Release Engineer II

About Subsplash

Based in Seattle, Subsplash is an exciting award-winning team of 150+ mission-driven people who are committed to our core values of humility, innovation, and excellence. Founded in 2005, we pioneered the market with the first-ever church mobile app. Since then, we’ve been working together to build The Ultimate Engagement Platform™ for churches, Christian ministries, non-profits, and businesses around the world. We find excitement in serving our 12,000+ clients, creating impactful products, and delighting the 40 million real people who use our platform every day. Subsplash has won awards for the best mobile experience, been voted top 100 Washington's Best Workplaces by the Puget Sound Business Journal, created some of the most downloaded apps of all time, and built enterprise software for world-class brands like XBOX, Microsoft, Samsung, Expedia, and Cisco; yet, at the end of the day, we love making a lasting impact and a difference in our world.

Working at Subsplash is more than just a job; we are a team of people who are courageous, inventive, and passionate about doing meaningful work every day. Don’t take our word for it—head to Glassdoor and see for yourself!

About the Team

The Engineering Team is responsible for building and running all the products that Subsplash offers. We are a super-star team of software engineering QA, and reliability professionals creating polished experiences for our clients and end-users. The Engineering Team is responsible for the entire user experience including: Mobile Apps (end-user facing), Subsplash Giving, the Subsplash Dashboard CMS (client-facing), Web App, TV App, backend data feeds, analytics, SnapPages (website builder) and more. We serve thousands of clients, millions of end-users, and billions of individual app impressions.

About the Role

As a Release Engineer II, you will report to the Release and QA Manager. In this role you will not only execute standard release duties in the form of native mobile app submissions (new apps, app updates, and app upgrades), but also to work closely with both the Release Engineering team and other teams to identify and implement tool and process improvements to increase the timeline and quality of app submissions. 

Top 3 Key Outcomes in Year 1

• Improve existing tools and processes to increase timely releases of native codebases 
• Maintain an app submission velocity that supports our published service level agreements
• Provide release support to other teams within Subsplash, such as Sales and Support

Your Priorities

• Prioritizing app submissions above all other work, release new apps, app updates, and app upgrades on all platforms, including iOS, Android, tvOS, Amazon, and Roku
• Implement improvements to Release tools and processes to increase submission velocity
• Identify improvements to release tools and processes to increase app submission velocity
• Coordinate with the Release Support Specialist, Support Team, and Clients Operations as necessary to work through app submission blockers and rejections

Qualifications

• Intermediate level knowledge of native mobile apps, such as iOS and Android, and the various challenges with each (i.e. fragmentation and provisioning)
• Hands-on experience with one or more coding or scripting languages; Go or Elixir preferred 
• Intermediate level knowledge of web systems, including various browsers and the difference between native and mobile
• Working knowledge of the software development life cycle and the difference between agile and waterfall methodologies

You are…

• Intuitive: You possess a strong instinct about how software is supposed to work and where to track down defects.
• A learner: You are always striving to be dependable, flexible, humble, teachable, proactive, and smart.
• A communicator: You possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Servant-hearted: Ability to help others get a lot of work done by being their eyes and ears, hands and feet.
• Organized: You are able to enjoy a rapidly changing environment requiring flexibility and self-discipline.

Benefits

Generous Paid Time Off, Medical Coverage, Dental Coverage, Vision Coverage, 401k (with employer match), Free Smoothies and Snacks, Optional Work-from-home Thursday, Public Transportation Subsidy. This position is classified as Full-time/Exempt and therefore not eligible for overtime pay.

Employment with Subsplash is contingent upon satisfactory proof of employee’s right to work in the U.S., as required by law and upon completion of a basic background check and; Employment with Subsplash is considered “at will,” meaning that either the company or the employee may terminate the employment relationship at any time without cause or notice.