Remote Developer + DevOps + Ruby + SaaS + Senior Jobs

# Senior Backend Developer (Ruby)\nAt DBL we're looking for a Senior Backend Developer (Ruby) to join our team.\n\n## About the job\nWe are a remote-first company builder working in the aviation and maritime industries. We're currently hiring for a Tech Lead and a full-stack developer for a new SaaS product which will help ship owners optimize their emissions profile under various new regulations.\n\nAs a senior developer, you are someone who can see projects through from beginning to end, coach others, and self-manage. We’re looking for an eager person who can bring our team to the next level with their technical knowledge, people skills, and real-world experience.\n\nOn the technical side, we are looking for extensive experience building APIs (we use Ruby) and complex UIs (we use TypeScript and Vue/React). Experience with DevOps (AWS services, Terraform) is a plus but not required.\n\n\n## The Stack\n* Ruby and Sorbet as a backend language\n* Postgres, Redis\n* Amazon Web Services (RDS, ECS/Fargate, Cloudwatch)\n* Bonus: TypeScript, Vue or React, Tailwind CSS for frontend\n* Bonus: Experience building data pipelines\n\n## How we work\n* Our biweekly sprint planning call is our only regular meeting\n* For complex features, write a design doc before coding\n* All code goes through code review, reviews are split out evenly across the team\n* A dedicated "runner" fields ad-hoc requests and bug reports each week, so that everyone else can focus\n* We use Tuple for pair programming\n\n## About you\n### Technical Skills & Experience\n* You've built complex apps in a Ruby on Rails + modern frontend stack before, with a codebase optimized for performance and scale\n* You've designed & shipped large applications with many components and data structures\n* You have a proven ability to design interfaces that stand the test of time, showing anticipation of future product changes\n* You have experience integrating complex third party APIs\n\n### Personality\n* You are able to handle ambiguity, and can push projects forward even when there is not a clear best path\n* You see things through from start to finish\n* You can manage yourself but you also work well with others\n* Fluent English and an excellent communicator\n \n\nPlease mention the word **ADMIRING** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yNTA=). 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 — $130,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nwithin ±3 hours of CET

### Key details\n**Pay**: £400-600 per day\n\n**Working pattern**: The contract can be made for 3 or 4 days per week, depending on your preference\n\n**Start date**: Flexible, either now or in January, depending on your availability\n\n**Duration**: Six to twelve months freelance contract\n\n**Location**: Remote in GMT +/- 3 (Offices in London and Berlin)\n\n### About us\nChangeLab is a worker-owned, democratically-run co-op building ambitious tech for NGOs, progressive political parties and campaigning organisations worldwide. We work with organisations like the British Labour Party, Unite the Union, 38 Degrees and Change.org to help them win progressive change. A few of the things we’ve done so far: \n- Helped elect the first ever BAME leader of any political party in the UK, Anas Sarwar, Leader of the Scottish Labour Party with our collaborative calling software\n- Helped the National Education Union survey safety precautions in schools during the Coronavirus pandemic, allowing the union to force the government to protect teachers and landing our tool on the frontpage of the BBC, Evening Standard, and more \n- Helped enable tens of virtual conferences during the Coronavirus pandemic for trade unions and NGOs with over 1,300 participants debating and voting simultaneously\n\nWe’re now moving from bespoke software development to building out impactful SaaS products that help progressive campaigns win. Our main fields of work now are:\n- Ringround, enabling volunteers to collaboratively call and text voters and supporters, already used by Keir Starmer’s campaign to become Labour leader, Freedom from Torture & more. \n- Democracy, a live video conferencing & voting platform, used by many UK trade unions to enable their annual conferences capable of supporting up to 3,000 delegates in real-time video communication, as well as offering voting and breakout sessions\n- Pinpoint, a tool enabling hundreds of personalised Facebook ad creatives to be targeted to different regions and/or custom segments, to increase conversions and impact\n- ShareHarder. A tool to improve organic social growth, allowing users to optimise the images and text that are displayed on Facebook when a user shares their website.\n\n**Learn more on our [website](https://changelab.io) (https://changelab.io) and [GitHub](https://github.com/changelab-hq) (https://github.com/changelab-hq).**\n\n### Who we’re looking for\nWe’re looking for a freelance senior developer with Ruby on Rails and React experience who is available for six to twelve months. We’re looking for someone who we can build a long-term working relationship with, who can build a deep familiarity with our products and codebases. \n\nYou will be working across all of our core products at different stages. Our primary development scheduled for the immediate future is focused on the Ringround product, but there is ongoing development happening on each of the products. We are a small team, and are looking for someone flexible, who enjoys getting to grips with a variety of codebases and taking steps to actively improve them.