Remote Content + Developer + Junior + Rails + Ruby Jobs

### About us\nRazeware is the company behind raywenderlich.com, the most popular mobile development site on the Internet. We are a bootstrapped company with 22 full-time team members, and we work with a wide network of over 300 part-time contractors from around the world who help create tutorials, videos, and books for our site. Our entire company is remote, and this job is too.\n\nOver the past 10 years, our community has published over 5,500 videos, 2,000 articles, and 50 books. Our products have made a difference in the lives of thousands of developers across the world, helping them to get their first job as a mobile developer, grow their careers, or create the app of their dreams.\n\nThe engineering team has the responsibility for the entire content pipeline—from our automated publication process through to the reading/watching experience for our users. Some of the things we’ve accomplished in the past year include:\n- Creating a new Enterprise e-learning product to support larger teams.\n- Creating an achievements/badges feature to provide customers with a sense of accomplishment during their learning journey.\n- Redeveloping the user homepage to improve user experience.\n- Iterating on improving the accessibility of the site.\n- Converting a selection of vue.js components into using hotwire.dev.\n- Integrating a message bus across several services for real-time notifications.\n- Upgrading Ruby and Rails to the latest versions across the entire stack.\n\n### We are looking for\nWe are looking for an experienced senior developer to join our engineering team, alongside two designers and an operations developer. Over the past three years we’ve built a content publication platform that makes it easy for our content creators to get their books, videos and articles in front of our audience. We’re now turning our attention to improving the learning experience, making accessing the content easier, more intuitive, and engaging. We have big plans for the platform, and need to scale our team in order to achieve them.\nIdeal candidate\nYou are a problem solver who is keen to use their skills to build an eLearning experience that will help mobile developers across the world. You enjoy learning new things, applying yourself to a variety of different problems, and creating clean, pragmatic solutions. You embrace change and want to join a team that puts in the effort to learn from one other and help each other grow through effective communication and openness.\n\n### Responsibilities\n- Architect and deliver features to improve the experience of our community and customers.\n- Assist in the design, implementation, and improvements of the application infrastructure.\n- Plan and perform duties in an asynchronous manner using various documentation tools available.\n- Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team on technical design.\n- Mentoring and managing junior developers.\n- Partake in code reviews to improve the quality of our codebase.\n- Work with the wider Razeware team to help shape products and features.\n- Maintain and manage our existing services.\n- Assist the support team.\n- Contribute to internal tools and development processes to shape the future of engineering at Razeware.\n\n### Requirements\n- 5+ years of experience of delivering high-quality projects in Ruby-on-Rails.\n- Experience with multi service architectures.\n- Experience leading projects from conception to launch.\n- Experience mentoring junior developers.\n- Strong communication skills.\n- Strong analytical skills—the ability to weigh costs & benefits and arrive at a sensible compromise.\n- Strong problem-solving ability—in a technology agnostic manner.\n- Ability to self direct and prioritize work as needed.\n- Desire to learn new technologies.\n- Ability to thrive in a remote environment.\n\n### Nice to have\nOur stack is built on the following technologies. They’re not requirements, but if you’ve got some knowledge, that’s great. You can read a little more about it [here](https://engineering.razeware.com/how-does-raywenderlich-com-work).\n\n- Docker & Kubernetes.\n- Multi-service architecture with Ruby on Rails\n- Hotwire & vue.js.\n- AWS.\n- PostgreSQL.\n\n### What we offer\n\n- Remote working. Work when and where you want, provided you can manage a three-hour overlay with the standard 9-5 EST workday.\n- $90k–$110k salary USD.\n- A premium health plan starting on your first day.\n- SIMPLE IRA retirement plan with matching starting your first day (US only).\n- Generous paid time off.\n- Equipment budget.\n- Professional development budget for work-related learning materials.\n- Work with a friendly, motivated & unique team.\n- Mentorship and guidance from across our engineering team, including our CTO.\n\n### Inclusivity\n\nImagine having the opportunity to work every day with professionals from North America, Europe, across Africa and other diverse teams around the world. At raywenderlich.com, this is a typical experience, as we build collaborative teams with the best talent from all over the world.\n\nOur goal is to create a friendly and inclusive community of developers and educators. We welcome anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, disability, physical ability, race or religion.\n\nOur team connects from nearly every continent, and we’re proud of the diverse perspectives and experiences they bring from the tech industry to provide the best working and learning environments for each other and our learners.\n\nAligned with our company value of “supporting each other,” last year, we have made a public commitment to examine our own habits and biases as a company, and do our best to support equity in our industry. We welcome applicants who share our vision of diversity and inclusion as we strive to create the most high-quality content for developers world-wide.\n \n\nPlease mention the word **SATISFACTORILY** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjU=). 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 $90,000 — $110,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n ⏰ Async\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\nWe have a vacancy for a junior to mid-level Ruby on Rails / React Developer to join us on a full-time basis. You'll work as part of our industry-leading agile development team and collaborate closely with our in-house product owners and content experts on new features across our aviation app ecosystem.\n\nIf this sounds of interest, and you're passionate about creating clean code via a test-driven approach to software development, we'd love to hear from you (an interest in aviation will be a bonus!... But we can always work on that!)