Position: Senior Back End Wizard ✨
Company: joi.studio
Location: Remote (Sydney EST and LA time) 🌍
Working Hours: Flexible, with a preference for working between 1pm and 12am Sydney EST (8pm to 7am LA time) ⏰
Role Type: Contractor, working ideally 40 hours per week

About Us: Hey there! 🌟 We're a passionate team on a mission to revolutionize mental health and personal growth. Our platform blends the best features of Netflix and Udemy, providing a unique and joyful experience to over 350,000 students across five countries. We reached product market fit over three years ago without needing external capital and continue to scale and innovate every day. 🚀

Role Overview: Are you a back-end wizard who loves autonomy and taking charge? 🧙‍♀️ We're on the lookout for an assertive Senior Back End Wizard who can set their own working hours while aligning with our fun and dynamic team. Your skills and opinions will be highly valued, and you'll play a crucial role in our development process. You'll be responsible for delivering stellar code and conducting your own QA to western standards. 🌟

Key Responsibilities:

• Autonomous Work: Set your own hours while aligning with team working hours (1pm - 12am Sydney EST / 8pm - 7am LA time). Expected that there would be at least 3 hours overlap each day with other team members. 🕒
• Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain robust back-end systems using our awesome tech stack. 🖥️
• Assertive Leadership: Be bold and confident in team discussions and decision-making processes. 💪
• Ownership and Reliability: Take 100% ownership of your work, including any mistakes, and be expected to own them. Be reliable and ensure you do what you say when you say it. 👍
• Quality Assurance: Deliver top-notch code and perform thorough QA to meet western standards. ✔️
• Efficient DB Queries: Create lightning-fast database queries to ensure performance and scalability. ⚡
• Re-Architecting Systems: Reimagine and re-architect back-end systems to adapt to new and growing application needs. 🔄
• Front End Understanding: Have a good grasp and some experience with front-end technologies. 🌐
• Stake Holder Management: Effectively communicate with key stakeholders, ensuring their needs and expectations are met and aligned with project goals. 😊
  

Tech Stack:

• Node.js
• React.js
• Apollo
• GraphQL
• TypeScript
• JavaScript
• Python
• MySQL (AWS RDS)
• MongoDB
• AWS Web Services (Route 53, CloudWatch, Terraform, S3, RDS, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway)
• Cloudflare
• Terraform
• DataDog (or other similar logging platforms)
• LangChain

Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Senior Back End Engineer. 🏆
• Strong proficiency in our tech stack. 🛠️
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and assertively. 🚀
• Experience in re-architecting back ends for scalability and performance. 📈
• Strong QA skills with an eye for detail. 👀
• Strong experience in MySQL and MongoDB. 💾
• Passion for working with mental health and helping others. ❤️
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. 🤝
• Reliable and trustworthy, with a commitment to owning your work. ✅
• Ideal candidate will have had 10 years of development experience. 🌟
• Beneficial, though not critical, to have a passion for AI, Python, and LangChain. 🤖

Why Join Us:

• Work on a unique and impactful platform that combines the best of Netflix and Udemy. 📺📚

• Be part of a team that values your skills and listens to your opinions. 🗣️

• Contribute to a product that has achieved product market fit and continues to scale successfully. 🌍

• Make a difference in the mental health space, helping over 350,000 students improve their lives across five countries. 🌟

• Most of our team members stay with us for over 2.5 years. In fact, here's a heartfelt message from one of our wonderful team members about our leader (Robert) of the joi.studio on his birthday:

  "Hi Robert, On this special day, I want to take a moment to wish you a very happy birthday! Your leadership, vision, and unwavering dedication have been a constant source of inspiration for all of us. Your ability to guide us through challenges with grace and wisdom is truly remarkable, and we are fortunate to have you as our leader. Beyond your professional excellence, your kindness, understanding, and genuine care for each team member make you an extraordinary person. You create an environment where we feel valued and motivated to give our best, and for that, we are deeply grateful. May this year bring you abundant joy, good health, and countless moments of happiness. Here's to celebrating you today and always. Happy birthday!"

