Remote Developer + Rails + Ruby + Senior + Teaching Jobs

\nAbout West Arete\nWe're a B Corporation building mission-critical custom software for higher education.\nWe believe that the best software comes from empathetic, knowledgeable developers working directly with subject matter experts. \nWe believe that life is too short to spend our working years on anything but projects that make a positive impact.\nHere are some projects that we've worked on:\nThe Living Wage Calculator - The design may not look like much, but it has a massive impact in government and corporate policy -- it helped to give thousands of employees a raise overnight.\nBetter Kid Care - This is the application that provides the online training for the bulk of the nation's child care providers, teaching them about the safety, health, and development of our country's children. \nWe're also a Catalyst partner of Internet2, the nation's largest and fastest network that connects our country's leading research institutions, powering everything from particle physics research to neurosurgery.\nSkills & Requirements:\nWe're looking for someone with at least 4 years of experience in this field.\n* Strong Javascript\n* Strong React Native\n* Strong UI/UX\n* Cross platform (iOS, Android)\n* Experience with Expo (desired, but strength in JS and RN more important)\n* Test-driven development experience is a plus.\n\n\nKey Qualities & Responsibilities:\n* Communicative. You work directly with informed product owners and play a primary role in project management.\n* Confident. You're comfortable wading into the unknown.\n* Savvy. You are quick to understand new models and concepts.\n* Creative. You often spend more time designing an experience instead of writing code.\n* Mentoring and apprenticing. You are continually learning and sharing your knowledge with others.\n* Driven. You are intrinsically motivated to structure your own work in the way that you know you can do it best.\n* Entrepreneurial. You will "fail" your own experiments and then improve.\n* Versatile. You enjoy working on novel and rotating projects.\n* Professional. You relentlessly improve software craftsmanship and client relationships.\n\n\nWork Environment\n* We believe that a diverse team of individuals is stronger than one with a homogenous world-view.\n* We're 100% remote. Finding the best talent requires searching outside your zip code. \n* We give our team a huge amount of personal flexibility to manage demanding work.\n* We encourage extra-career-cular activities.\n* Each individual plays a significant role in shaping the company.\n\n\nThe Usual Benefits:\n* Health Insurance\n* Dental Insurance\n* IRA Retirement Plan w/ 3% match\n* 4 weeks Vacation Time\n* 2 weeks Absent Time (for sick days and personal days)\n* 5 Federal Holidays\n* 2.5 Volunteer Days\n* Parental Leave\n* Term Life Insurance\n* Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance\n\n\nThe Unusual Benefits:\n* The Mandatory Sabbatical - Expect a fully-paid, fully-unplugged, mandatory 3-week sabbaticalevery year (yes, in addition to your vacation time) to pursue whatever personal dream you'd like.\n* CHAMP - A small bonus program for those who set and complete personal fitness goals.\n* Blacksmiths - A small bonus program for those who want to refine and improve the tools we use.\n* COVID-19 Plan - Unlimited time-off if you contract COVID-19, which does not take from sick days or vacation PTO.\n\n\nHelp us look toward the future\nWe were one of the early firms to be using Ruby on Rails professionally, and we were pretty early on the Scrum, DevOps, and TDD bandwagons, too. Help us discover the next generation tools and techniques--and help us responsibly incorporate them into our projects.\nWe can't wait to meet you. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Mobile, Senior, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, Teaching and Ruby 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

## About Us\n\nRazeware is the company behind [raywenderlich.com](https://www.raywenderlich.com/), the most popular iOS development site on the Internet. We're a small 10-person company that has been profitable for 7 years, and we're all remote - with folks in Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and England! :]\n\n## About the Job\n\nWe are seeking a senior full-stack engineer to help us make a major overhaul of [raywenderlich.com](https://www.raywenderlich.com/). \n\nOur web stack is based on Rails 5, deployed via Docker on AWS, code reviewed through GitHub and CircleCI, and deployments are done by a single command to a Slack bot. We're always looking at how we can improve, and are currently evaluating React and Redux as possible ways to improve the UX on our front-end apps.