Remote API + Full Stack + JQuery + Rails + Ruby Jobs

Blue Sky eLearn is hiring a fully remote Ruby on Rails Full Stack Engineer for our Path LMS team to help build and scale our Learning Management System.  You’ll be joining the team as a talented Ruby/Rails developer who has experience with all layers of the dev stack.  You have mastered all aspects, from front-end user interactions through to back-end server data management. You’re comfortable with Agile and Lean Methodologies, continuous delivery, code reviews, TDD/BDD, and pair programming.\n\nYou’ll be part of a talented core team of developers to deploy and scale the latest technologies and services on our state-of-the-art platform. You will join a highly motivated team working on building the world’s best learning platform in a hot industry. Your focus on the team will be working directly with the product manager, stakeholders, and other team members to design, implement and test new features and UX improvements on a regular basis.\nThis is a 100% remote, full-time salaried position averaging 40 hours per week. Candidates must be located in the United States.\n\n##**Responsibilities**\n* Contribute in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including but not limited to participating in DevOps tasks, design reviews, writing stories, coding modules, code reviews, unit testing and automated rspec testing\n* Follow best practices including but not limited to test-driven development, continuous integration, SCRUM, refactoring and code standards\n* Contribute to the collective knowledge of the team by educating and mentoring other engineers.\n* Time management and problem-solving skills. Collaborate effectively with software engineers, project managers, designers and external teams in an agile environment. \n* Participate in project scoping and planning, including shaping and estimating of project tasks.\n\n##**Qualifications**\n* 5+ years of software development experience, preferably web and API development\n* At least 2+ years of experience building Ruby/Ruby on Rails, customer-facing applications\n* Great OO skills, including strong design pattern and MVC knowledge. Recent experience using Ruby on Rails, React, Vue.js, HTML5, HAML, CSS3/SASS, Coffeescript, Javascript, JQuery, and PostgreSQL. Strong SQL skills, bonus for PostgreSQL optimization experience\n* Knowledge of software best practices, including continuous integration and TDD / BDD using Rspec/Capybara (or similar)\n* Experience with Git and a branch/pull-request flow. Familiarity with deployments on Heroku/Amazon Web Services (or similar)\n* Experience working with, or an interest in Agile Methodologies and Scrum\n* Experience working with Sidekiq\n* Experience with Heroku\n* Experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs\n\n##**Our Product Team's Values**\n* We communicate frequently and effectively\n* We are levelheaded and compassionate\n* We value diversity\n* We are passionate about our work\n* We maintain a healthy balance between work and life\n\n##**About Our Product**\nPath LMS is an award-winning and powerful learning management platform that helps associations, corporations, and agencies provide high quality online education to their members. Millions of professionals, including school administrators, lawyers, physicians, and construction contractors, have been educated through courses powered by Path LMS.\n\nAs more and more organizations have needed to utilize online education in response to the current global pandemic, the use of our online learning management system has increased dramatically. So, too, have the demands on our app’s scalability, functionality, and usability.\n\n##**About Our Hiring Process**\nAfter reviewing resumes and having a brief screening call, chosen applicants will be asked to complete a small code challenge and schedule an interview with a member of our engineering team. During the interview, we ask that you walk us through your solution to the code challenge. This is an opportunity to share with us your thought process and how you developed your solution. One-two additional interviews will be scheduled so you can meet our additional members of the team including our Product Manager and Chief Technology Officer.\n\nInterviews are designed so we can get to know you, understand your background and experience, and answer any questions you may have. There will be no gotchas, whiteboard sessions, logic problems, trick questions, or on-the-spot technical challenges. Interviews are conducted via Zoom and we kindly ask for your permission to record them so our entire team has an opportunity to get to know you.\n\n##**Benefits & Perks**\n* Medical, dental and vision benefits\n* Paid long term disability and life and AD&D insurance\n* Paid vacation, sick, bereavement, volunteer and family leave\n* Paid company holidays\n* 401(k) program\n* Remote work\n* Annual professional development reimbursement \n\nPlease mention the words **INFORM RECORD BICYCLE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMg==). 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 $110,000 — $130,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nUnited States

\nWe’re growing and looking for a Full Stack Rails Developer to join our passionate and talented team. We’re specifically looking for someone to join our remote team working in the Central European timezone, and who is fluent in both Polish and English.\n\nYou’ll be part of our 15 member development team working to:\n\n\n* Plan, implement, test, and ship new features\n\n* Architect and deploy new infrastructure\n\n* Investigate performance issues and execute improvements\n\n* Analyze technology proposals and advise\n\n* Hunt down bugs and fix root causes\n\n* Support the efforts of our design, front-end, support, and marketing teams\n\n\n\n\nYou’re enthusiastic, have high standards and a keen attention to detail, and you instinctively take ownership of your work. You’re excited at the idea of writing software that will be simple, easy to grok, but also performant and scalable when appropriate. Some examples of recently launched development projects:\n\n\n* Supporting our Front-End Developers as they transition existing interfaces to React+Redux\n\n* Implementing client proofing pages for users to service their clients\n\n* Launching v2 of our JSON API to support our Lightroom plugin and Theme development platforms\n\n* Integrating Webtype fonts to allow users to use them on their portfolios\n\n* Transitioning our platform to enforce SSL for all requests\n\n\n\n\nEvery member of our team is expected to ship top-notch work and take complete ownership of their responsibilities. In return, this is an incredible opportunity to get down into the trenches of a growing business and product, work with cutting-edge technologies, be immersed in a seriously awesome company culture, and solve challenging problems daily.