We, at **Rasayel** (https://rasayel.io), are a small, sharp-focused and deliberate team. We built Rasayel to connect businesses to the most popular messaging channels (WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, etc) out there. We started small with a stellar group of designers, engineers, and product folks. We do dream big, and we have plenty of big plans **and we have just closed our seed round with some ambitious investors in the US & EU**. We want to tackle our next set of exciting challenges in the next years to come and this is where YOU come in the picture, we want your help for us to do so. You will get to work with product, engineering and design folks who are ex **Intercom**, and **Instabug** as well as folks who built popular open source libraries like vee-validate. We are open, kind, inclusive and forward thinking. You will find zero of the big tech co bureaucracies or politics. We are all about good, calm but ambitious and meaningful work. :)\n\n**About the role,**\n\nWe are looking to hire a Founding Software Engineer to join our small distributed team team around different parts of Ireland, Egypt, and Canada. Ideally, we are looking for a generalist, someone who can wear many hats, someone who is pragmatic, a product engineer at heart and most importantly, who thinks from first principles (https://fs.blog/2018/04/first-principles). We work remotely, and so this is a 100% remote role. You can choose to work anywhere you'd like having few hours overlapping with GMT+0.\n\nHere are few pieces of work you will have a chance to work on,\n\n- Building on top of our new not-yet-fullly-launched omnichannel messaging platform.\n- Building infrastructure for hosting open source protocol messaging clients.\n- Building a Bot framework that works across all popular message channels.\n- Building a connection with new messaging platforms like Messenger, Telegram, Instagram, etc.\n- Building and releasing open source Ruby SDKs for some of the popular messaging channels out there.\n- Grokking through our GraphQL layer or measuring queries performance.\n- Rearchitecting & improving our internal messaging pipeline.\n- Building Public APIs & Webhooks for our messaging channels.\n- Get us approved for a SOC Type I and II compliance\n- And many more equally exciting and challenging projects!\n\nWe have just launched our product that have been gaining some great momentum with our customers and you'll get to be a big part of it. 🙌\n\n**About you,**\n\nA little bit about what we think can be a good fit for us,\n- You are a [product engineer](https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-product-minded-engineer/) at heart.\n- You have worked with Ruby on Rails.\n- You aren't afraid to dabble into Rails internals if you need to.\n- You worked extensively with PostgreSQL, and you can write raw SQL if you need to.\n- You worked with REST, GraphQL APIs and you can put an argument for using one over the other.\n- You aren't afraid to work with Javascript, Typescript and/or Vue.js.\n- You understand the value of writing tests, as an investment for the future.\n- You have worked with any cloud provider, preferably AWS.\n- You have worked with Docker, and preferably touched on AWS ECS.\n- You have did your some share of DevOps work. The more the merrier.\n- You write your code with empathy for your fellow Engineers, and for future readers.\n- You favour simplicity.\n- You have are self-driven, and can self-manage.\n- You can write and communicate in English succinctly. You wrote technical plans before, we do write a lot.\n- You love to take on complex problems, and you don't shy away from fixing issues.\n- You have some remote experience, and you understand its challenges.\n- You can take, and give feedback openly.\n- You are kind, and there is ≥5% a chance we will see you smile. :)\n- You like to work in a small team, and have direct ownership of your work.\n- You think of technology, not as an ideology but rather as means to push value into the world.\n\nYour engineering skills are as important as your entrepreneurial skills to us. We value generalists who can take a problem from its most ambiguous state and deliver its end value to solve a real world problem for our customers. If you reach out, leave something personal so we know you actually read this. 😉\n\n**About pay & benefits,**\n\n- Competitive **salary**, and meaningful **equity**\n- 100% remote, stress-free and friendly environment.\n- Reimbursing your monthly internet bill & fitness subscription.\n- A new laptop and the equipment that you will need.\n- Health insurance in your country of residence, or salary compensation for it.\n- We don't have middle managers, we will work to enable you be successful and get out of the way.\n- You'll have the opportunity to have a massive impact due to our size and being an early stage.\n- No recruitment agencies, and no middleman of any kind. We never go through an agency to talk to people who want to work with us.\n \n\nPlease mention the word **MARVELOUSNESS** 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 $80,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🌎 Distributed team\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide

[Whitespectre](https://www.whitespectre.com) is a product-centric,Rails-led technology consultancy for both vc funded start-ups and large, established companies across the US and Europe. We’re also a product incubator with our own applications and b2b SaaS platform. As long-term partners to our clients, we’ve played a critical role in their growth- both through the products we co-create and the expertise and processes we bring. Proudly remote first since 2013, we’re a close-knit team of 75, working in fast-moving, cross-functional agile pods to solve interesting technical challenges and drive real business impact.\n\n**What's it like to be a Senior Rails engineer at Whitespectre?**\n\nOur senior rails developers are sharp technical experts with the ability to think like product owners- being able to advocate for code quality as a long term strategic investment while knowing when to adapt a more start-up mentality to deliver rapid business value. They drive architecture and implementation decisions, mentor other engineers, and stay up to date with the latest rails techniques and trends as part of the collective Whitespectre rails brain trust.\n\nWhitespectre operates on a fully-modern tech stack- toolset includes Rails6/7, Postgres, Elastic, REST/GraphQL, ReactJS, Typescript, Webpack, CI/CD with Docker, Heroku/AWS, etc. Working smartly is important to us; automation, dynamic environments spin up with new feature branches and slack bot integrations control our production releases.\n\nThe majority of our projects involve building greenfield applications and our delivery teams typically own products end to end - your thinking and contribution make a big impact!\n\n**What else is great about working at Whitespectre?**\n\n* Interesting challenges: We’ve done everything from scaling high-performance, high concurrency backends, building beautiful (but complex) user interfaces to handling real-time event streams from hardware devices..\n* Grow everyday: Be in an environment that embraces constant learning and exploring - whether it’s a new skill, a new way of thinking, or a new product experiment, we know it’s the key to staying motivated.\n* Career progression: Get the opportunities, knowledge sharing, and mentorship to grow- whether you want to move into management or Principle Engineer. We proudly promote from within.\n* Work-life balance: Thrive at work, but know that it doesn’t take over your life. Clear processes and realistic planning avoids fires!\n* Paid Meetups: We love remote, but face to face is pretty great too. Come meet with your colleagues in Barcelona or at a local meetup.\n* Competitive rates, long-term outlook: We offer competitive rates and a long-term, full-time contract position. Many of our team members have been with us for 5+ years.\n* Want to know more? Check out [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com.ar/Reviews/Whitespectre-Reviews-E1575846.htm?countryRedirect=true)\n\n**This is the right position for you if want-**\n\n* The challenge of collaborating with business stakeholders and Product Managers to advocate for technology solutions while bearing in mind the tradeoffs for business results\n* The responsibility of designing new architectures and being confident to justify your technology decisions. (Plus debating and recognizing when a colleague has an even better idea!)\n* To solve problems that can’t be addressed by just searching Stack Overflow\n* The opportunity to go outside your core Rails expertise and strengthen skills with other technologies (e.g. Elixr, React.js or Node.js)\n* An environment where excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) are valued and honed\n* A culture where people from different backgrounds interact, collaborate and reach a shared goal\n\n**The “check the box” Requirements**\n\n* 5+ years of experience in software development, 3+ years of Rails\n* Experience contributing to technical decision making within a team\n* Can work full-time with significant crossover with the core hours: 11am - 6pm Central European Time\n* Live outside of the US. Please, no recruitment agencies.\n \n\nPlease mention the words **CHEESE STADIUM GADGET** 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 $50,000 — $90,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide