Remote API + Full Stack + Operational + Ruby Jobs

LOCATION: Remote within the US\n\nDaily Kos is the nation’s largest liberal online political community, news organization, and activism hub. Powered by millions of highly engaged supporters, we’re building progressive power by connecting grassroots activists to hundreds of people-powered organizations and campaigns.\n\nWe are seeking an experienced and results driven Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to help build and scale the DailyKos platform. You will be hands-on and will actively collaborate with a team of 13 to guide projects, implement best practice solutions, champion the elimination of technical debt, and translate requirements into delivered products. Applicants must be self-motivated, efficient, and capable of delivering results with limited guidance.\n\nDaily Kos is an exciting workplace! Our site is used by hundreds of thousands of people a day who care deeply about progressive politics and are working to affect real political change. We provide an extensive feature set that extends from blogging to activism and beyond, built on top of a modern tool chain that includes Ruby on Rails, Sidekiq, SASS, JavaScript, React/Redux, Nginx, Varnish, and AWS/S3/Cloudfront. We have an energized team of great people with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. If you’re interested in a position that offers more than just a technical challenge, we’d love for you to join our passionate and dedicated team.\n\nOur offices are in Oakland, CA and Washington D.C., however, we are open to fully remote applicants.\n\nResponsibilities\n\n- Collaborate with coworkers across the organization to scope, design, and deliver solutions for large, complex challenges in the Daily Kos platform\n- Partner with internal stakeholders to deliver high-quality product releases in suitable timeframes\n- Actively participate in architectural planning and implementation\n- Effectively communicate technical vision\n- Evangelize best practices internally and externally\n- Clearly communicate technical issues and tie work to company objectives\n- Design for scale and reliability with the future in mind and do critical R&D\n- Persistently debug tough issues, finding a root cause or viable workaround\n- De-escalate conflicts and build consensus between team members about technical matters\n\nExperience\n\n- Strong experience with core web development technologies (Advanced JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks)\n- At least 5 years experience with Ruby on Rails\n- At least 2 years experience with React\n- Working knowledge of MySQL and pgSQL, possessing the ability to design, understand and edit database queries, optimization and profiling\n- Familiarity with AWS tool chain\n- Strong experience with Sidekiq\n- Strong experience with caching with a preference for direct experience with any of the following: redis, memcache, redis and/or varnish\n- Experience with large and complex code bases, utilizing API design techniques to help keep code clean and maintainable\n- A solid understanding of Linux\n\nQualifications\n\n- Deep understanding of modern web application best practices\n- Thought leader highly skilled in making technical decisions, influencing architecture, and prioritization across multiple teams\n- Ability to anticipate technical challenges, explore alternatives and tradeoffs thoroughly\n- In-depth understanding of full stack; can navigate and make legacy code maintainable\n- Focused on defining patterns and operational guidelines for your domain\n- Capable of successfully planning and delivering complex, multi-team, or system projects\n- Identifies problems that need to be solved and advocates for their prioritization\n- Able to reduce unneeded complexity\n- Comfortable with the Agile and Lean development process\n- Able to actively diagnose and address data scaling and optimization issues\n- Ambitious spirit and focus on delivering value into customers hands with excellent communication\n- Familiarity with principles of good user experience\n- Excellent communication skills, primarily in a virtual work environment\n- Familiarity with the Daily Kos application and commitment to become a platform expert\n- Willingness to travel occasionally for events or retreats\n\nSalary Range: $130,000 - $165,000\n\nBenefits:\n\nThis position is a 40 hour/week, full-time exempt position and reports to the Lead Staff Engineer. Candidates must be legally eligible to work in the United States. The position offers a flexible work environment, the ability to work remotely or from home, competitive salary, excellent benefits including: full medical, dental and vision benefits, 401K with a company match, remote worker stipend, professional development stipend, company-paid holidays, a generous vacation package, traumatic grief leave, as well as employer-paid parental/family leave. Our organizational commitment to personal growth and work-life balance reduces churn and encourages a very rewarding long term position.\n\nAt Daily Kos, we believe that the diversity of ideas, experiences, and cultures that our employees contribute to our organization help us be more effective activists, and we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We have a team of amazing people with different backgrounds and talents that are energized by the day’s news events, and people united by common cause. We’re a company that loves learning and supports growth and training for all our employees. \n\nPlease mention the word **RECOMMENDATIONS** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMzc=). 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 $130,000 — $160,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nUnited States

\nBased in Toronto, Format.com is the leading online portfolio platform for professional visual artists around the world to exhibit, market and sell their work. We are a proudly self funded business with tens of thousands of customers across every country worldwide.\n\nYou’ll be working on our Product team working on new product features as well as iteration and maintenance on existing features. Typically this entails taking high fidelity designs and technical requirements, working with the stakeholders to decide on solutions, and then working with your team to implement, test, and ship. You should have a keen attention to detail and the ability to understand and make trade-offs at multiple levels of abstraction.\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.\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\nRole Responsibilities:\n\n\n* Building and shipping: You love the satisfaction that comes from building software that strikes the perfect balance between simplicity, flexibility, and functionality. You leverage your knowledge, experience, and toolset to maximize your productivity, and you pride yourself on shipping high-quality software every day.\n\n\n\n* Consulting and estimating: You deeply understand the unique use cases and challenges of building modern web applications. You’re adept at investigating and understanding your team’s requirements, flagging potential issues, and proposing creative solutions. You realize software estimation is a hard problem, but you’re well-versed in estimation approaches and you care deeply about delivering on your commitments.\n\n\n\n* Managing requirements, dependencies, and scheduling: You have no problem balancing development commitments for multiple stakeholders, and you’re comfortable managing your own priorities and schedule.\n\n\n\n* Fixing and improving: You’re passionate about continuously improving processes, systems, and codebases, and you’re vigilant about keeping a high bar of quality. When you see a problem, you want to fix it, and you’re skilled at uncovering the root causes of  problems.\n\n\n\n* Communicating: You’re a skilled and fearless communicator -- clear, direct, and to the point, no matter whom you’re communicating with. You recognize that quality of  communication is what makes the difference between a good developer and a great one. Whether written or spoken, your colleagues value your ability to distill information into accurate and unambiguous language.\n\n\n\n\nWhat we’d like to see in our ideal candidate:\n\n\n* You have 3+ years experience building complex web applications with modern technology\n\n* You have deep experience with the Ruby on Rails framework and ecosystem including RSpec, Bundler, Sprockets, JavaScript and ES6, Haml, and CSS/SCSS\n\n* You would be perfectly comfortable modifying an existing JavaScript library or writing a custom Ruby gem and bundling it into your own project\n\n* You’re very comfortable with git and understand commits, revisions, merging, and conflict resolution\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’re excited by the prospect of teaching yourself new technologies as needed\n\n* You are passionate about user experience, whether that means multiple iterations to deliver a simple yet powerful UI, or an API that a developer of any skill level could understand and consume\n\n* You can accurately set and meet deadlines\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 understand the concept of React + Redux and you’re comfortable writing and modifying components\n\n* You’re familiar with Lua\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 Ruby, Full Stack, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, Teaching, JavaScript, Git and API 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

\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