Remote Backend + Developer + Senior + Teach + UX Jobs

We are looking for a talented person to come onboard with our engineering department to work from home in the position of a Ruby on Rails Senior Level Engineer. You’ll take on the challenge of improving the overall efficiency of Empire Flippers by developing fully fledged platforms, ensuring both the user experience and functionality are elevated to unprecedented levels. You’ll be working alongside Lead Backend Engineer Ben Gelsey, VP of Engineering James Andrews, and the rest of the engineering team.\n\nThis is a huge opportunity for you to work with one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S. and learn the ins and outs of the online business world. Over the last couple of years, our company has seen explosive growth—and there is no sign of it slowing down. In order to keep hitting our goals, we need to expand our horizons and improve our customer experience to a point that makes us the de-facto standard of excellence for buying and selling online businesses. Your work will help propel the industry forward to new levels not seen before!\n\nBeing a location-independent full time position is one of the many benefits. You’ll be free to work anywhere in the world outside of the USA (with the exception of Colorado, Florida, or Texas). Be it the beaches in Thailand – which does have superb 4G connectivity and cheaper cost of living – or in a mountain resort in the Swiss Alps – the choice is yours. *see USA resident requirements below.\n\nCompetitive salary based on experience - Range $85,000 – $100,000/year.\n\nIf this sounds like an exciting opportunity for you, then read on to learn more about our company and how to apply for the position!\n\nWhat’s the Opportunity?\n \nBecoming a Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer makes you a critical part of Empire Flippers. You will learn skills that will last you a lifetime in the online business world and provide skills that will enhance our business intelligence system to help us make better decisions.\n\n\nWe’ll teach you the ins and outs of the online business brokerage industry, coming from years of experience. You’ll work on improving the customer journey, which should be flawless, pain free and easy to navigate. For many of our customers it is the first time either buying or selling an online business, which can be an incredibly anxious and confusing moment in their lives. You’ll be helping them directly by providing them with an easy to use interface that just makes sense.\n\n\nThis is a full time position – our company is growing at a fast rate, which means excellent opportunities for personal and career growth. We may ask you to attend conferences too – once the world reopens – which can help you network with industry leaders.\n\nWhat’s the Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer Position Like?\n \nThe Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer position is vital to the success of our company, partnering with all departments to align technology strategy with the company’s objectives.\n\n\nYou’ll be responsible for the full software development lifecycle, from conception to deployment building high quality, architecturally sound systems. You will use your initiative to design and implement server-side architecture, as well as implement API’s and integrations that address our business needs. Both our clients and staff will be using the software you write and you’ll be responsible for monitoring system performance and configuring new software and hardware.\n\n\nOur small and close knit engineering team currently consists of a UX specialist, 5 engineers and 3 QA specialists. You’ll work closely with the team to implement solutions for all departments within Empire Flippers, be it compliance, customer support, sales and migrations. Additional responsibilities could lead to supervising our engineering team.\n\nWhat Skills Do I Need?\n \nWe believe in hiring people that are a good fit for us culturally.\n\nA good fit is actually more important to us than the skill set since we will teach you everything you need to know about our industry.\n\nYou must have a passion for travel, ideally with long periods of digital nomad experience with travel outside your home country.\n\nYou must have 2+ years of Ruby on Rails experience under your belt, having built RoR applications.\nAn in-depth understanding of database management systems, both relational and non-relational databases.\nYou should be a ninja with every component of our tech stack. You must have a complete working knowledge of Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Sidekiq, Rspec, Git, Redis.\nExperience working with a wide range of 3rd party integrations. Our platform talks to many 3rd party applications, you should have experience building and maintaining such integrations in a test driven fashion.\nDev-ops/sysadmin skills, particularly AWS. Experience with managing servers, maintaining hosting environments, being responsible for uptime and responsiveness, addressing bottlenecks, ensuring backups are kept safe and sound.\nYou need to have immaculate attention to detail. We need to hear you grunting and moaning if something doesn’t quite look or feel right, to the nearest code change and to the nearest hexadecimal color, to the point you become annoying to us. At times other developers may edit your code, you’ll be watching to ensure the code base remains readable, scalable and fast.\nBe a good communicator. It sounds very cliché, but you’ll immerse yourself in almost every department. You’ll be learning problems and presenting solutions, and overseeing the implementation of those solutions too.\nA self-starter. We need to see some evidence that you’re able to get up every morning, bite the bullet and just get on with it, even if you’ve tried four coffee shops and none have decent wifi. You won’t have eyes looking over your shoulder on a day to day basis, you’ll be working in almost full autonomy. We’ll need to trust you to deliver the goods. We don’t believe in micro-management.