If you are a highly skilled, autonomous, and assertive Senior Back End Wizard with a passion for mental health, giving back to those in need, and making the world a better place, we would love to hear from you. Join us in making a meaningful impact through innovative technology. ✨

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Benefits

🏖 Unlimited vacation

⬜️ No whiteboard interview

👀 No monitoring system

🚫 No politics at work

🎅 We hire old (and young)

🚀 Want to join a team of A-players in an exciting, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment?

LeadSimple is a small team solving big problems in the property management industry. Bootstrapped since 2013, we're passionate about helping small businesses grow sustainably.

Our software provides a powerful foundation for any property management company to take their business to the next level. Thousands of property managers rely on us for their day-to-day operations and we’re only getting started. 

We’re looking for seasoned Senior and Lead Ruby on Rails Engineers to join our fully-remote team to help us scale to meet market demand. This is an opportunity to join on the ground floor of a bootstrapped, growing company with a lot of upside.

What we’d want you to do:

• Take technical ownership of our product’s architecture and capabilities
• Recommend and lead complex refactoring projects and migrations, without sacrificing stability, such as:
  • Modernizing our back-end stack (we’re currently on Rails 4)
  • Optimizing our API and PostgreSQL database for scale and performance
• Suggest and implement scalability & productivity improvements
• Collaborate with the rest of the team in weekly meetings, chat and code reviews
• Develop new full-stack features from start to finish using the Shape Up method
• Participate in our Betting Table planning meetings
• Write high-quality and maintainable Ruby and Typescript code
• Write high-quality documentation on our product’s architecture to assist collaboration

Qualifications

Must have

• 5+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails
• Fluent spoken and written English at a professional level.
• Working hours must overlap with PST for at least 3 hours.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL query optimization and scaling strategies
• Past experience with complex upgrades and migrations
• Prior experience as a software architect or technical lead
• Strong analytical and debugging skills
• Strong communication skills, able to recommend decisions using data and experience

Nice to have

• Prior experience upgrading Ruby on Rails (this would be a big plus!)
• React, Typescript or GraphQL experience
• Elixir experience (we have 1 service using Elixir)

Our Stack

Front-end

• Typescript
• React 
• MaterialUI
• Relay

Back-end

• Ruby on Rails monolith (with 95% test coverage)
• GraphQL (via graphql-ruby gem)
• Sidekiq
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Heroku

What it’s like to work here

• You’ll have opportunities to work on the entire stack, from databases to user interfaces and everything in between, in a wide variety of product areas.
• You’ll own the delivery of high-impact projects that affect real customers, from start to finish, with no bureaucracy, following the Shape Up method. 
• You’ll collaborate within a small, highly productive team, reviewing code and helping other engineers with their roadblocks.
• You’ll have time to focus. We don’t micromanage, and we do our best to keep distractions (and meetings) to a minimum. 
• When assigned to on-call duty, you’ll investigate and fix bugs and respond to incidents. 
• You’ll deploy early and often. We ship to production multiple times per day.

Benefits

• Remote-only team, location independent
• 3rd Friday of every month off
• 6 US Holidays
• 3 Weeks Paid Time Off (in addition to the above)
• Quarterly Two-Week Hackathons
• Monthly Healthcare Allowance
• Yearly Vacation Allowance
• $2000 equipment stipend upon hire
• Focused and dedicated environment with smart, caring people
• Consistent, but flexible working schedule with minimum 3hr Pacific Time Zone overlap
• Mission driven, non-political company and values-based culture

Our Interview Process

• Fill out our application, located here
• Intro call (30 minutes)
• Offline work sample test (up to 60 minutes)
• Work history interview with Hiring Manager (up to 90 minutes)
• Culture interview with People Operations (30 minutes)
• Meet the CTO (30 minutes)
• Meet the CEO (30 minutes)
• Offer call (15 minutes), followed by a written offer
• If you accept the offer, you enter a 90-day trial period, fully paid.
• If all goes well in your first 90 days, you convert to a full-time team member!
  

