Remote Amazon + MySQL + Rails Jobs

\nDescription\n\nWe're looking for two Senior Backend Engineers to join our platform team, we're preferring candidates who've worked with large Ruby on Rails codebases before. Our engineering team is remote and distributed across a few countries.\n\nWho we're looking for\n\nWe want someone to help us build new features and maintain our current system as well as help us build with designing and implementing communication strategies across different services.\n\nThe ideal candidate is someone who has:\n\n(We don't expect you to have experience with all of these)\n\n\n* Worked remotely with lots of asynchronous communication before and is a good writer\n\n* Worked on a large Rails codebase\n\n* Worked on product-oriented software at scale\n\n* Has experience with MySQL\n\n* Has experience with cloud services (e.g. Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, and other tools)\n\n* Worked on scaling background jobs (we use Sidekiq)\n\n\n\n\nA big plus is for candidates who've worked with a large Rails codebase and dealt with problems that arise from experimenting and change that have accumulated over the years until the product and business requirements became clear.\n\nWe're open to candidates who have experience with other languages and frameworks but preference will be given to ones who've tackled these problems for Ruby on Rails.\n\nWhat You'll Be Doing\n\nThe majority of your time will be spent on adding features and fixing bugs, as well as documenting issues and sharing your opinions on how we can improve our platform, or on how to better design a feature. We're heavily asynchronous and use we expect you to write a lot whether in wikis, issues, Slack, and so on.\n\n\n* Working on bug fixes and helping design new features in a simple and clean manner, both for our REST APIs that are consumed by our mobile apps (iOS, and Android) and for ERB views for our backoffice/admin panel.\n\n* Architecting a framework to facilitate communication across our different services (e.g. Business Portal, Payouts)\n\n* Helping us achieve zero-downtime MySQL migrations\n\n* Optimizing background workers to operate on smaller datasets\n\n* Adding unit and integration tests and helping us follow Behavior-Driven Development (we mainly use RSpec)\n\n* Work with product, UX teams, and mobile engineering teams to help fine-tune features and ensure we're delivering great value to our users\n\n* Talking with fellow teammates from the engineering and product teams (mainly asynchronously via Slack, and occasionally synchronously via Slack/Zoom) to understand our business needs and our current code/database structures and occasionally assisting the Platform Refactoring team so they can produce code that works for you.\n\n\n\n\nTeams\n\nAPI\nThis team is in charge of working on the APIs that serve our mobile apps and integrations.\n\nBackoffice\nThis team is responsible for building and maintaining internal tools to support our operations, customer support, and accounting staff to do their jobs.\n\nPayments\nThis team is responsible for the whole payment process from collecting money from customers to sending payouts to couriers.\n\nOur Hiring Process (~1 month)\n\n\n* After we receive your application, we'll send you a short questionnaire that shouldn't take more than an hour to complete.\n\n* We'll have a quick call for you to get to know us and us to get to know you (~45 minutes).\n\n* We'll do a pair programming session which involves reviewing a pull request on a small Rails application (1.5 hours).\n\n\n\n\nPair Programming Session Details\n\nWe'd like for you to review the pull request we'll send you and add feedback as you would for any pull request. You'll have access to the pull request a few days before the session and you can leave your feedback as comments. Make sure to cover any case where you'd say to yourself "I wouldn't do it this way".\n\nWe'll review your comments during the session and pair program with you taking the role of the driver and apply your feedback. Make sure you can run the code before the session. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Backend, Accounting, Amazon, Cloud, Ruby, Mobile and Senior 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

\nClarity Services, a part of Experian, is a credit bureau that provides reporting on near-prime, non-prime and subprime consumers. We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the software engineering team. This is a position that can be done virtually from a home office. We are building out development infrastructure, automation, and AWS integration. This is the first dedicated position for this work and the person will be critical in steering the direction of these projects.\n\nWe have about two terabytes of data in MySQL and MongoDB. We use Rails on JRuby to run over a million transactions for our customers every day. Our typical response times are 1-2 seconds for a basket of products and we maintain uptimes north of 99.99%.\n\nOur environment:\n * Ruby on Rails currently at 4.2, moving to 5.1\n * Git/GitHub repository, Jira for ticket tracking/scrum sprints and GitHub for code reviews.\n * 1:1 test coverage for most of the codebase and 2:1 for prime areas. Work closely with QA team.\n * Mac laptops provided for development\n * Jenkins for continuous integration, deploy to dual hot data centers\n\nSkills & Requirements\n\n\n* Experience maintaining 99.99% availability with large production environments\n\n* Working knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases like MySQL and MongoDB\n\n* Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or similar infrastructure automation tool\n\n* Experience with Docker\n\n* Experience with Amazon Web Services\n\n* Able to lead on some difficult projects and work as a team partner on others\n\n* Available for escalated outage response 24x7 because you are responsible for your code\n\n* Empathy for consumers, teammates, business owners, and other stakeholders\n\n* Love working as part of a team and continuously strive for self-improvement\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to DevOps, Engineer, Jira, Amazon, NoSQL, Ruby and Senior 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