\n\nThe Role\n\n\nOn a day to day basis, you’ll be involved with the following:\n\n\n* Writing efficient, reusable and reliable Rails & React code using Test Driven Development and agile XP\n\n* Taking wireframes/mockups and user stories and build systems that meet the requirements\n\n* Challenge our Product Owners, where you have ideas for better ways to achieve the user stories - we love honest and constructive interactions!\n\n* Code reviewing your team member's code and offer suggestions for improvements - we're all looking to continually learn better ways to do things\n\n* Participating in our weekly demo-retro-planning sessions with the Product Owners and take an active part in our developer stand-ups\n\n* Contributing to creating a dynamic and fun culture of writing excellent software with open & honest team communication\n\n* Working effectively both remotely and on-premises in a selected post-COVID co-working space (we're very flexible on how much of each location)\n\n\n\n\nRequirements\n\nIdeally, we’re looking for someone with the following:\n\n\n* Junior to mid-level experience with Ruby on Rails and React across multiple projects\n\n* A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related subject is desirable\n\n* A right to live and work in Spain (and/or Europe)\n\n* Exceptional level of spoken and written English\n\n\n\n\nApplication Process\n\nOur 3-part selection process consists of:\n\n1. Initial phone chat with our HR team (30 mins)\n2. Remote code test (2-3 hours at your convenience)\n3. Code pairing, interview with management & meet the team (1/2 day)\n\nFor part (3), we provide a €150 Amazon or Apple gift card as a thank-you for your commitment to the process.\n\nThe Benefits of working with Use Before Flight\n\n\n\n* Competitive salary\n\n* Permanent Spanish contract\n\n* Flexible hours and location - we all have a life to juggle!\n\n* 22 paid leave days per year plus two days at Xmas + all national holidays based on Madrid calendar\n\n* Annual equipment allowance\n\n* Annual professional studies allowance\n\n* A fun working atmosphere working amongst an enthusiastic and dynamic team\n\n* We offer long-term career prospects with opportunities to develop – we're really going places, and the job is what you make it!\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 JavaScript, React, Ruby, Junior, Developer, Digital Nomad, Amazon and HR jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $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

We understand that you are not waiting for the next pitch about becoming the ‘gem’ in the crown of a rockstar Ruby development team, they eye catcher on the King of Gitflow’s scepter or being on the rails towards success.\n\n*Ahum. Here it comes.*\n\n## Did you hear about Silverfin?\n\nFirst of all, we build a hell of a product and our customers love us. Even our customers’ customers love us. \n\nSilverfin solves a very real problem: it automates and supercharges a large chunk of the repetitive tasks that people working in financial services spend their time on while improving communication with their customers at the same time.\n\n## What about your team?\n\nAll development teams at Silverfin are organized to focus on a certain area, service or functional domain - your mission will be bootstrapping third-party integrations, building advanced migration tooling, designing & setting up application frameworks as well as developing a third-party ecosystem based on our Silverfin API.\n\nYes you will be joining a team in full expansion which means there are a lot of choices yet to be made. This includes building out open sourced content to showcase our API’s towards integration partners, customers and other fintech companies.\n\nSome creativity will be required to make the lives easier of your team members by creating tooling and services. You will be contributing to the Silverfin community and be an ambassador of our API’s by building libraries, showcases, integrations and POC’s.\n\nWorking on integration also means interacting with others and bringing engineering excellence towards customers and partners to bring them up to speed quickly so you have more time for the fun stuff - coding!\n\nWe are a global company, this team is partially rooted in our Gent office while full remote working is certainly possible but we do hope you can visit our office to meet us once in a while.\n\n## What are we looking for?\n\nWe’re looking for somebody who’s a natural born coder, team player, takes ownership of the team’s mission and resonates with our culture:\n\n* You need to be experienced in both Ruby and Rails and also know where the boundaries lie between them. You need to be able to code in Ruby without any of Rails’ training wheels.\n* You enjoy mentoring juniors and giving in-depth feedback during code reviews. While you appreciate the small stuff, you recognize bikeshedding and can avoid its pitfalls.\n* You code with reason, document and can justify the important decisions you made during development.\n* You know and apply best practices. That means the usual like version control, testing, and refactoring; but also good object-oriented design, DRY, SRP,…\n* You're aware of the trade-offs involved in proper engineering and can make balanced business decisions, keeping in mind all the stakeholders of the project.\n* You’ve got opinions on code design and you can stand by them, but you’re professional enough to not let them get in the way of a consensus if necessary.\n* You have good knowledge and foresight of potential performance issues that might arise when working with large datasets.\n* We’re not only working with our own API but also a bunch of external parties who speak JSON, REST, XML, or SOAP. You can not be afraid of WSDL and advanced XML parsing.\n\n## What we offer\n\n* Actual, proper work-life balance\n* Become a part of a new team in an expanding company\n* A stimulating work environment with passionate, friendly and inclusive colleagues who value diversity\n* A €1.000 yearly budget to spend on conferences, courses, workshops or other expenses that will improve your skills\n\n## Requirements\n\n* You have at least a couple of years of professional experience working with Ruby\n* You love working on improving and maintaining a test-driven project\n* You join us in Ghent or work fully remote with a maximum of 3 hour time difference\n\n## Good to have\n\n* Experience as a mentor for junior developers\n* Experience in Fintech\n* Accounting knowledge \n\nPlease mention the words **STICK ACQUIRE ATTRACT** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMjU=). 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 $74,000 — $123,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide