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# Senior Backend Developer (Ruby)\nAt DBL we're looking for a Senior Backend Developer (Ruby) to join our team.\n\n## About the job\nWe are a remote-first company builder working in the aviation and maritime industries. We're currently hiring for a Tech Lead and a full-stack developer for a new SaaS product which will help ship owners optimize their emissions profile under various new regulations.\n\nAs a senior developer, you are someone who can see projects through from beginning to end, coach others, and self-manage. We’re looking for an eager person who can bring our team to the next level with their technical knowledge, people skills, and real-world experience.\n\nOn the technical side, we are looking for extensive experience building APIs (we use Ruby) and complex UIs (we use TypeScript and Vue/React). Experience with DevOps (AWS services, Terraform) is a plus but not required.\n\n\n## The Stack\n* Ruby and Sorbet as a backend language\n* Postgres, Redis\n* Amazon Web Services (RDS, ECS/Fargate, Cloudwatch)\n* Bonus: TypeScript, Vue or React, Tailwind CSS for frontend\n* Bonus: Experience building data pipelines\n\n## How we work\n* Our biweekly sprint planning call is our only regular meeting\n* For complex features, write a design doc before coding\n* All code goes through code review, reviews are split out evenly across the team\n* A dedicated "runner" fields ad-hoc requests and bug reports each week, so that everyone else can focus\n* We use Tuple for pair programming\n\n## About you\n### Technical Skills & Experience\n* You've built complex apps in a Ruby on Rails + modern frontend stack before, with a codebase optimized for performance and scale\n* You've designed & shipped large applications with many components and data structures\n* You have a proven ability to design interfaces that stand the test of time, showing anticipation of future product changes\n* You have experience integrating complex third party APIs\n\n### Personality\n* You are able to handle ambiguity, and can push projects forward even when there is not a clear best path\n* You see things through from start to finish\n* You can manage yourself but you also work well with others\n* Fluent English and an excellent communicator\n \n\nPlease mention the word **ADMIRING** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMDA=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $90,000 — $130,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nwithin ±3 hours of CET

**About Area**\n\nArea is the leading (pun intended) lead management automation software for the property industry. We provide Software as a Service (SaaS) that manages enquiries from multiple sources, self-service tools for consumers and detailed audit reporting for directors and managers of estate agencies.\n\nArea was founded in 2015 by experienced estate agents and seasoned technology veterans. We have now processed almost a million enquiries and are the beating heart of hundreds of leading estate agents.\n\nWe partner with other leading companies in the property technology space such as Reapit, Moneypenny, Kerfuffle and Relocation Agent Network to create integrations that simplify and modernise estate agencies.\n\n**Senior Rails Developer**\n\nArea is essentially a type of CRM system for estate agents that is used to manage and engage with consumers. Our software sits between the agency's website, property portals and other CRM systems. Our services are built in Ruby on Rails and run on AWS. Almost 500,000 consumers engage with the Area platform each year so you’ll be working on a well-established product and interacting with an experienced management and product team. \n\n**The Role**\n\nWe are looking for a solid Rails developer with experience in DevOps and an interest in building B2B2C software with a focus on the end-user. This is very much a get your hand's dirty startup role where you will be able to take ownership and work in an agile fashion. We’re a remote-first company that’s flexible with working schedules, but we’re all about getting things done. We value working smarter rather than simply working harder or longer. We’ll try to meet up a few times a year but other than that you can work from anywhere +/- 5 hours time difference so we can have some overlap with you.\n\n**Must Haves**\n\n- Able to speak and write in English (intermediate to advanced)\n- A strong understanding of Ruby on Rails (5.X specifically)\n- At least 3 years commercial experience working with Rails \n- At least basic knowledge of deploying and monitoring production systems in Amazon AWS\n- Solid understanding of relational databases (we use Postgresql)\n- A proactive and positive team-based approach to investigating and resolving issues on a live system\n- Strong testing skills ideally with RSpec\n- Self-motivated and able to manage own workload\n- Experience working in remote and/or startup teams\n\n**Nice To Haves**\n\n- Experience with UX, UI and product development\n- Experience with third-party services like Twilio, Pusher, Sendgrid, Redis, Papertrail, Cloud66\n\n**The Benefits**\n\nArea is committed to fostering an inclusive and positive working environment, with lots of opportunities to engage with your colleagues, albeit remotely most of the time. You’ll also have the opportunity to influence the business and be part of a fast-moving startup with continuous growth opportunities.