Whitespectre is hiring a
Remote Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
[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 (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xMg==). 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
# How do you apply?\n\n**Interested in applying?**\n\nApply [here](https://apply.workable.com/whitespectre/j/6545ED9A1E/) or email us with any questions on
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