\n\nYou'd be working with a small team of one other senior engineer, and one designer, so you'd have tremendous influence on the project and engineering at Razeware in general. This is a great chance to work on a green-field project with some great developers using lots of exciting new tech, and to take an already popular site to the next level! :]\n\n## Skills & Requirements\n\n- 4+ years of software engineering experience\n- Experience with Ruby-on-Rails\n- Demonstrable knowledge of architecting microservice-like platforms\n- Deep understanding and interest in a wide range of technologies and design patterns\n- Experience with front-end technologies—React and Redux a bonus\n- Top-notch 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- Desire to learn new technologies\n- Interest in / experience of teaching programming\n\n## What's In it For You\n\n- Remote working: live anywhere - no time tracking - set your own hours!\n- Health insurance and 401K match (US only)\n- Generous PTO - plus 1-week company-wide Christmas vacation\n- Competitive salary\n- Professional development (conferences & training)\n- Free trip to our annual conference - [RWDevCon](https://www.rwdevcon.com/) \n\nPlease mention the words **BETTER ORDER CHOICE** 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 No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Ruby, Senior, Full Stack, Docker, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, Teaching and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $130,000/year\n

\nBackground\nFaria Education Group specializes in building and operating software systems for use in international education. The main products are ManageBac and OpenApply . We are a remote-first company that values diverse teams. The worldwide technical team behind these products are spread between Taiwan, United States and Ukraine. We have additional technical staff in the\nUnited Kingdom, Germany, and Canada.\n\n\nWe now have an excellent opportunity for the right person to join our Boston team to handle targeted development tasks across a variety of our products. This is a mid-level to senior position, working as part of a team to deliver high-quality, fully-tested code on a demanding timescale.\nCurrently we are a Ruby on Rails shop, though you may have the chance to explore additional technologies as our systems mature. We use a variety of other software in production including Rails, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Memcached, and more.\n\n\nRole Description\nThis is a high-level, full-time position. We are a remote-first company but you will be expected to meet on a regular basis with other team members in Boston, as well as to work closely with developers on our Ukraine team. We expect you to be able to contribute to the development of high-quality software solutions and to efficiently manage your time to provide\nvalue throughout the company. \n\n\nYou must already be experienced with web development using Ruby on Rails, and have experience using and creating API solutions. You will need to quickly grasp existing code, and contribute to codebases with respect for the processes of existing teams. We also value high- quality UI/UX work that matches our emphasis on customer service.\nResponsibilities\n * Implement new features in applications across our suite.\n * Implement UI/UX specs from our design team.\n * Ensure high-quality fully-tested code is committed to shared repositories.\n * Troubleshoot customer issues, suggest and implement solutions.\n * Work effectively with other teams worldwide.\n \n\nCommunication\n * Because we are a global company, effective communication is essential:\n * Communicate with other parts of Faria Education Group including product teams, QA, design, support and marketing.\n * Proper remote presence & etiquette through Slack, BaseCamp, GitHub and other systems.\n * Adherence to operating procedures with timely follow-ups to avoid surprises and dropped work.\n * You will report to our Principal Developer in Boston, who reports directly to the VP of Engineering.\n \n\n\n\nLocation and Hours\nThis is a full-time job in the Boston area. We are flexible on working hours, but you will be expected to participate in core team hours as defined by your team lead. We are currently expecting to hire three developers into our Boston-based team. We will consider exceptional candidates from outside of the Boston area, but we are prioritizing building up a new location in order to gain the benefits of face-to-face work as well.\nBecause of the global nature of our business, you should also be prepared for conference calls outside of business hours. Potential emergency situations can call for support at any hour, though we work hard to minimize those situations.\n*Please note: Due to a high volume of applicants, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.*\n\nBenefits\n\n * Salary negotiable, expected range USD 75K-100K/year\n * Performance bonus tied to meeting key deliverables and milestones\n * Health insurance (US)\n * Company-supplied laptop (Retina MacBook Pro or other)\n * Books ('unlimited within reason') and conference attendance budget. We expect you to have a plan for professional development.\n * Remote-first environment with shared workspace\n \n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Teaching, Education, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, Ruby, API and Senior jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $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

\nUniversity of Notre Dame\n\nSenior Software Engineer\n\nThe University of Notre Dame (http://ND.jobs) is accepting applications for a Senior Software Engineer.\n\nApplications will be accepted until 1/12/2016.\n\nThe Hesburgh Libraries' Sr. Software Engineer plays a central role in the ability of the library to cater technical solutions to the needs of the university in its mission to advance scholarship, learning and research. This position proactively architects reliable back end data services and infrastructure which anticipates the evolving information needs of students and faculty members. Responsibilities include the design and implementation of scalable applications and software components, engagement with library constituents in negotiating the diverse research and learning needs of the university, as well as communicate with and educate library staff, faculty and administrators regarding emerging trends in technology in order to meet goals and strategic initiatives. Incumbents also have the responsibility to research as well as implement current trends and innovations in both library technology and technical industry best practices and standards. The position also requires a high degree of accountability, and thus requires that individuals working in this position manage project time lines, deliverables, and resources to ensure that planned objectives are met.\n\nDuties include:\n\n• Design, implement, test, deploy and support a wide range of software applications in support of core library objectives.\n\n• Architect and implement robust and dependable infrastructure components, data services, and software integration services.\n\n• Engage with library faculty and staff, university teaching and research faculty, as well as students at all levels in order to ensure that library software and web related services are meeting the needs of the library and the university.\n\n• Plan and manage project tasks, update documentation, work with quality assurance and usability professionals.\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\n\n• BA or BS degree\n\n• Experience developing scalable web applications and web services\n\n• High degree of experience with web technologies and standards such as HTML , CSS and Javascript\n\n• Experience designing and using relational databases and/or no-sql datastores such as MongoDB\n\n• Experience with object oriented software design principles\n\n• Use of version control systems such as git, subversion or Bitbucket\n\n• Use of web based APIs and service oriented architecture\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\n\n• Strong software integration skills\n\n• Strong skills related to Ruby on Rails and related scripting languages\n\n• Experience with software testing methodologies such as unit testing, integration testing and acceptance testing\n\n• Experience with javascript frameworks such as Angular.js, Ember.js, React and related testing methodologies\n\n• Experience with web related scripting languages such as PHP , Python, Perl\n\n• Experience with web application scalability, performance and related technologies such as caching, proxying and micro services\n\n• Experience with cloud deployment into services such as AWS and related services\n\n• Familiarity with agile software development principles\n\n(*LI-POST )\n\nABOUT NOTRE DAME:\nThe University of Notre Dame, founded in 1842 by Rev. Edward F. Sorin, C.S.C., of the Congregation of Holy Cross, is an independent, national Catholic university located in Notre Dame, Ind. For the fifth consecutive year, the University of Notre Dame has received Honor Roll distinctions as one of the top 10 higher education workplaces in the country in the Chronicle of Higher Education's annual 'Great Colleges to Work For' survey...and we are proud of it!\n\nThe University of Notre Dame seeks to attract, develop, and retain the highest quality faculty, staff and administration. The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to building a culturally diverse workplace. We strongly encourage applications from female and minority candidates and others that will enhance our community. Moreover, Notre Dame prohibits discrimination against veterans or disabled qualified individuals, and requires affirmative action by covered contractors to employ and advance veterans and qualified individuals with disabilities in compliance with 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-300.5(a).\n\nAPPLICATION PROCESS:\nPlease apply online at http://ND.jobs to Job # http://apptrkr.com/720947. For additional information about working at the University of Notre Dame and various benefits available to employees, please visit http://hr.nd.edu/why-nd. The University of Notre Dame supports the needs of dual career couples and has a Dual Career Assistance Program in place to assist relocating spouses and significant others with their job search.\n\njeid-71037c9b077a8147bceedcc36882ca69 \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, Teaching, JavaScript, Education, Cloud, CSS, PHP, HTML and Ruby 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