\n\nThe following skills/experience would be a bonus, but not required:\n\nPHP/WordPress. We will be interfacing with WordPress significantly, being able to speak the same language would be great.\n\nReact. Our frontend code is built in React, being able to go in and patch things up as and when required would be a big benefit to us. \n\nCaching. The software we’re building needs to be fast and to remain fast as we scale, both in terms of traffic and database size. Having experience with Memcached, Varnish or experience with complicated CDN setups with many rules would be a plus.\n\nCI/CD: We’re huge advocates for automated tests in a continuous fashion, which allows us to rapidly deploy new features every single day without fear of breaking out applications. \n\nWhat’s the Lifestyle Like?\n \nOur company is built on the foundation of travel, remote work, and living life on your own terms.\n\nWe’re not looking to put you in a cubicle and waste your time in traffic. You’ll be working hard, playing hard, and learning all about our company and what we stand for during this time.\n\nApart from meeting us in person every now and then, you’re free to work and live anywhere you’d like and join the new class of digital nomads – we’re homeless but have a passport, debit card and a laptop.\n\nYou’ll become friends with people who will be able to give you massive insights into how digital businesses work, how they scale, and, of course, how to invest in them or sell them.\n\nLove It. What’s the Catch? \n\nThis isn’t a gap year experience. This is not a temporary contract.If you’re applying just because you want something to fund your travels before you start seeking out a “serious” job, then you probably shouldn’t apply.We’re looking for career-minded people who share our vision and see where we’re going. We want you to be part of that vision and help us get there over the long haul.And while we play hard and sometimes really do work next to the pool all day, we work even harder. Sometimes you will be putting in a 10-12 hour day as business demands arise. You’ll be working weird hours to match other team members time zones, and you’ll sometimes have to face some critical feedback. And if there’s a bug in your code that’s blocking a multi-million dollar deal, expect a phone call at 3am.You will be expected to perform to our expectations and really help us grow our business to the next level. We’re counting on you.Apart from meeting us in person every now and then, you’re free to work and live anywhere you’d like and join the new class of digital nomads – we’re homeless but have a passport, credit card, and a laptop.You’ll become friends with people who will be able to give you massive insights into how digital businesses work, how they scale, and, of course, how to invest in them or sell them.If you can see yourself growing into a profitable and meaningful career with us and love what we do, we want you to be part of our team.\n\nDetails to Keep in Mind\n \nWe’re going to start you off slow. You’ll first learn about our company and what each department does; then you will be given some low-level tasks to ease you into the position. We aren’t going to throw you to the wolves — you’ll be part of a high-functioning team that is here to help wherever we can.\n\nJoe Magnotti, James Andrews and Ben Gelsey will be reviewing every application. If we think you’re a good fit, we will reach out to you to do a video call interview. After the first interviews are done, our final candidates will be brought back for a second interview before we make our decision.\n\n*US resident requirements: If you are in the US, we will accept candidates residing in Texas, Florida, or Colorado, as we are registered for payroll in these states. Otherwise, US candidates should plan to live abroad or have plans to relocate to Texas, Florida, or Colorado.\n\nWe have a no side project policy: we do not allow any ownership, association, or affiliations with online businesses or websites. If you are the owner of an online business, then you will be expected to either sell the business before you join us or sunset it upon accepting a job offer from us. If you are not comfortable with this, please do not apply.\n\n\nA background check is required. \n\n\n \n\nPlease mention the words **BLIND GLARE SUGAR** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi42OA==). 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 $80,000 — $100,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

Are you truly passionate about web development? Do you hate to compromise on code quality because of clients and deadlines? Then read on! \n\nWe're a product-focused organization, which means our codebase is our baby; it can never become too perfect and we continually push our ambitions upwards. \nWe're also the world's leading User Experience (UX) community—with over 1,5 million monthly visitors—and the biggest course platform for designers on the planet. Forbes Magazine has written about us and, what's more, we teach UX and Design to organizations like IBM and the British Parliament. We can offer you the freedom to shape your work schedule, as well as a priceless opportunity to make an impact on the world—you'll improve hundreds of thousands of lives each year. \n\nWith that in mind, we'd love if you could help us take our codebase to the next level.\n\n# Responsibilities\n You will join our team as a Senior Full-Stack Developer and your main responsibilities will be as follows:\n* Make principal architectural decisions together with back-end and front-end developers.\n* Communicate with our design team, write specifications for the components of the new [IDF Design System](https://s3.amazonaws.com/idfprofilepictures/hiring/IDF+Design+System+-+Proposal.pdf) and implement them. \n* Implement new features by writing readable, maintainable and testable code (using Laravel and/or Vanilla JS/Vue.js).\n* Reuse and improve existing solutions and components.\n* Write automated tests for critical parts of your code. What's more: We are TDD friendly!\n* Adopt the codebase as your baby and constantly refactor it towards perfection.\n\n**A future-proof tech stack**\n* We use the latest stable version of PHP7 because it increasingly offers features like strict type declarations. \n* We leverage the elegance, simplicity and readability of the latest Laravel version and features.\n* We want to spend our precious time on things that matter the most; that's why we perfect our easy to run development environment with Docker, VM and custom scripts. \n* We empower our automated tests with PHPUnit and Laravel Dusk.\n* We support evergreen browsers only 🌲 (ES2015+, grid layout, CSS custom variables, etc).\n* We constantly refactor our front-end code with the goal to reach front-end heaven: \n1.  **VanillaJS** and **Vue.js** for its simplicity and flexibility that comes with a very small size and great performance.\n1.  **PostCSS** to maximize the power of modern CSS.\n1.  **Webpack** for perfect control over front-end assets.\n1.  **Cypress.io** and Jest for automated tests.\n1.  **PWA** with offline experience.\n* Mixed multi-page application and single-page (for the most interactive parts).\n* We️ ❤️ CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Delivery) so we usually deploy a few releases per day: Zero downtime. Just a few buttons to push. No sweaty palms. \n* We care about Developer Experience (DX) of our codebase and tools. DX and DevOps is our middle name: git, GitHub, Docker, HTTP2, CDN, AWS and much more. **\n\n**Work conditions**\n* 100% remote full-time work with team trips 1-2 times a year in different places on the planet.\n* Flexible work schedule with minimal meetings.\n* Team of true professionals and smooth onboarding process with a personal mentor.\n* A culture of learning and excellence: \n1. In our code reviews, we constructively reference [specific evergreen principles](https://github.com/InteractionDesignFoundation/handbook/blob/master/library/front-end/clean-code-js.md) of programming to supercharge our learning. \n1. We actively use a library of evergreen literature on [front-end](https://github.com/InteractionDesignFoundation/handbook/blob/master/library/front-end/literature.md) and [back-end](https://github.com/InteractionDesignFoundation/handbook/blob/master/library/back-end/literature.md) development-related subjects. \n1. We believe that building timeless knowledge enables us to see through the hype and focus on what really matters. \n\n# Requirements\n* You have expert knowledge of PHP.\n* You have 6+ years of experience working professionally with OOP + MVC (preferably web technologies).\n* Your work is based on a solid foundation in computer science fundamentals from data structures and algorithms to design patterns. \n* You have substantial experience working with RESTful web services and ORM concepts.\n* You love to learn through doing. You’re ready to put in some hard work to expand your skills.\n* You speak and write to an acceptable level of English.\n* You are a team player and you don't bring your ego to work.\n* You are self-motivated and self-disciplined and thus work well in a flat hierarchy with lots of freedom.\n* You love to have creative freedom, make independent judgments and live up to the responsibility that comes with that freedom. \n* You love to make a positive impact on the world and the lives of others. \n\nPlease mention the words **ORCHARD TALK HAPPY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi42OA==). 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 No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, PHP, Senior, Backend, Full Stack, Front End, Developer and Digital Nomad jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

The Interaction Design Foundation seeks a Senior Front-end Developer to join our development team. We are the world's most prestigious community and course platform for UX designers and need a person who will help us to develop our educational platform by taking ownership of all CSS code, as well as help build new (and fantastic) JavaScript modules.\n\n## Required Skills:\n\n- 5+ years of experience working professionally with web development.\n\n- You write semantic and accessible HTML5.\n\n- You know the latest CSS features and how to use them to build reusable, independent components.\n\n- You have strong, framework-agnostic knowledge and experience in JavaScript (ES6).\n\n- You love to learn and push your skills to new levels.\n\n- You know Git basics, and you're familiar with GitHub and/or Bitbucket.\n\n- You have an understanding of basic programming patterns and principles as well as a strong sense of good engineering and architecture.\n\n- You want to help build a rock-solid and perfectly architected and documented front-end codebase.\n\n- You are truly ambitious, result-oriented, friendly, and you like to continually improve.\n\n- You are self-motivated and love to see tangible results.\n\n- You speak and write acceptable English – not perfect English, just acceptable – since you will be working with people from Turkey, England, Denmark, Russia and Brazil, among others.\n\n\n\n## Bonus Skill Set\n\n- You are an open source contributor.\n\n- Experience with React and/or Vue JS frameworks.\n\n- Experience with creating [PWA](https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/).\n\n- Experience with Gulp, Webpack and module loaders (ES6/AMD/CommonJS).\n\n- Experience with backend programming languages/technologies (PHP, Python, Java, .Net, JS (Node.js)).\n\n- Experience with working remotely.\n\n\n\n## Why you’ll want to join us:\n\n- You get to work in an international team of seniors where we truly and deeply care about great architecture, great code, great documentation, great tests, etc. You will work with us, learn from us and teach us.