Remote Developer + Lead + Quality Assurance + Rails + Ruby 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 (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yMg==). 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

\nAt Verys, our software engineers have the ability to own their projects and build their experience across tech stacks and industries.  We build software to be proud of for clients like Blizzard, American Airlines, Kia, and Experian. \n \nRight now, we’re looking to welcome a new Software Engineer to join our team in Orange County, CA.  In this role, you will work alongside technical leads, developers, QA analysts, and project managers to deliver the quality code that’s lead to our stable growth over the last 7 years.\n \nIf you are excited by solving complex challenges and growing your career within an innovative software services company, we’d love to hear from you!\n \nSkills & Requirements\n\n\n* You’re smart, adaptable, and love picking up new skills.\n\n* You are highly proficient with application development using Ruby on Rails.\n\n* You have experience with Javascript, HTML, CSS, jQuery, and js frameworks such as React or Angular.\n\n* You are knowledgeable regarding Jenkins.\n\n* You have solid knowledge of relational databases.\n\n* Bonus points if you are familiar with Consul\n\n* You communicate well with teammates and clients, and your experience backs that up.\n\n* You are self-driven and capable of working autonomously.\n\n* You have at least 3 years of similar experience under your belt. \n\n\n\n\nWe Offer\n\n\n* Competitive compensation based on your skills\n\n* Learning resources like Udemy, Saisoft, and internal development meetups\n\n* An awesome culture with opportunities to meet like-minded people; whether you’re into gaming, reading, hiking, or craft food and drink, there’s a club for that.\n\n* Philanthropic events to get involved in the community\n\n* Competitive medical, dental, and vision coverage\n\n* Flexible hours and paid time off\n\n* 401K matching\n\n\n\n\n \nThis position can be done remotely or out of our office in Santa Ana, CA. Please note that we do not work with third parties or provide sponsorship at this time. We are excited to review your application! \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Ruby, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad and React jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $130,000/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

\nAbout Headway\n\nFounded in 2015, Headway was born out of a passion to bring entrepreneurial ideas to market and keep them there. We work holistically with our client partners as a true extension of their product team, not just as the technical execution arm of their business. If we see something broken, whether that's a workflow, a marketing or messaging strategy, or a needless feature, we speak up, and our clients trust us to help them fix it.\n\nBecause we're more than just designers and developers, we achieve results that bring successful long-term partnerships and trusted referrals. We help entrepreneurs build a business not just an app. This approach, coupled with realistic and incremental software releases results in a friendly, fun, and collaborative atmosphere where our colleagues and clients both have room to learn and grow.\n\nSee how our clients talk about our approach and check out some of the recognition we've received so far. Discover how we show our clients appreciation with unique holiday gifts each year. Or, if you're a podcast fan, check out Seaworthy, where we explore ways to help companies grow and scale their business and ideas. We're excited about what we've achieved in the last few years, but we're just getting started. We need your help to take us to the next level!\n\nA Day In The Life\n\nDuring a typical work week, our crew members enjoy a balanced assignment of 35 hours on client projects with the ability to invest the other 5 hours on a combination of individual goals and team meetings. Each quarter, we take a full week away from client work to focus on team goals and internal project initiatives. These weeks alternate between a retreat style destination that encourages team bonding and goal setting, and a more focused week-long design and development sprint at our primary office in Wisconsin. Check out some of our team week recaps and years in review to get a feel for how much fun it is to work at Headway!\n\nWhat Does Success Look Like?\n\nDuring your first 2-4 weeks at Headway, you'll have an opportunity to meet with lots of crew members across the company and start to understand our unique approach to product development. This includes several "Headway 101" sessions that cover everything from our project management style, to our design aesthetic and business analysis approach, to development tools and techniques. If you're new to one of our tech stacks, we'll also create a customized trail of exercises to help get you up to speed. This training covers fundamentals of our core technologies, the way we delegate tasks within a development team, our git process and workflow, testing strategies, tips for successful client interactions, and much more.\n\nAfter this initial period, you'll be successfully contributing to new feature work on a client project in the context of a team. You'll also be participating in daily standups, sprint planning meetings, and retrospectives. Welcome aboard!\n\nOngoing Support\n\nEach week, you'll meet with your team lead to ensure that you have the time and attention you need to be successful. Your needs and questions will always come first in this meeting, but other topics discussed include:\n\n\n* Individual quarterly goal progress\n\n* Project status / team issues / weekly retro\n\n* Individual responses to our weekly team health questionnaire\n\n\n\n\nQuarterly and Annual Reviews\n\nIn addition to weekly touch point meetings, more formal quarterly reviews are scheduled to discuss successes and areas for growth identified over the last 3 months. We have annual performance assessments and salary reviews, though we reserve the right to provide a merit based pay raise at any time. Most crew members achieve between a 2% and 5% raise each year within their same role, but bigger jumps are possible when roles or responsibilities increase. We're here to grow with you sustainably over the long term.