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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 (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjU=). 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

\nOpportunity\n\nWe're ANKA, an African SAAS helping thousand of sellers grow their sales globally through our platform. Our sellers earned more than 15 000 000 € from customers in +170 countries to this day with our platform.\n\nWe are big and growing fast! Monthly, 1.3M € over 30k transactions are processed and 10k shipments weighing a total of 10 tons is made by our sellers.\n\nOur team of 20 people is 100% remote, diverse, experienced and spread around the globe. Our truly global business is supported by a profitable company which raised over 2M € from experienced and renowned investors.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe're looking for a Software Engineer who want to join a 100% remote team.\n\nYou'll be working on great projects such as a new flutter mobile app backed by a Rails 6 API for our new SAAS offering ANKA and the Afrikrea Marketplace itself. This is an excellent opportunity to join an experienced and ambitious team in a fast-growing company.\n\nSo if you’re a Senior Engineer wondering where you would have the maximum impact for your presence, read on!\n\n\nProfile\n\nYou have at least 10 years experience as a Software Engineer.\n\nYou love working on hard problems. You are strong at both backend and frontend web development, though you may lean towards one end.\n\nYou are highly passionate about programming and write clean, maintainable code. You always strive to follow best practices, test, and document your code.\n\nYou can work in a structured and analytic way. You have positive outlook on new technologies and a driving force to adapt and learn new trends.\n\nLast but not least, you are a team player. We highly value your social skills and capability for cooperation as we are working on a team level.\n\n\nMinimum Requirements\n\n\n* At least 10 years experience as a Software Engineer.\n\n* Strong Flutter interest/experience and Ruby on Rails mastery.\n\n* Show and demonstrate apps and services you built, with or without actual clients or users.\n\n* Ability to introduce us to at least 2 references that can attest of your previous work experience.\n\n* English is mandatory.\n\n* Bonus point: You live or want to live in Africa.\n\n\n\n\n\nHow we work\n\nRemotely. Work from your home or wherever. As long as you have a good and fast internet.\n\nIteratively. We do 2 weeks hunts, daily deploys (if not more), and timely code reviews to ship quickly and minimize bugs.\n\nCollaboratively. Monthly AHOM, written weekly, daily video team meetings. Basecamp communication, and managed projects. We work as a team to help make our product better.\n\nFlexibility. While we strive to stick to a plan we think is best for the company, we do actively incorporate experiment learnings and business feedback into our sprints. Mind flexibility is a must-have trait in our company culture.\n\n\nPerks & Benefits\n\n\n* Salary from 60k to 140k € per year.\n\n* International health coverage included.\n\n* 1 week meetup, once to twice year in a different city in Africa.\n\n* Up to 100 € / month for your technical books purchase on Amazon and e-learning subscriptions.\n\n* 100€ / month for your hardware purchase (cumulative. you can wait a year to buy the latest iPhone or 2 for a MacBook for example).\n\n* Up to 50 € / month on your gym subscription.\n\n* Strong equity package after 18 months.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe're Anka. We truly embrace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Ruby, Senior, Engineer, Video, Amazon, Flutter, API, Mobile, Sales, SaaS and Backend 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

\nTaxJar is the leading technology solution for busy eCommerce sellers to manage sales tax and is trusted by more than 15,000 businesses.\n\nOur 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\nTaxJar’s remote-only team of over 140 people is growing quickly. We have an immediate opening for a Full-Stack Software Engineer who wants to help us make e-commerce easier for everyone.\n\nWe want you to join one of our product engineering 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\n*This is a full-time remote position, available to folks located in the US.\n\nAs a Full-Stack Software Engineer at TaxJar you will\n\n\n* Be challenged to solve new problems\n\n* Work in every part of Ruby on Rails’ MVC framework\n\n* Build pixel perfect UX based off designer provided mock-ups\n\n* Contribute to 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* Spend time working the customer success inbox. Our employees, even the CEO, spend time doing this - we’re all in it together.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRequirements\n\n\n\n* 5 - 8 years experience with Ruby on Rails and RSpec\n\n* 3 - 5 years experience with a modern JavaScript frontend framework (React, Vue, etc)\n\n* Experience building front-end JavaScript tests\n\n* Ability to manage 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 communicating with the team remotely (chat, video, email, etc)\n\n\n\n\nYou’ll be a great fit on our team if you\n\n\n* Write code that is maintainable and readable by your team\n\n* Only want to work remotely\n\n* Are accountable for the code you deliver to production\n\n* Are a PRO at communicating and collaboration\n\n* Highly value working with people you like and respect\n\n* Are accountable\n\n* Are confident in your skills and a solid team player (We’re peers here, no egos please) but also comfortable working asynchronously\n\n* Are hungry to play an impactful role and not afraid to fail\n\n\n\n\nWe’re a happy team and we all really love what we do. 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. We're always learning how to make TaxJar the best place to work for all of us, and not just another tech startup. We’re always looking for an amazing new teammates to come share in the excitement of solving real-world problems with technology.\n\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\n\n\n* Excellent health, vision and dental benefits\n\n* Flexible vacation policy\n\n* 401k Plan\n\n* $1,000 in professional development credit\n\n* Home office stipend\n\n* Equity in a profitable company\n\n* 2x year all-company in person retreats (fully paid for by us of course)\n\n* Mandatory Birthday holiday!\n\n* 12 week paid maternity & paternity leave\n\n* Monthly perks reimbursement for things like Netflix, Amazon Prime, your gym membership, home internet and more\n\n\n\n\nWe offer all of our employees amazing benefits. Visit www.TaxJar.com/jobs for a full list of our benefits and to learn more about how we work and what we stand for.\n\nIf you're not the perfect fit for this position, but you know someone who is, we'll pay you $1,000 if you refer us to the person we hire. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Full Stack, Developer, Digital Nomad, JavaScript, Amazon, Ruby, API, Sales, SaaS and Ecommerce 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