\n\n- We love our product and thus there are no boundaries for perfection of our codebase: we have zero tolerance for spaghetti code and [technical debt](https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html/), we have regular code review sessions, regular refactoring sprints and we use the best tools to do it.\n\n- We use modern CSS stack: BEM-based ITCSS as our CSS methodology for modular, reusable, component-based code and a CSS pre-processor.\n\n- We use Modern JavaScript stack: framework-agnostic ES6, Babel, JS modules, module bundling.\n\n- We support modern evergreen browsers only and ... IE11 (we use a graceful degradation technique for it). So you can use the latest JS and CSS features.\n\n- You will have uninterrupted concentration time every day to build pure front-end awesomeness and thus accelerate your learning curve. If you were to work at Facebook or Google, you would be [constantly interrupted](https://qz.com/806583/programmers-hate-open-floor-plans/) and only have 2 hours of uninterrupted “flow time” per day. That creates a [slow learning curve](https://blog.ninlabs.com/2013/01/programmer-interrupted/). Working with us, you get a full 7 hours per day. Imagine what that will do to your mental muscles, to your learning and to your career.\n\n- You will help shape the future of design education which millions of people can benefit from.\n\n- You will have the ability to work from anywhere — as long as your internet connection allows you to have video-based contact with your colleagues every day.\n\n- You get to meet up with the rest of the team several times a year at interesting destinations like a scenic Thai island, Dubai, Denmark, or the like. See the [video about our company culture for more](https://www.interaction-design.org/careers).\n\n- We have a focus on evergreen programming techniques and best practices, as opposed to the latest hyped framework. We’d rather hand-craft things ourselves than build our platform on a gazillion 3rd party libraries. Just ask Facebook: [they know it sucks.](https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-by-deleting-a-tiny-piece-of-code/)\n\n- Our CEO is a programmer and you will therefore not have to worry about “management speak” in order to get your point across. Just let your awesome code “speak for itself” and you will earn respect immediately!\n\n\n\n## What you will be doing:\n\n- You will take ownership and leadership of an ever-growing front-end codebase where elegance and simplicity must be maintained and furthered – and where the evil forces [entropy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_entropy), [bloat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bloat), and spaghetti must be fought back by your intellect and coding skills.\n\n- Creating new components (CSS + JS), refactor existing ones, improve our style guide, build new pages using existing components.\n\n- Building upon our current front end style guide and coding guides, which let our back end developers use front end components with ease. You will build a “design system” that is extremely detailed yet also easy to navigate and use.... much like https://polaris.shopify.com/.\n\n- Helping us to build an online course that will teach millions of designers how to become front-end developers. This will hugely improve your skills and ability to communicate - and will prove to be an awesome challenge!\n\n- Creating animations that are not only beautiful, but meaningful and are features that add to the UX of our users.\n\n- Marking our application faster and lighter.\n\n\n\n## About our company\n\nThe Interaction Design Foundation is the world's most prestigious community and course platform for user experience designers. We are a nonprofit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of design education around the world, and we do so by providing high-quality online UX design courses at an affordable membership fee. With tens of thousands of members learning from our courses, and hundreds of thousands reading our free educational materials, we’re one of the largest UX design communities around the world.\n\n\n\nWe've spent the last 15 years building our community, and the last year rebuilding our course platform—based on a brilliant technology stack. And now we want you to help us build pure awesomeness in versions 7, 8, 9, etc.! If you're a senior front-end developer with sublime programming skills acquired from 5+ years of experience, we’d like to work with you.\n\n\n\nThis is a paid full-time position. You'll be location independent and will therefore be free to work from wherever you want in the world. You will have daily video-based contact with your colleagues and will get to meet them physically on team trips (see below).\n\n\n\n## About our work culture\n\nPlease also see our page explaining our work culture in more detail before you apply: https://www.interaction-design.org/careers\n\n\n\n## Our Zen Code\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n## Want to join our team? Here is how!\n\nPlease send an email to Rikke Friis Dam at [email protected] where you:\n\n- Tell us why you want to put your heart, mind and hard work into this job.\n\n- Tell us the 3 productivity tips/methods that work best for you.\n\n- Make sure your application reflects your perfectionism.\n\nApply as soon as you can – we’re firm believers of “the sooner, the better”. We’re looking forward to working with you! \n\nPlease mention the words **REVIEW TORNADO SORT** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi42OA==). 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 No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Full Time, Front End, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, English, JavaScript, Education, CSS, Git and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n