Remote Backend + Cloud + Developer + Education + Ruby Jobs

## About us\n\nWe're a Swedish digital agency, specialized in building digital products and services for businesses of all sizes within both the private and public sectors. With our experienced, multidisciplinary team, we help our clients realize their projects from the early stages of ideation to prototypes, implementation, and post-production. Our ambition is to build a team with substantial experience and passion within their respective fields.\n\nWe’ve been a remote-first company for over eight years. Our team is currently all based in Europe, but we've had colleagues from all parts of the world, over the years: from the Dominican Republic all the way to South Korea and Bali.\n\n[Read more on www.oddcamp.com](https://www.oddcamp.com)\n\n## JOB TYPE\n\nFull time\n40 hours/week\n\n## LOCATION\nRemote\n\n## ABOUT YOU\n\n- You're a true professional who loves what you're doing;\n- You have a chronic thirst for knowledge and want to be a leading force in your field;\n- You have 3+ years of work experience in a similar role;\n- You are fluent in English and have excellent verbal and written communication skills;\n- You play well with others but are just as comfortable working on your own if needed;\n- You understand the choices you make in your work can help shape the world around you.\n\n## YOUR ROLE\n\nAs a Back End Ruby developer, you will be working in a team alongside, project leads, developers, and designers building and maintaining a diverse set of technical projects for our clients. As a tight knit team, you will be involved in all steps of the process, from early ideation, to architecting technical solutions, implementation, and beyond.\n\n## REQUIRED SKILLS\n\n- Significant experience with Ruby, working in a Ruby on Rails environment\n- Understanding of relational database and SQL (PostgreSQL)\n- Experience in creating and consuming web APIs\n- Deep understanding of object-orientated programming\n- Desire to work with Domain Driven Design\n- Experience with cloud services and tools (Heroku, AWS)\n- Git\n\n## IMPORTANT SKILLS\n\nYou don’t have to be a full-fledged expert within all of these from day one. However, you’ll likely work with all of these technologies regularly, so if you don’t already master them, then you’ll have to level them up.\n\n- DevOps and scaling Rails applications\n- Elasticsearch\n- Redis\n- Webpack\n- Modern JavaScript\n- React\n- Docker\n\n## BONUS SKILLS\n\nFamiliarity and experience with any of these fields is a major bonus:\n\n- GraphQL\n- Serverless architecture\n- Node & NPM\n- Elixir/Phoenix\n- MongoDB\n- Linux\n- Help and teach others: You know how to pass on your knowledge to other members of the team or to clients.\n- PHP\n- WordPress Headless (We only use WordPress as a headless CMS)\n\n## TELL US MORE\n\nWe’d be happy to hear about your…\n\n- Open source projects and contributions\n- Personal projects\n- Experience from business and management tools such as Trello, Basecamp, Harvest\n- Hobbies & Interests\n\n## WHAT IT’S LIKE TO WORK HERE\n\nTLDR; We have nice perks, exciting projects for interesting clients, and won’t work you to death.\n\n- You have big opportunities to influence your job and how we work.\n- You’ll enjoy a creative and smooth work environment.\n- We’re the best colleagues.\n- Remote work = OK. We have our HQ in Stockholm but you’re free to work from wherever you want within the Milky Way.\n- Because we’re an international team, English is the lingua franca internally. We also speak Swedish, Portuguese, Korean, Slovak, Bulgarian, - Spanish, and Lithuanian…\n- We’re a team - leave no colleague behind! We try to avoid projects where you’d end up on a long-term contract on your own.\n- 25 days of paid vacation every year.\n- Personal Development Days – Every other Friday, we step away from client work and choose something else that will boost our skills and expertise.\n- Company Development Days – When we feel it’s necessary to learn new things that require more time than one day every other week, we take time off to do that. How often and how long varies.\n- Overtime is our enemy and should not exist. You work 9-5, 8–4, 10–6, or whatever suits you. If you can’t stop building stuff, then go do good deeds in open source!\n- Workload: Every year has 224–229 workdays, depending on what days the Swedish national holidays occur. Out of these, approx 170 will be spent on client work since the following days are excluded: 25 vacation days, 22 personal development days, and 5–10 days conference/training days.\n- Health/fitness benefits (300 EUR/year), insurance, doctors’ appointments during work. Staying healthy is vital to do a good day’s work.\n- Pension savings following Swedish standards ITP1/ITP2. This amounts to 4,5% of your monthly salary.\n- Company trips. We love traveling the world and make sure to go somewhere on at least two company-wide trips per year.\n- Education budget. 400 EUR/year to spend on stuff that makes you a better designer or developer. Upgrade your GitHub account? Play around with a VPS on DigitalOcean? Pro account on CodePen? Fill your ebook reader with an unhealthy amount of ebooks? It’s your choice.\n- Your own stapler. To avoid fires.\n- You’ll get a Macbook Pro or whatever computer you prefer that runs OS X or Linux. \n\nPlease mention the words **DOG USELESS ABLE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xOTg=). 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#Location\nWorldwide

\nOverview of Position\n\nVarsity Tutors, a national leader and one of the fastest growing companies in education, is seeking talented Ruby on Rails Developers to help us dramatically scale our digital learning tools and global tutoring platform. We operate a curated marketplace for high-quality tutors, mobile learning apps, online tutoring environments, and other tutoring and test prep-focused technologies. We facilitate tutoring nationally and have over 10,000 tutors on our platform. Our company has grown rapidly over the last few years and we promote a fun, collaborative work environment. The Rails Developer will report directly to the Chief Technology Officer and be involved in strategic and operational technology decisions.\n\nQualifications\n\n\n* 3+ years of experience in the Ruby on Rails ecosystem\n\n* Experience with the Rails 3.x & Rails 4.x framework\n\n* Experience w/ testing tools & frameworks (MiniTest, RSpec, Capybara, PhantomJS,)\n\n* Experienced with Git\n\n* Proven experience working with and scaling high-traffic applications\n\n* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field) *or* a resume that will really impress us (past work, open source projects etc.\n\n\n\n\nPluses\n\n\n* Hands-on experience with Rails framework upgrades (major and minor upgrades)\n\n* Hands-on experience with Ruby language upgrades\n\n* Understand AB Testing\n\n* Worked with cloud technologies (Amazon services, Engine Yard, OpenStack)\n\n* Experience with NoSQL databases (Redis, MongoDB etc)\n\n* High speed Internet access (15+ MBPS)\n\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Working with other developers and the Varsity Team to build, enhance and scale services\n\n* Committed to producing quality work\n\n* Motivated starter that is obsessed with improving workflow through better user interfaces\n\n* Developing, improving and expanding scalable backend services\n\n* Regardless of when the last refactor, or code review .. you always want to improve and optimize\n\n\n\n\nWhat we offer full-time employees\n\n\n* Cutting-edge company issued technology\n\n* 52 hours of free tutoring per year for you or immediate family (Taking a trip to Italy soon? Beef up on your Italian with one of our tutors for free.)\n\n* Healthcare coverage\n\n* Entrepreneurial, fun, fast-paced work environment in nationally expanding company\n\n* On-the-job training and ongoing career development\n\n* Work wherever you want (remote position - no commuting time!)\n\n* World-class web developers work to make your job easier. Make suggestions directly to the Chief Technology Officer and quickly see your ideas implemented\n\n* An open work environment that emphasizes direct communication lines. Pitch your ideas straight to the CEO\n\n* A company you're proud to work for. Your work directly impacts families and students, helping them achieve their academic goals\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 Teaching, Education, Cloud, Scala, Ruby, Mobile, Backend, Full Time, Design, Developer, Digital Nomad and NoSQL 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

\nOverview of Position\n\nVarsity Tutors, a national leader and one of the fastest growing companies in education, is seeking talented Ruby on Rails Developers to help us dramatically scale our digital learning tools and global tutoring platform. We operate a curated marketplace for high-quality tutors, mobile learning apps, online tutoring environments, and other tutoring and test prep-focused technologies. We facilitate tutoring nationally and have over 10,000 tutors on our platform. Our company has grown rapidly over the last few years and we promote a fun, collaborative work environment. The Rails Developer will report directly to the Chief Technology Officer and be involved in strategic and operational technology decisions.\n\nQualifications\n\n\n* 3+ years of experience in the Ruby on Rails ecosystem\n\n* Experience with the Rails 3.x & Rails 4.x framework\n\n* Experience w/ testing tools & frameworks (MiniTest, RSpec, Capybara, PhantomJS,)\n\n* Experienced with Git\n\n* Proven experience working with and scaling high-traffic applications\n\n* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or related field) *or* a resume that will really impress us (past work, open source projects etc.\n\n\n\n\nPluses\n\n\n* Hands-on experience with Rails framework upgrades (major and minor upgrades)\n\n* Hands-on experience with Ruby language upgrades\n\n* Understand AB Testing\n\n* Worked with cloud technologies (Amazon services, Engine Yard, OpenStack)\n\n* Experience with NoSQL databases (Redis, MongoDB etc)\n\n* High speed Internet access (15+ MBPS)\n\n\n\n\nResponsibilities\n\n\n* Working with other developers and the Varsity Team to build, enhance and scale services\n\n* Committed to producing quality work\n\n* Motivated starter that is obsessed with improving workflow through better user interfaces\n\n* Developing, improving and expanding scalable backend services\n\n* Regardless of when the last refactor, or code review .. you always want to improve and optimize\n\n\n\n\nWhat we offer full-time employees\n\n\n* Cutting-edge company issued technology\n\n* 52 hours of free tutoring per year for you or immediate family (Taking a trip to Italy soon? Beef up on your Italian with one of our tutors for free.)\n\n* Healthcare coverage\n\n* Entrepreneurial, fun, fast-paced work environment in nationally expanding company\n\n* On-the-job training and ongoing career development\n\n* Work wherever you want (remote position - no commuting time!)\n\n* World-class web developers work to make your job easier. Make suggestions directly to the Chief Technology Officer and quickly see your ideas implemented\n\n* An open work environment that emphasizes direct communication lines. Pitch your ideas straight to the CEO\n\n* A company you're proud to work for. Your work directly impacts families and students, helping them achieve their academic goals\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 Teaching, Education, Cloud, Scala, Ruby, Mobile, Backend, Full Time, Design, Developer, Digital Nomad and NoSQL 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