\n- Competitive salaries without the need to work in an office or commute\n- A coworking space membership so you can focus on your work\n- An equipment allowance (we like Macs) so you have the best tools\n- A skills development budget (e.g. courses or books) to keep you sharp\n- Flexible holiday allowance and personal days as required\n\nBy sending us your application you agree to us using your personal data for recruitment purposes. We are storing this data in our recruitment software, which is fully compliant with GDPR/EU data protection laws. If you are unsuccessful in your application for this role, we may keep your details on file so that we can get in touch with you about other suitable vacancies which may be of interest in the future. If you would rather we did not keep your details on file for this, please let us know. \n\nPlease mention the words **MOBILE ACTRESS PRISON** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMDA=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $60,000 — $90,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\nTaxJar is the leading technology solution for busy eCommerce sellers to manage sales tax and is trusted by more than 20,000 businesses. \n\nWe know sales tax isn't fun for anyone, so we're determined to ease the burden with an exceptional customer experience. To achieve this, we provide the same incredible quality of life for our team members as we do for our customers by creating a professional, unique, award-winning place to work. We have many different backgrounds and lifestyles, and everything we do is guided by our core values:\n\n\n* We do the right thing for our customers\n\n* We're a team, built on trust\n\n* We're proud to be remote\n\n* We're in control of our own destiny\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’re a happy team and we all really love what we do. We’re fast-growing, fully-distributed, talented, and driven. We live all across the US, working from our homes, local libraries, co-working spaces, airstreams - pretty much anywhere we can and do accomplish great work. We've created a space where high-achievers can succeed, but are also safe to fail. We're profitable and focused on growing TaxJar sustainably, and we believe a diverse team can create better solutions for our customers.\n\nWe’re looking for people who:\n\n\n* Are based in the US\n\n* Value working remotely\n\n* Excel at communication and collaboration\n\n* Highly value working with people they like and respect\n\n* Are open and accountable\n\n* Are confident with their skills and who love being part of a team (we’re peers here, no egos please) but are also comfortable working asynchronously\n\n* Want to make a positive impact at TaxJar and who aren’t afraid to fail\n\n\n\n\nWe have an immediate opening for a Senior Software Engineer who wants to help us make e-commerce easier for everyone. We want you to join one of our engineering delivery teams and help us build a product our customers love. The product engineering team at TaxJar is solving complex problems on a daily basis, supporting our growing customer base and creating new solutions in a complex domain. We deal with large datasets, intricate sales tax rules, and automating complicated processes for thousands of business customers.\n\nAs a Senior Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails) for TaxJar you will:\n\n\n* Be challenged to solve new problems\n\n* Be comfortable within a mature Rails codebase and have an openness to Elixir\n\n* Take lead role in breaking large projects down into deliverable pieces \n\n* Maintain clear and accurate documentation\n\n* Consider the performance impacts of your technical choices\n\n* Drive architectural decisions and refactors\n\n* Review and test your teammates’ pull requests\n\n* Contribute to and maintain our existing Rspec test suites\n\n* Maintain and update our core SaaS business logic\n\n* Mentor a team around standards, design, and best practices\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRequirements:\n\n\n* 5 - 8 years experience with Ruby on Rails and a test framework such as RSpec\n\n* 3 - 5 years of experience with backend database skills\n\n* Ability to own development tasks from assignment through to production\n\n* Agile, humble, trustworthy, and a team player\n\n* Rapid learner who thrives in a fast-paced and demanding environment\n\n* Passion for building simple and intuitive solutions for complex problems in e-commerce\n\n* Prior SaaS development, API development or similar app dev experience\n\n* Excel at written and verbal remote communication (chat, video, email, etc)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBenefits:\n\n\n* Excellent health, vision and dental benefits\n\n* Flexible vacation\n\n* Company holidays, plus mandatory Birthday holiday\n\n* 12 weeks paid parental leave for all employees\n\n* 4 hours volunteer time per month\n\n* Biannual all-company in person summits (paid for by us, of course!)