Salary and compensation

Benefits

🏔 Company retreats

🖥 Home office budget

🚫 No politics at work

🎅 We hire old (and young)

What is the job? 

No matter how powerful and flexible you build a platform, at the end of the day it’s the experience you can give the user that matters.  Radix is seeking a savvy frontend development expert to help build the tools that will define the future of decentralized finance (DeFi) and Web3.0 user experience.

DeFi and Web3.0 have turned out to be the killer apps that are taking public distributed ledgers from niche products for speculators and hobbyists to projects of global economic significance, and with them have come a new paradigm for user interfaces.  Authentication models, interoperability expectations, and the entire concept of user accounts are all undergoing dramatic changes; at Radix you’ll have the opportunity to define the way forward while working at the very cutting edge of a space undergoing furious growth.

Your initial focus will be development of full-stack typescript applications and integrated backend services spanning web and mobile devices that get users, their identity, and their assets connected to DeFi and Web3.0 applications on the Radix network. Working from Figma prototypes and pre-defined network APIs you will work within our Core Apps team to build and maintain web applications that interact with our unique mobile app, backend infrastructure to connect web and mobile experiences, and SDKs and technologies that developers will use to create their own web applications that interact with our mobile app.

What are we looking for? 

• You’re a confident coder who likes to work at the user interface level, and you have built public-facing websites or applications in Typescript in the past.

• You’re a generalist, and have experience building REST services and/or WebSocket backends.

• You are a researcher and enjoy requirements engineering for SDK development. 

• You like to actively shape designs and play with ideas as you build, and are comfortable iterating until it feels just right.

• You’re able to isolate the 90% case for user experiences.  

• You think in terms of making the most common interactions effortless, rather than making anything possible.

• You’re intelligent and learn quickly.  Absolutely no one at Radix winds up only doing what’s in their job description, and adaptability is essential.

What do you need?

• 4+ years as a professional software engineer in full-stack development

• You are fluent in Typescript.

• You have  SDK development experience.

• You know how to work with complex API’s (ideally WebRTC, WebAuthn, etc)

• You excel at researching and requirements gathering.

• You’re enthusiastic about working in a multidisciplinary team with mobile engineers. 

Who are we? 

At RDX Works, we're a team of like-minded thinkers who have long been convinced that we're living in the earliest stages of a global financial revolution. This revolution is being fuelled by decentralized finance (or DeFi for short), which is enabling an assortment of pioneering developers and entrepreneurs to re-invent almost every financial product that is currently traded and invested in traditional markets, without requiring central authorities or siloed infrastructure. DeFi has captured a great deal of attention and investment in the crypto-aware niche, growing assets under management from $1 billion to over $200  billion in a few years. Impressive as its growth has been, its current market size isn't even a rounding error on the over $400 trillion held in traditional finance. We're focused on what it will take to go from billions to trillions.

RDX went back to first principles to come up with the right technical solution—the first layer-one protocol built specifically for mainstream DeFi—and we have already tested out at over 1 million transactions per second. We're keenly aware that the need for an infinitely scalable platform is only one prerequisite among many for mass adoption, and we're also blazing new ground in the areas of purpose-built developer tools, user experiences, and regulatory integration.

We have forged a path deep into the future of what distributed ledger technology is going to look like and we need you to come and be part of the team that is making that happen right now.

If this job sounds like it was made for you, then please apply directly via the link or email [email protected] for more information.  

Check out our company benefits here - RDX Works Benefits  

Alternatively, if you feel like you don’t match all of the requirements, we would love you to still apply anyway. We understand that confidence gaps and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting incredible candidates and we wouldn’t want this to prevent us from meeting you; especially as we are big advocates of helping people learn & grow. This is also another reason we do not advertise salaries, we want to keep it as even a playing field as possible! 

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