\n\nSince we’re a worker-owned co-op, if we all enjoy working together, there is a path after a year to becoming a full partner in the business with an equal ownership stake as the rest of us, along with the responsibility and benefits that provides. \n\nHowever, it’s not mandatory - if you’d rather keep freelancing, then that won’t affect your application or how we work together at all. \n\n### You’ll enjoy this role if:\n- You want to use your technical skills to make real progressive change\n- You enjoy working in a small team and seeing the impact of your work day-by-day\n- You enjoy solving technical problems \n- You like to prototype and experiment with new technology\n- You’re quick on your feet and experienced applying a range of approaches to debugging issues that arise\n- You’re pragmatic about when applying “best practices” will pay off versus when it’s just box ticking\n- You’re motivated by seeing your code running in production and having a positive political impact\n\n### Our technology stack\nWe work primarily in Ruby on Rails for back-end and React for front-end. Most of our applications have a heavy real-time component or are complete SPAs, so we use a lot of websocket communication backed by Pusher, Anycable and Redis. We have been actively working on a library, called Jason, which allows us to subscribe the frontend to updates from any Rails model as soon as it is edited, with almost no boilerplate code required.\n\nWe also enjoy working with telephony and video technologies - Ringround integrates heavily with many aspects of Twilio’s infrastructure and Democracy uses the video API platform Vonage.\n\nGenerally we keep deployment as simple as possible, relying on Heroku and AWS services such as RDS and S3, so DevOps requirements are fairly light. \n\n### Essential skills and experience\n- 3+ years professional full-stack web development experience\n- Ruby on Rails\n- React, using the new Hooks API\n- Rspec\n\n### Nice to have skills and experience\n*Note: We don’t expect any applicant to have all of these - so don’t be put off applying if you don’t!*\n- Redux (or similar state management libraries)\n- Previous experience building real-time apps using WebSockets\n- Browser testing using Cypress, Selenium or similar\n- Javascript testing using Jest\n- Working knowledge of key AWS services\n- SQL for analytics\n- App monitoring and performance analysis using NewRelic\n- Machine learning experience with tabular data using libraries like XgBoost or LightGBM\n- Twilio\n- Vonage\n \n\nPlease mention the word **RECTIFICATION** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yNTA=). 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 $100,000 — $150,000/year\n \n\n#Location\neurope (+/- 3 hours GMT)

**About Area**\n\nArea is the leading (pun intended) lead management automation software for the property industry. We provide Software as a Service (SaaS) that manages enquiries from multiple sources, self-service tools for consumers and detailed audit reporting for directors and managers of estate agencies.\n\nArea was founded in 2015 by experienced estate agents and seasoned technology veterans. We have now processed almost a million enquiries and are the beating heart of hundreds of leading estate agents.\n\nWe partner with other leading companies in the property technology space such as Reapit, Moneypenny, Kerfuffle and Relocation Agent Network to create integrations that simplify and modernise estate agencies.\n\n**Senior Rails Developer**\n\nArea is essentially a type of CRM system for estate agents that is used to manage and engage with consumers. Our software sits between the agency's website, property portals and other CRM systems. Our services are built in Ruby on Rails and run on AWS. Almost 500,000 consumers engage with the Area platform each year so you’ll be working on a well-established product and interacting with an experienced management and product team. \n\n**The Role**\n\nWe are looking for a solid Rails developer with experience in DevOps and an interest in building B2B2C software with a focus on the end-user. This is very much a get your hand's dirty startup role where you will be able to take ownership and work in an agile fashion. We’re a remote-first company that’s flexible with working schedules, but we’re all about getting things done. We value working smarter rather than simply working harder or longer. We’ll try to meet up a few times a year but other than that you can work from anywhere +/- 5 hours time difference so we can have some overlap with you.\n\n**Must Haves**\n\n- Able to speak and write in English (intermediate to advanced)\n- A strong understanding of Ruby on Rails (5.X specifically)\n- At least 3 years commercial experience working with Rails \n- At least basic knowledge of deploying and monitoring production systems in Amazon AWS\n- Solid understanding of relational databases (we use Postgresql)\n- A proactive and positive team-based approach to investigating and resolving issues on a live system\n- Strong testing skills ideally with RSpec\n- Self-motivated and able to manage own workload\n- Experience working in remote and/or startup teams\n\n**Nice To Haves**\n\n- Experience with UX, UI and product development\n- Experience with third-party services like Twilio, Pusher, Sendgrid, Redis, Papertrail, Cloud66\n\n**The Benefits**\n\nArea is committed to fostering an inclusive and positive working environment, with lots of opportunities to engage with your colleagues, albeit remotely most of the time. You’ll also have the opportunity to influence the business and be part of a fast-moving startup with continuous growth opportunities.