
- Effective and productive in a remote-first environment. (We're headquartered in Boston, but most of the team is distributed, with all Devs located on the East Coast)
- Located within commuting distance of Boston, MA for in-person meetings with Product Manager and/or C-suite
- Hands on. Once you’ve set the strategy, you don’t mind rolling up your sleeves to code or read documentation.
- Excited to work in a small, close-knit team. This role requires experience in leading small groups, specifically in an early-stage, venture-backed technology startup.
- An emotionally intelligent leader who practices empathy when managing.
- A learner and a great listener. You view feedback as a way to grow.
- Interested in understanding the business objectives and using those to guide technical strategy
- Fired up to get in on the ground floor of a once-in-a-generation technology startup.
- Comfortable with ambiguity
Nice to have:
- Engineering managing experience.
- Experience scaling teams from Seed to Series A and beyond.
- AI/ML experience
- Experience writing code in React
- Security and Compliance
- Dev Ops
- Internal IT (Microsoft 365)
Lead .NET Developer (Azure/Infrastructure)
$140k – $180k per year, 0.05% – 1.5% equity
We are looking for an experienced .NET Developer with Microsoft Azure experience to join our team. In this role you will be responsible for creating new backend code (C#/ASP.NET), maintaining and optimizing our data structures (SQL/EF) as well as owning our Azure infrastructure (AppServices, SQL, AppInsights, etc). You will also be responsible for the overall architecture of the application. As we are a small team, there is ample opportunity for growth into leadership.
Responsibilities:
- Be part of the development team and contribute code changes to our backend code during normal sprint cycles
- Maintain and grow our Azure and 3rd party service infrastructure as needed
- Participate in weekly sprint check-ins and work with Product Management to right-size tasks in your area
- Create/maintain a scalable application architecture
- Optimize backend infrastructure (code, data structure and services) when you see the opportunity to do so
- Make sure our site is fast, secure and reliable
You have:
- 5+ years in .NET (ASP.NET/C# preferred)
- 5+ years of working with Azure services
- 5+ years experience with SQL(like) databases
- Experience running public-facing website with lots of traffic/users
- The ability to create and maintain a fast and secure tech stack
Nice to have:
- A desire to grow into a leadership role (technical, people, or both)
- Experience with EntityFramework and ASP.NET Identity
- Azure specific knowledge, esp. Application Insights, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Factory
- Experience with DevOps, CI/CD
- ML/AI
- Large-scale infrastructure (CDN/geo distribution)
- Website security
- Some experience in IT
Product Lead/ Director of Product
$120k – $200k per year, 0.0% – 0.5% equity
This is a rare opportunity for an empathetic product leader to help build a meaningful consumer tech product and consumer brand that has the potential to positively impact every single person in the world.
Get in on the ground floor at a high-growth company where you will have direct and positive impact on people navigating end of life topics.
A significant part of your job will be to lead your team in deeply understanding the problems we need to solve for our users through qualitative and quantitative research and working hands-on with cross-functional teams to create solutions that deliver value to our customers.
Your role:
- Work closely with leadership to take charge of product development
- Drive the overall product strategy and vision for Cake to meet business goals including high-level product planning, roadmaps, etc.
- Collaborate with your partners to set KPIs, OKRs, and hypotheses for how to best execute the strategy, and the tactics best suited to validate those hypotheses
- Work with data, engineering, and design teams to improve our product, test different flows, and conduct user research, directly supporting with execution tasks when needed
- Talk to customers, conduct user research and work with data/engineering to interpret data
- Test different flows, set up A/B tests and identify opportunities for improvement
- Work with the engineering manager to ensure effective product delivery
- Work cross functionally with Business Development and Marketing teams
You are:
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to pivot as you learn, leading a team throughout this process
- Effective and productive in a remote-first environment. (We're headquartered in Boston. You'll need to be reachable during EST working hours.)
- An emotionally intelligent leader--you can drive strategy and get the team to buy in.
- A learner and a great listener. You view feedback as a way to grow.
- Good at taking big picture ideas and breaking them down to process: you can translate strategy and vision into more detailed execution.
- Fired up to get in on the ground floor of a fast-growing technology startup.
- Curious. You want to test a million things quickly and act on them..
- Hands on. Once you’ve set the strategy, you don’t mind rolling up your sleeves to execute.
You have:
- 6-8 years in technical product management roles
- 2+ years in an early-stage, venture-backed technology startup
- A proven track record building products the ground up
- Experience building consumer-facing technology products
- The ability to work with leadership / founders
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Superior organizational skills with the ability to prioritize flexibly and work efficiently
Nice to have:
- Experience collaborating directly with founders/leadership
- Passion for improving the end-of-life experience for people
- Experience growing infrequent products (as opposed to those with DAU or MAU)
- A background in UX research, strategy or management
Product Designer (UI/UX Designer)
$70k – $130k per year, 0.0% – 0.1% equity
We are seeking a full-time User Experience Designer to help us change the way people engage with death and end-of-life planning. This is a challenging topic for most people, so we are making it more human and approachable. This is an amazing opportunity to re-brand death.
The ideal candidate will be adept at translating customer and business needs into innovative well-crafted products. You know how to create product experiences exude empathy and help users to accomplish their goals in the most elegant and enjoyable way possible. Working closely with our Product Manager, you will follow an iterative design process to generate a slick and modern web app with engaging user interfaces that drive key business outcomes and user value. We’re a tight-knit team that values contributors that are curious, passionate, humble, and proactive. If you’re interested in helping us solve a big problem, read on!
- Lead the UX design of our customer-facing products including our numerous tools for navigating loss and end-of-life planning.
- Focus on creating an engaging and intuitive user experience and rigorously testing your work via usability testing.
- Create clean and descriptive wireframes and low to mid fidelity prototypes to be handed off to developers.
- Draft functional/visual specs and flow charts to describe new features
- Conduct user interviews, including recruitment and writing moderation guides
- Work closely with our product and development team to help provide customers with a clear, simple experience within a space that’s historically emotional and hard to navigate.
- Contribute to a multidisciplinary team that can include developers, product managers, marketers, and other stakeholders.
- This would be a remote role as we are a fully distributed team.
- Visual design skills are a plus! We strive to follow our branding guidelines and reuse existing design patterns.
- You have a recent portfolio that can be shared and reviewed. We'd like to see examples of prototypes, sketches and prioritization exercises
- You’re proficient in prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch or Adobe XD
- You are passionate about clearly communicating and simplifying complex information through the power of thoughtful, empathetic design.
- You love listening to the user and are empathic to their needs
- Experience in product design and web design, specifically designing mobile-responsive web applications.
- You are positive, creative, curious, and aren’t afraid to ask a lot of questions.
- Collaboration is exciting to you, and you enjoy understanding the perspectives of others
- You’re dedicated to your craft and want to work amongst a team that will inspire you daily.
- You can take candid feedback well and are looking to grow your skillsets.
- You are OK with multi-tasking and can synthesize multiple perspectives to get the most important thing done.
- You are detail oriented and organized in your process.
- You love listening to customers, discussing strategy with colleagues, but also diving into the weeds.
- You view problems holistically while having a pragmatic and iterative approach to getting to the right solution.
Senior Data Analyst
$100k – $180k per year, 0.0% – 0.3% equity
We are seeking a Senior Data Analyst to help us change the way people engage with death and end-of-life planning. This is a challenging topic for most people, so we are making it more human and approachable. This is an amazing opportunity to re-brand death.
The ideal candidate will have experience collecting and analyzing data to provide valuable information for decision-making. Working closely with our CEO, CMO, and the Product team, you will help analyze datasets and present your findings to the team.
- Query and analyze data from all areas of our company, compiling data from multiple sources
- Create and maintain PowerBI data models and reports
- Work closely with our product and operations teams to create and manage internal and client-facing data dashboards
- Support operations by analyzing data for valuable trends and insights
- Support product by setting up dashboards to monitor key metrics and analyze data to identify user trends and new opportunities for improvement
- Perform statistical analysis of data, prepare reports, and present findings to the team in easy-to-understand formats
- Data-driven with strong analytical skills
- Great at taking complex information and presenting it in easy-to-understand formats
- Knowledge of PowerBI (or transferrable skillset, e.g. Tableau)
- Excellent Excel skills
- Experience with relational data structures
- Proficiency with SQL or similar query language (bonus points if you know Kusto)
Senior Frontend Developer (React)
$100k – $130k per year, 0.0% – 0.1% equity
This posting is for the role of Front End Developer at Cake. You'll join our small team of developers and help us build the next iteration of our web application.
Our platform is built using technologies including HTML, CSS, React, .NET 5, SQL, and Azure. We're a close-knit team that works remote but stays in touch throughout the day via Teams.
- Implementing provided layout and designs in HTML, CSS (SCSS) and JS (React).
- Solid understanding of React architecture and best practices – hooks, context, Redux, functional components
- Creating and maintaining reusable React components that we use to build our platform. Writing readable and efficient React and ES6 JS code
- Experience with package bundlers and build tools such as Webpack, Gulp, Vite, etc
- Experience in UI/UX design is helpful as you may occasionally be asked to make on-the-fly decisions that reflect the needs of the personas we build for.
- Creating highly performant and responsive webpages. We have a growing mobile audience and experience in responsive web design is a must.
- Understanding of accessibility and 508 compliance workflow and principles
- Communicating with your team throughout the day and help your teammates out as needed. We use chat and video conferencing to communicate.
- Work closely with our Product Team to provide solutions and estimates. We work in an Agile way and report on progress weekly.
- 5+ years of professional CSS and JS development experience, ideally working on high-traffic websites and/or applications.
- Proficiency with a modern JavaScript framework such as React (preferred), Angular or Vue.
- The ability to work well in small teams and with minimal supervision, you're an independent self-starter
- You are flexible and easily adapt to new challenges. We're at a stage where we frequently launch experiments, so what you’ll be working on may change from week to week.
- Experience working in early-stage, venture-backed startups
- An interest in working in healthcare or the end-of-life care space. While we don’t believe in filling your day with meetings, we value the voice of each person on our team and developers will be expected to participate in some ideation and planning.
- Styled components
- CSS frameworks, e.g. – bootstrap, foundation, tailwind
- Storybook
- SSR w/React
- Backend language like C#
- Testing experience
Intern Positions
Business Development Intern
$15/hour
We are seeking someone with great communication and organizational skills to assist our team with Business Development initiatives. Your work will have a direct impact on our business and you will gain valuable experience for your career.
As a tight-knit team, we value contributors who are curious, passionate, humble, and proactive. If you’re interested in helping us solve a fundamental human need while gaining experience of what it’s like to work at a technology startup, read on!
Software Development Intern
$15/hour
We are looking for an intern to join our development team for a few months. Your work will have a direct impact on our business and you will gain valuable experience for your career.
As a tight-knit team, we value contributors who are curious, passionate, humble, and proactive. If you’re interested in helping us solve a fundamental human need while gaining experience of what it’s like to work at a technology startup, read on!
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