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Ahrefs builds a marketing data platform for SEO and AI-era discovery, covering backlink analysis, keyword research, rank tracking, and brand visibility. Unlike most tools in the category, it runs its own internet-scale crawler and index rather than renting data, and even built an independent search engine, Yep. Founded in 2010, bootstrapped, and profitable with no funding rounds.

Ahrefs's Remote Policy

Ahrefs publishes no company-wide remote policy on ahrefs.com/jobs or ahrefs.com/careers. The strongest statement in their own words appears inside a single job description: "We're bootstrapped, profitable, multinational, and fully remote. Our culture is fast-moving, low-ego, and built on smart decisions and ownership." (Events Marketing Executive job description). Scope matters: that is one role's copy, not a stated company policy, and other roles on the same board are anchored to Singapore, Palo Alto, Cambridge MA, or Acton MA, including one with a daily in-person requirement. Treat remote availability as role-by-role and confirm it for the specific job you are applying to. Source: https://ahrefs.com/jobs

Benefits & Perks

Health & Wellness

1

Health Insurance

Ahrefs provides healthcare benefits for its US-based roles.

Financial

2

401(k) / Retirement Plan

US employees have access to a 401(k) retirement plan.

Performance Bonus

Ahrefs offers a bonus structure alongside base salary in its US roles.

Time Off

2

Unlimited PTO

Ahrefs runs a flexible vacation policy with no set day cap.

Flexible Hours

Flexible working hours accommodate different lifestyles and life stages, and Ahrefs describes itself as an async company.

Remote & Equipment

3

Home Office Stipend

Remote employees receive a budget to equip their home office with current gear for their role.

Company Equipment

Office-based staff work from a contemporary workspace with company-provided hardware and software. The US video team is additionally supplied with production equipment, with more available on request.

Company Offsites / Retreats

Ahrefs runs an annual company-wide retreat, a week of skiing together, plus a Connect Program giving employees two weeks a year in the Singapore or Palo Alto office. Remote staff also make an annual visit to the Singapore HQ.

Professional Growth

2

Conference Attendance

Ahrefs funds attendance at conferences and seminars that support career development, and covers travel and accommodation for marketing conferences worldwide.

Learning & Development Budget

A learning and development budget supports professional growth, with travel and accommodation for industry conferences as its main use.

Culture & Perks

1

Paid Trial

Ahrefs pays candidates for the work-assignment stage of its hiring process, an independent real-world task that follows the interviews.

Tech Stack

JavaScript & Libraries

JavaScript
React
Emotion
Highcharts
Moment.js
Webpack
jQuery
Bootstrap

Frameworks

Ocaml
Reasonml
Rust
Cpp
Java
Kotlin
Swift
Objective C

Databases

Elasticsearch
Custom Distributed Kv Store

Infrastructure

Amazon Ec2
Linux
Debian
Puppet
Git
GitHub
Cloudflare
Amazon Cloudfront

Web Servers

NGINX

CMS & Content

WordPress

Analytics & Monitoring

Elk Stack
Logstash
Kibana
New Relic
Mixpanel
Matomo
Google Analytics
Segment

Payments

Stripe
PayPal

Integrations

Okta
Google Recaptcha
Rippling
Greenhouse
Slack
Zoom
Intercom
Livechat
68 technologies detected

Why Ahrefs

The infrastructure is the company. Ahrefs runs a crawler across the web 24/7 and stores the results in a custom petabyte-scale distributed key-value store holding roughly 25 petabytes of live data: trillions of backlinks, trillions of HTML snapshots, and billions of pages in the content index. The backend is written mostly in OCaml with some C++, the frontend in ReasonML. That is a deliberate bet, not an accident of history. The engineering team describes itself as worshipping functional languages and static typing, leaning hard on code generation and meta-programming, and following DRY and KISS. The motto printed across the careers surface is "first do it, then do it right, then do it better." They rely heavily on open source and publish their own work at github.com/ahrefs.

The org chart is unusual too. There is no conventional product manager role: product designers own PM, design, and leadership for their area. Teams are lean, hierarchy is flat, and the company describes itself as low-ego and offbeat. Hiring reflects the same preference for substance over ceremony. The interview loop is application, recruiter screen, take-home task, then an unstructured technical discussion with no LeetCode, coding puzzles, or whiteboard exercises. Some roles pay you for the work assignment stage. Because Ahrefs is bootstrapped and profitable, there is no investor clock setting the roadmap.

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