\n\n* $250 Home office stipend\n\n* 401k Plan\n\n* Equity in a profitable company\n\n* Monthly perks reimbursement ($100 a month to appreciate your teammates, Netflix, Amazon Prime, gym membership, home internet etc.)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease visit www.TaxJar.com/jobs for a full list of our amazing benefits for full-time employees, and to learn more about our values and how we work. You can learn more about our hiring process here.\n\nIf you send us a referral for someone who may be a great candidate for this role, we'll pay you $1,000 if we hire them. To refer someone, please email their full name to [email protected] and add “Candidate Referral - [Job Title]” to the subject line once the individual has applied for a role. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Ruby, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, Amazon, API, Senior, Sales, SaaS, Backend and Ecommerce jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nABOUT WORKBAR:\n\nWorkbar is a growing network of coworking locations in Greater Boston connected through a proprietary technology platform. We are a collection of vibrant and buzzing workspaces shared by a diverse community of professionals ranging from start-ups to small businesses to enterprise companies. What results is an inspiring, high-energy place to work and collaborate.\n\nWe are leading the way on defining how workspace is purchased and functions in today’s mobile, on-demand economy - for individuals and large companies alike. Workbar is accelerating its expansion within New England and into new markets. We are headquartered directly across from South Station, with many locations throughout the Greater Boston region.\n\n Visit www.workbar.com to learn more.\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nWorkbar is seeking a full-stack Rails developer to work with our software team in designing, building, testing, and operationalizing Workbar’s home grown software platform.  The platform, known as Wobbe, is the backbone that 1) helps our members make the most of their Workbar experience through functional use and networking tools, while also 2) enabling facility operators to run their spaces with ease.\n\nThe ideal candidate will be flexible and have start up experience.\n\n Responsibilities:\n\nWork with the current Web Development team to:\n\n\n* \n\n\n* Create best practice guidelines and managing the team to those standards\n\n* Pair with developers to collaborate on feature development\n\n* Participate in code reviews to help the team learn from one another\n\n* Develop\n\n\n\n\n\n* React to customer and business requests by continually evolving our product\n\n* Improve the performance, scalability, and security of our production systems\n\n* Automate our infrastructure and software delivery lifecycle\n\n* Develop outstanding code that delivers what the business is looking for\n\n\n\n\n\n ABOUT YOU:\n\nTechnical Skills\n\nArchitecture. You are comfortable working with your team to craft a design: choosing the appropriate technology – either built in-house or off-the-shelf for integration - and designing a solution that answers the problems at hand while staying within constraints. You possess an understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable and secure application.\n\nCoding. We’re looking for a breadth of experience including:\n\n\n* 5+ years of professional web development experience using Ruby on Rails\n\n* Experience with TDD best practices, particularly using Rspec and Capybara\n\n* Solid understanding of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS with a particular emphasis on modern front-end frameworks like Stimulus, Vue, or React\n\n* Experience with commercial software development. You have built and supported products that were sold, shipped, and supported.\n\n* Proficiency with SQL and relational databases\n\n* Knowledge of payment platforms is a big plus\n\n* Road map development experience\n\n\n\n\n DevOps. Every developer at Workbar is responsible for the stability, reliability, and security of the code they ship and the platform it runs on. You should feel at home working with Amazon Web Services, particularly EC2, RDS, and S3.\n\nSoft Skills\n\nYou are flexible, open-minded, and love a challenge. You enjoy working with a team to help each other to improve and grow.  