\n\nQualifications:\n\n\n* You have 3+ years experience building complex web applications.\n\n* You are proficient in Ruby, Rails, RSpec, JavaScript/CoffeeScript/ES6, CSS/SCSS, HTML, MySQL.\n\n* You would be perfectly comfortable modifying a jQuery library or writing a custom Ruby gem and bundling it into your own project.\n\n* You are very comfortable with Git and GitHub.\n\n* You enjoy the idea of deploying your own code on your first day of work and being responsible for what happens.\n\n* You are passionate about user experience, whether that means multiple iterations to deliver a simple yet powerful UI, or an API which even the most novice developer could master.\n\n* You are obsessive about reducing operational overhead whenever and wherever possible.\n\n* You can make informed technology and implementation decisions and justify them.\n\n* You can accurately set and meet deadlines.\n\n\n\n\nBonus Points if:\n\n\n* You have a deep understanding of Git.\n\n* You’re comfortable writing and modifying React/Redux.\n\n* You’re familiar with Lua.\n\n* You enjoy debating with others to advocate for what you think is best.\n\n* You enjoy tinkering with new and interesting technologies for evaluation.\n\n\n\n\nAs this is a remote position, we're looking for someone well-suited to remote work. You should:\n\n\n* Be willing to come visit us in Toronto once in awhile (travel paid by us, of course).\n\n* Be comfortable with a workday that overlaps at least a few hours daily with our timezone (EST).\n\n* Be comfortable working independently and able to set your own priorities.\n\n* Have a propensity towards action. You don't like waiting for someone to wake up on the other side of the world and you'll figure out how to move forward on your own\n\n* Be a great written communicator. Most of your interaction with the rest of the company will be over Slack, e-mail, and other messages.\n\n* We use Mac computers. You should have your own Mac computer or be willing to purchase one and we are happy to help you do so if need be.\n\n\n\n\nAbout Format\n\nLaunched in 2008, Format.com has quietly become the leading online portfolio builder for professional visual artists around the world to exhibit, market and sell their work. Situated in Parkdale, with 45+ team members, tens of thousands of customers in over 190 countries, and voted the #1 online portfolio by photographers, designers and artists, we’ve come a long way, but have really only just begun.\n\n\n* Some of the benefits of working here include:\n\n* We have an amazing team that will be eager to help you succeed in your role. Learn more about us: http://wayswework.io/features/format\n\n* We pay competitive salaries and have flexible vacation and work-from-home policies\n\n* We provide great benefits: extended health, dental, life, and disability\n\n* We frequently celebrate hitting milestones after work (or in the middle of the day if it’s sunny)\n\n* We're proudly self-funded. We answer to our community and no one else!\n\n* In-office perks: a desk equipped with an Aeron chair and top-notch Apple gear (take a peek here), curating what music gets played over our office speakers, yummy catered lunches on Mondays, and drinking as much espresso as you need.\n\n\n\n\nThis is a full-time position based in Toronto, ON.\n\nTo apply, please fill out this form.\n\nOnly candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. No recruiters, please.\n\nFormat is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a work environment that is both diverse and inclusive. You will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, creed, disability, or age. \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, Developer, Digital Nomad, Music, Git, API, Marketing and jQuery jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $130,000/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 Us:\nCrowdFlower is changing the way work gets done, and we want you to help us make it happen.\nWere building a platform that makes it easy for data scientists to enrich their data by distributing work to an on-demand workforce located around the world. In addition to being an integral player in the red hot data science, machine learning and big data fields, we also provide critically needed work and income to millions of micro-tasking workers around the world. Everything our engineers do has real and tangible impact, everyday.\nWe need smart, innovative people to help us build scalable, resilient and responsive systems, working with our exceptional team in San Franciscos Mission District. You can look forward to working with a dynamic, growing company in a casual and fun environment with an opportunity to make an impact at all levels of the business.\nLearn more about our engineering culture at http://www.crowdflower.com/careers/engineering.\nThe Job:\nWhen we say Full Stack Engineer, we're looking for someone that is comfortable building custom UI/UX as well as defining API endpoints for the UI to communicate with. In terms of MVC, the position looks like: 5% M, 75% V, and 20% C. The primary tools you'll employ are Rails and jQuery. You like to work with different technologies and are passionate about constantly learning new things. You take pride in designing elegant, simple solutions to challenging problems, creating quality software components and promoting best practices for agile software development. You will help us ensure we continue to evolve and keep our edge as a world­-class development team. \nResponsibilities:\n* Distilling complex requirements into simple interfaces.\n* Defining the future of CrowdFlower's platform.\n* Building new products that use the core CrowdFlower platform.\n* Improve the interface that tens of thousands of CrowdFlower contributors and clients use everyday.\n* Take pride and ownership in your work and encourage others to do the same\n* Promote best practices for writing maintainable, well­-tested code\n\n\nMust Haves:\n* 3+ yrs experience on at least one significant production-level web app in Rails.\n* Experience in multiple programming languages (we primarily use Ruby and JavaScript).\n* A solid command of JavaScript. When something breaks, you either know exactly why it broke, or can find out easily.\n* The ability to design new interfaces - thinking up a creative solution and being able to implement it effectively.\n\n\nExperience with these would be definite assets:\n* Client-side MVC - React and/or Backbone\n* Jasmine/TDD experience\n* An opinion about Web Components/ES6\n* Git skills and GitHub repos full of cool stuff you've hacked on\n* A great design aesthetic\n* PostgreSql, JQuery, Redis\n* AWS, Jira, Confluence.\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, Scala, Ruby, API, Admin, Machine Learning, Data Science, jQuery, Engineer, Sys Admin, Full Stack, Design and Digital Nomad jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $125,000/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