Remote Backend + Engineering + Mobile + MySQL + Rails Jobs

\nDescription\n\nWe're looking for two Senior Backend Engineers to join our platform team, we're preferring candidates who've worked with large Ruby on Rails codebases before. Our engineering team is remote and distributed across a few countries.\n\nWho we're looking for\n\nWe want someone to help us build new features and maintain our current system as well as help us build with designing and implementing communication strategies across different services.\n\nThe ideal candidate is someone who has:\n\n(We don't expect you to have experience with all of these)\n\n\n* Worked remotely with lots of asynchronous communication before and is a good writer\n\n* Worked on a large Rails codebase\n\n* Worked on product-oriented software at scale\n\n* Has experience with MySQL\n\n* Has experience with cloud services (e.g. Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, and other tools)\n\n* Worked on scaling background jobs (we use Sidekiq)\n\n\n\n\nA big plus is for candidates who've worked with a large Rails codebase and dealt with problems that arise from experimenting and change that have accumulated over the years until the product and business requirements became clear.\n\nWe're open to candidates who have experience with other languages and frameworks but preference will be given to ones who've tackled these problems for Ruby on Rails.\n\nWhat You'll Be Doing\n\nThe majority of your time will be spent on adding features and fixing bugs, as well as documenting issues and sharing your opinions on how we can improve our platform, or on how to better design a feature. We're heavily asynchronous and use we expect you to write a lot whether in wikis, issues, Slack, and so on.\n\n\n* Working on bug fixes and helping design new features in a simple and clean manner, both for our REST APIs that are consumed by our mobile apps (iOS, and Android) and for ERB views for our backoffice/admin panel.\n\n* Architecting a framework to facilitate communication across our different services (e.g. Business Portal, Payouts)\n\n* Helping us achieve zero-downtime MySQL migrations\n\n* Optimizing background workers to operate on smaller datasets\n\n* Adding unit and integration tests and helping us follow Behavior-Driven Development (we mainly use RSpec)\n\n* Work with product, UX teams, and mobile engineering teams to help fine-tune features and ensure we're delivering great value to our users\n\n* Talking with fellow teammates from the engineering and product teams (mainly asynchronously via Slack, and occasionally synchronously via Slack/Zoom) to understand our business needs and our current code/database structures and occasionally assisting the Platform Refactoring team so they can produce code that works for you.\n\n\n\n\nTeams\n\nAPI\nThis team is in charge of working on the APIs that serve our mobile apps and integrations.\n\nBackoffice\nThis team is responsible for building and maintaining internal tools to support our operations, customer support, and accounting staff to do their jobs.\n\nPayments\nThis team is responsible for the whole payment process from collecting money from customers to sending payouts to couriers.\n\nOur Hiring Process (~1 month)\n\n\n* After we receive your application, we'll send you a short questionnaire that shouldn't take more than an hour to complete.\n\n* We'll have a quick call for you to get to know us and us to get to know you (~45 minutes).\n\n* We'll do a pair programming session which involves reviewing a pull request on a small Rails application (1.5 hours).\n\n\n\n\nPair Programming Session Details\n\nWe'd like for you to review the pull request we'll send you and add feedback as you would for any pull request. You'll have access to the pull request a few days before the session and you can leave your feedback as comments. Make sure to cover any case where you'd say to yourself "I wouldn't do it this way".\n\nWe'll review your comments during the session and pair program with you taking the role of the driver and apply your feedback. Make sure you can run the code before the session. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Backend, Accounting, Amazon, Cloud, Ruby, Mobile and Senior 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

\nSenior Full Stack Developer ( Ruby on Rails / PHP / Javascript ) to work onsite with our team in either downtown Alpharetta, midtown Atlanta or downtown Greenville, SC. You'll be part of a collaborative product development process - working together with our design and development teams to build awesome mobile and desktop apps.\n\n We are looking for a developer who is experienced with cutting edge tools and project deployment. We're a close-knit team that helps companies build responsive mobile products and platforms.\n\n This position is available immediately, pays competitively and is full-time. You'll be working in one of our open offices, base on your convenience to either Alpharetta or Atlanta,  where we use MacBook Pros, have free soda and snacks, plus nearby restaurants.\n\n We're a creative, fun-loving, hard-working team. If you thrive on the energy of a small growing firm, and want to work with a variety of clients, you’ll love Digital Scientists.\n\n Requirements\n\n\n\n* 7+ years of Full Stack Software Engineering experience, with Ruby on Rails or PHP for the backend and Javascript on the frontend. \n\n* Advanced knowledge of the Javascript ecosystem and its popular libraries, including: npm, webpack, express, React, Redux \n\n* Experience building mobile apps with React Native.\n\n* Proficient with modern web technologies such as JavaScript 6/7, CSS3 and HTML5.\n\n* Well-versed with NoSQL data stores such as Redis and ElasticSearch.\n\n* Experience with RDBMS databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL\n\n* Ability to use existing JSON API’s from services like ElasticSearch and architect/implement usable products.\n\n* Architectural knowledge of popular API’s like mobile push notifications, Google maps, Facebook, Twitter.\n\n* Use standards compliant designs in CSS and HTML\n\n* Strong experience with Git or similar source control software\n\n* Basic knowledge of mobile app development platforms including Swift, Android SDK\n\n* Strong TDD/BDD and Agile Development experience\n\n* Experience with setting up and managing servers on AWS, GCP, and/or Azure\n\n* Comfortable with Linux and Docker.\n\n* Familiar with progressive web apps (PWA) and their strengths/weaknesses compared to native applications.\n\n\n\n\nWe offer\n\n\n\n* Open and collaborative work environment\n\n* Work with the latest and greatest open-source tools\n\n* Opportunities for professional development\n\n* Flexible onsite work schedule\n\n* 15 Days Paid Time Off plus 9 Paid Holidays\n\n* Group health plan (100% of Employee premium paid by Company) \n\n* 401K Savings plan (with employer matching)\n\n* Location: Downtown Alpharetta or Midtown Atlanta\n\n* Position: Regular full time employee\n\n* Reports To:  VP Engineering\n\n\n\n\nLocal Candidates only. Unable to sponsor applicants for work visas. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Full Stack, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, JavaScript, Elasticsearch, CSS, PHP, NoSQL, Git, Ruby, Mobile, Android, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $62,500 — $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