You are open to constructive criticism and are comfortable giving it. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Ruby, Full Stack, Executive, Developer, Digital Nomad, Amazon and CSS jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

We have a fast growing SAAS tool for e-commerce sellers.\nWe have been growing 15 to 20% month to month.\n\nBut, we have some growing pains. \n\nWe want to build EXCITING new features, but first...\nWe do need to pause and re-factor the existing code for 2 to 3 months before we can move onto new feature development.\nAre you willing to do this?\n\nWe need a Great and Experienced Ruby on Rails Senior Developer / Tech Lead.\n\nTasks:\nInitially you need to come in and do a detailed code review\nMap out areas for performance improvement for scale\nAction those areas, fix the database schema, refactor code for Best Practices\nHelp with improving our Development Project Management Process\nResolve customer issues for 2 to 3 months to fix underlying problems\nMap out new features from a technical perspective using Business Requirements\nBuild AMAZING new features for our customers\n\n\nPlease tell me your availability and rate.\n\nMonthly FULL TIME (we would need you 100% committed, no other side projects).\nREMOTE with communication via Slack\nWe can do a 3 month to 12 month contract (with 3 month trial period).\n\nPlease tell me your full time rate ($X / Calendar Month)\nPlease send me your CV.\n\nSTACK:\nUbuntu\nNginx\nRuby/Rails\nMySQL\n\nPlease answer in detail:\n\n• Are you able and willing to refactor code for 1 to 2 months to fix the old problems, then start to build new features?\n• Do you have any references?\n• What have you been working on (detail) the last 12 months)?\nAre you able to guide junior and mid developers to use best practice and do code reviews prior to deployment?\n• Have you created specifications for new features using Customer Stories and Business Cases?\n• Have you lead any tech teams? How many staff?\n• What process/system do you think is best and why? e.g. Agile / Waterfall\n• Do you have any experience with Ecommerce software or Amazon (for selling Physical products)?\n• Are you able to see possible problems with features and provide guidance on the best implementation from a tech perspective?\n• Do you like working in a team (remotely)?\n\nYou would need to be 100% focus and dedicated to our project whilst working with us, and be able to commit for a minimum 3 months.\n\nThank you! \n\nPlease mention the words **WALL OFF CHRONIC** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMDA=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, CSS, Ruby, Senior, jQuery, Nginx, Developer, Digital Nomad, Amazon, Junior, SaaS and Ecommerce jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $125,000/year\n

TRENIQ (www.treniq.com), an early stage start-up, is a social commerce platform in the home furnishing segment.\n\nOur vision is to create a trusted community, for designers to showcase and consumers to discover, trendy and unique products from across the world. \n\nWe are looking for a young, passionate Ruby / Rails Developer and a technology evangelist to be a part of our team at trenq.com, a London based social platform. \n\nThis opportunity brings with it learning’s and innovation in the areas of e-commerce, big data (visual analytics), AR and semantic search.\n\nWe are a highly motivated, tech-enthusiastic team and you will take a lead role in all the development activities within the company. You will also be one of the founding members of the organisation. \n\nKey Skills\n\n• Strong ruby and rails experience \n• Working with JavaScript, JQuery, ImageMagick, Spree and related technologies\n• Experience with RESTful services and API’s\n• Knowledge of deployment using Capistrano\n• Good understand of OO concepts and HTTP protocol \n• Proficient with Unix based systems. Managing processes, cron jobs and deploying to servers\n• Experience with automated unit testing \n\nKey Competencies & Responsibilities\n\n• Burning passion for development \n• A technical guru who is looking to push the boundaries of innovation and create new and amazing products\n• Ability to work well within a team \n• Keen to learn new technologies\n\n\nDesirable experience \n\nWhilst the below skills are not mandatory, any experience is a plus\n\n• Ansible & Spree commerce\n• Cloud hosting services like Amazon & Rackpsace\n• Mobile development\n• E-commerce and/or data analytics experience\n\nThe offer\n\nJoin an amazing start-up and grow with us. Work with an international brand, a fun team and get the chance to travel and showcase your work worldwide. You will be a founding member of Treniq. \n\nLocation: Flexible\n\nSalary is dependent of skills and experience. Please send your cv or drop us a line at [email protected]\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n $10,000 — $15,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nLondon