\n\nExperience and Results At Every Level\n\nWith an experienced leadership team encompassing design, development, sales, marketing, and operations, Headway is poised for an amazing 2019. Our business is guided by EOS and we have strong processes, documentation, and people to support your growth and development. As they say, “Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.” For more on that, check out our benefits!\n\nWhy Should You Apply?\n\n\n* Work on exciting projects in the latest tech across a variety of industries including: Healthcare, FinTech, Education, Personal Growth & Training, Lifestyle & Social\n\n* Collaborate with colleagues and clients directly to ship features that users love\n\n* Work with appreciative clients who seek out and value your input and feedback\n\n* Strong leadership and top-notch colleagues to help you realize your full potential\n\n* Career growth and leadership opportunities\n\n\n\n\nKey Benefits\n\n\n* 3 weeks of PTO & Sick Time available immediately\n\n* 1 week of additional time off during the winter holiday season\n\n* 100% of health care and dental premiums paid for you and all your dependents\n\n* Up to a 4% matching 401k contribution based on your dollar contribution\n\n* $6,000 hardware on-boarding budget including $2,000 to spend however you like\n\n* $2,500 annual education and conference budget\n\n\n\n\nThe Hiring Process\n\nIf after we review your application and we choose to move forward, the following interviews will typically take place over the course of 1-3 weeks (depending on scheduling):\n\n\n* Work history and aspirations chat with our People and Team Strategist\n\n* Skills and performance discussion with a Development Lead or the Head of Development\n\n* Take-home skills assessment with the potential for follow up / discussion / remote pairing at this stage\n\n* Group interview with several members of the design team and/or development team\n\n\n\n\nPosition Description\n\nAs a Developer at Headway, you are client and user focused while executing on the details of each project. You diligently develop features and functionality, guided by Headway's process to ensure each release is successful. This role requires constant learning and a growth mindset.\n\nWhen communicating with clients during sprint planning, retros, and release demos, you help monitor features as project requirements change, and direct emergent requirement discussions back to the core focus of a minimum viable product (MVP). In doing so, you help manage client expectations and project scope, ensuring we build the most valuable features first.\n\nResponsibilities\n\nAs a Senior Developer / Tech Lead at Headway, you are responsible for executing within the Headway development process with a focus on client and user needs including:\n\n* Setting the project development direction consistent with Headway technology and standards.\n\n* Creating architecture diagrams, flowcharts, and ER diagrams to increase the team's understanding of project scope and support the overall development process.\n\n* Helping to enforce development process and consistency across the team.\n\n* Performing development critiques and QA on pull requests ensuring Headway development process is followed.\n\n* Suggesting refactoring that will help curb technical debt and grow knowledge across the team.\n\n* Conducting pairing sessions to help developers learn and grow while also evaluating their craft, including: efficiency, adherence to process, and overall professionalism.\n\n* Performing QA of both internal code quality, interfaces, architecture, tests, and external end-user UI/UX.\n\n* Interfacing with clients during sprint planning sessions and retros to ensure projects are on track and on budget.\n\n* Driving all meetings and development activities from the outside-in with user story mapping and MoSCoW prioritization.\n\n* Helping assess potential hires for technical ability and team fit for future positions at Headway.\n\n\n\nHelp us make a difference, make waves, and make Headway!\n\nRequirements\n\n\n* 4+ year of paid, professional Ruby on Rails experience (required), with Elixir/Phoenix and React experience a plus.\n\n* Experience leading project teams of both internal and external stakeholders.\n\n* Excellent communication skills (verbal and written).\n\n* The ability to present your work and stand firm for the right reasons.\n\n* Experience working with businesses at various phases of creation and growth a plus.\n\n\n\n\nExpectations\n\n\n* You live by our Guiding Manifesto and embody the core values of Headway.\n\n* You are open to criticism from your team and are always eager to learn and to share knowledge.\n\n* You have the ability to think big while being detail oriented and delivery focused.\n\n* You are self-motivated and able to deal with pressure and work well in a fast paced environment.\n\n* You have an outgoing, personable, and sociable attitude.\n\n* You have initiative to solve challenges, meet goals, and set new directions based on data.\n\n* You are capable of inspiring colleagues and clients.\n\n* You have a passion to create useful and valuable solutions.\n\n* You prioritize and attend our quarterly team weeks on-site at our primary office in Wisconsin, or at an awesome TBD destination.\n\n\n\n\nNext Steps\n\nIf this sounds like you, we’d love to have you apply! We're a remote-first company so this position is open to developers local to the Green Bay, WI area, and anyone living in and able to work in the US. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Ruby, Senior, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, Education, Git and Marketing jobs that are similar:\n\n $62,500 — $125,000/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