\n- Competitive salaries without the need to work in an office or commute\n- A coworking space membership so you can focus on your work\n- An equipment allowance (we like Macs) so you have the best tools\n- A skills development budget (e.g. courses or books) to keep you sharp\n- Flexible holiday allowance and personal days as required\n\nBy sending us your application you agree to us using your personal data for recruitment purposes. We are storing this data in our recruitment software, which is fully compliant with GDPR/EU data protection laws. If you are unsuccessful in your application for this role, we may keep your details on file so that we can get in touch with you about other suitable vacancies which may be of interest in the future. If you would rather we did not keep your details on file for this, please let us know. \n\nPlease mention the words **MOBILE ACTRESS PRISON** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yNTA=). 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 $60,000 — $90,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\nLeadfeeder is a fast-growing international SaaS startup, headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. We are an international remote team of 80+ members from around the world.\nWe've developed an online service which automates sales lead generation for B2B companies. Leadfeeder helps over 3000 paying customers to identify who visits their website, qualify the leads based on their behaviour, and convert the most promising visitors into sales leads.\nOur 30+ strong in-house, all-remote engineering team is responsible for developing new features, and otherwise improving and maintaining the Leadfeeder product.\nWe are organised in feature-oriented, cross-functional squads. Each squad is responsible for specific features of the product, and works tightly together with high autonomy. Depending on the product area, squads are comprised of Backend and Frontend Engineers, Designers, and are always paired with a Product Manager. We believe in listening to everyone's ideas and feedback no matter what your role is, you get to have a say in the product and technical decisions of your squad.\nRuby on Rails developers at Leadfeeder work mainly on our backends: building APIs, background data processing flows, and integrations. Being a very data-intensive application, much of the work on the Leadfeeder backend involves optimising and effectively using various databases Cassandra, AWS RDS & Aurora, Elasticsearch and Redis, to name a few.\nOur backend, we run multiple small-to-medium-sized Ruby on Rails apps and use serverless components (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Kinesis) on the side. We pride ourselves on keeping apps working smoothly, and the codebase tidy and well-tested. We dedicate time for upgrades, refactoring and improvements in the developer experience.\nFor people with skills and interest, we offer possibilities to work on our Ember.js frontend too, enabling people to grow to a fullstack role. Equally, there are opportunities to learn and be involved in infrastructure, DevOps and serverless development.\n\n\nResponsibilities\n * Developing new features together with your squad \n * Build internal and public APIs\n * Build, benchmark and optimise our core backend components\n * Helping operate our production environments on AWS\n * Providing code reviews to your peers\n \n\n\nBenefits\n\n * Get to work in a talented, remote-first international team\n * Chance to make an impact on a global product\n * Actual work-life balance with healthy 40-hour work weeks\n * Flexible work time\n * Biannual company retreats\n * Competitive salary\n * Friendly and encouraging work environment\n \n\nOur hiring process:\nAfter we've received and reviewed your application, there are a number of stages in our process: * Initial video call. You'll get to learn more about the role and our company, and we'll learn how you communicate and what are you looking for in the job.\n * Technical interview. Qualified candidates proceed to our technical interview, where we ask more in-depth technical questions.\n * Home assignment. We'll test your coding skills in building a small application. You can do this at home on your own time. The assignments usually take about 4-6 hours to complete.\n * Assignment review and skills interview. After our team has reviewed your assignment, we invite you to the next interview. We'll provide feedback and ask questions about your code. This interview also includes some pair-programming, where we do some improvements or additional features to your project.\n * Culture interview. The final step before decisions. Great cultural fit is highly important in our remote team. We also want to give you as much as possible information on how it is to work at Leadfeeder and what our culture is like.\n \n\n\nAll interviews are done remotely over video calls, but of course if you happen to be in the same city with some of our team members we're happy to organize a meeting on site.\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, Senior, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, DevOps, Video, Elasticsearch, Serverless, API, Sales, SaaS and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $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