Remote Developer + Rails + Ruby + Travel + UI Jobs

\nAbout Prota:\nWe are an operator-investor group that brings experience, capital, and talent to bold ideas. Our teams utilize time-tested approaches, strategic thinking, story-driven design, and rock-solid engineering to bring digital & physical products to market, including IoT, blockchain applications, AI, and other emerging technologies. \nEvery member of Prota is expected to bring a genuine entrepreneurial spirit to the table; many of our product ideas are generated internally and brought to market in collaboration with our incubation partners, which include both large enterprises and new founder teams. \nThis is a remote, full-time position, starting with a contract evaluation period. We are a remote and distributed organization with teams centered mainly around Chicago and Seattle. \nImportantly, we include our team members in much more than just their domains of work. We value human flourishing, education, and a multidisciplinary approach to problem solving. We strive to include everyone - as they are available/interested - in all aspects of business development, design, engineering, and marketing across our organization. \nAbout Prota Studios:\nProta Studios is not a typical consulting agency. As a key part of the Prota ecosystem, Prota Studios exists to support entrepreneurs of all stripes, from solo founders to intrapreneurs looking to innovate within larger corporations. Accordingly, our approach to engagement structure is extremely flexible. Some projects may be more traditional, cash-only consulting engagements, while others may involve equity and other incentive alignment mechanisms.\nAdditionally, we use a portion of Prota Studios margin to invest directly back into the entrepreneurship ecosystem, providing early funding for founders to rapidly experiment with new ideas and concepts. This is a core part of the Prota Studios mission and serves as another way we support entrepreneurs and founders at every stage of their lifecycle.\nResponsibilities:\nAs a Ruby on Rails Developer, your primary responsibilities include:\n\n* \nDevelop server-side architectures and APIs with Ruby on Rails, leveraging best-practices\n\n* \nArchitect databases (primarily PostgreSQL) and data I/O from 3rd-party APIs\n\n* \nSetup DevOps infrastructures (AWS/Heroku/Firebase)\n\n* \nEnsure responsiveness, performance, and scalability of applications\n\n* \nWork with small teams of developers and designers - in collaboration with other managers and stakeholders - to bring a project to completion.\n\n* \nParticipate in the overall application lifecycle while focusing on coding and debugging\n\n* \nBuild high-quality, reusable code \n\n* \nTroubleshoot and debug applications\n\n* \nStay up to date with current best practices\n\n* \nBuild UI tests, unit tests, and integration tests\n\n* \nCollaborate with a multidisciplinary team of entrepreneurs\n\n\n\nRequirements and Qualifications:\n\n* Entrepreneurial drive and proven product sensibilities: we regularly create, develop, and work with startups\n\n* 5+ years of experience as a back-end developer, including at least 3+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails\n\n* In-depth understanding of web development\n\n* Critical thinker and problem-solving skills\n\n* Team player with an attitude of leaving the campsite better than we found it and weve got each others back state of mind\n\n* Good organizational and time-management skills\n\n* Participation in regular project stand-ups even with potential time zone challenges\n\n* Meet project deadlines\n\n* Effectively communicate with peers, superiors, and stakeholders\n\n* Make rational, logical decisions and the ability to defend them to your peers, superiors, and stakeholders.\n\n* Take responsibility for your work and mistakes.\n\n\n\nLife at Prota / Benefits:\nWe are a fully remote organization, with team members around the world. While the plurality of the organization spends some time in Chicago, there is no location requirement as long as you have a space to work and a good internet connection. We normally meet in person 1-2x per quarter, which may necessitate travel depending on your location. \nWith Prota, youll be able to control your own destiny with a compensation model that allows you to work flexible hours on a wide variety of projects, get exposure to multiple disciplines outside of software engineering, and have the opportunity to earn equity in startups. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Ruby, Developer, Digital Nomad, DevOps, Travel and Marketing jobs that are similar:\n\n $67,500 — $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

\nSquaremouth's mission is to take complicated insurance products and allow customers to easily compare them to find exactly what they need for peace of mind as they travel away from home - and our engineers are an essential part of building that experience.\nSquaremouth is looking for an experienced and motivated Rails developer who wants to help plan and build the next generation of our infrastructure. You will use the latest web standards in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Ruby on Rails to build web applications to work across all devices. We are looking for a team player who can work in a highly collaborative environment. They will teach themselves, learn from others, and take ownership of their successes and challenges. The ideal candidate should have an intrinsic desire for personal growth and professional success.\nEvery person spends time troubleshooting bugs, reviewing other people's code, supporting customer service while on-call, and deploying updates to production. This allows all of our developers the opportunity to understand our entire system from beginning to end. The Squaremouth team promotes a collaborative environment using industry best practices, such as weekly iteration planning meetings, Continuous Integration, code reviews, and Continuous Deployment. Peer critiques and constructive criticism allow the development team to grow and learn at a fast pace.\nWhat you will do:\n* Write Ruby, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS to add new functionality to our application\n* Work on complicated performance problems to improve our current systems\n* Help architect UX and UI components to modernize existing interfaces\n* Explore new languages, frameworks, and other technologies to improve user experience\n* Use automated testing with continuous integration to validate the functionality of the code you write\n* Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to other members of the team\n* Mentor our other developers on development best practices\n* Autonomously lead and design larger projects to improve our website and administrative backend\n\n\nExperience and skills that are important for success in this position:\n* Experience in web application development with Ruby on Rails\n* Ability to work independently, arranging your work to meet deadlines\n* Passion for growing your skills, tackling interesting work, and challenging problems\n* Energetic, positive attitude\n* Ability to work within a team, collaborate on projects, and share responsibility\n\n\nIt would be great if you had experience with:\n* Building large, performant web applications using Ruby on Rails\n* Creating REST or GraphQL API endpoints\n* Building and maintaining a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) or microservices\n* Machine learning or other AI related technologies\n* Docker and other related tools such as docker-compose, and Kubernetes\n* Exposure to programming with GoLang or PHP\n* Experience with AWS services and their APIs\n\n\nWho we are:\nSquaremouth is a fast paced and exciting company that strongly encourages employee input and ideas. Our team believes in delivering perfection while doing less. We aren't afraid to experiment with our work or our business. Our owners get their hands dirty every day and generously share company profits. Squaremouth has the energy of a startup with the stability and profitability of an established business.\nThis small company suffers no bureaucracy. Most of what we do is a group effort including interviews and pay raises. With this uniqueness comes the dedication to the Squaremouth way, best described as the constant pursuit of perfection, unfettered attention to detail, incredible customer service and a burning desire to do things better tomorrow.\nSquaremouth is a leader and supporter of the local software development community, founding and regularly hosting the Fort Wayne OpenHack meetup.\nBenefits\n* Competitive salary based on experience\n* Revenue share\n* Unlimited paid vacation\n* Paid medical\n* 401(k) match\n* Mandatory birthday off with $200 beer bonus\n* Automatic CPI increase every January\n* Paid parking\n* Involvement in major Squaremouth decisions, including pay raises and new hires\n* Normally optional work from the office days on Tuesday and Thursday. Due to Covid, we are currently full time optionally in the office.\n\n\nNo agency or freelance inquiries please. Local candidates only. \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, CSS, API, Travel and Golang jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $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

**Area is modernising the user experience of buying and renting a home. We’re a platform for estate agents and their customers that makes it easier and faster to get things done. Area is an early stage, fully-remote and revenue-generating startup (based out of London). The team you’ll work with were the engineering and product VPs at Yoyo Wallet who laid the groundwork for it to become Europe’s fastest growing mobile wallet.**\n\nArea’s clients include some of the best-performing estate agents in the UK and over 10,000 customers interact with Area’s software each month (and may not even know it). If the words “estate agent” put you off, they shouldn’t! Our clients love us because we’re industry outsiders and we challenge the status quo. Most of the problems and challenges we're solving are no different than those at other early-stage startups.\n\n**The Role:**\n\nWe are looking for a remote software engineer with experience building commercially-deployed Rails applications to join us as we scale-up our infrastructure, engineering team and product. This is very much a get your hands dirty start-up role rather than a clock in-and-out role. As it’s remote, there is lots of flexibility around your working schedule, but we’re all about getting things done, so you’ll need to pull your weight. With that said, we value working smarter instead of harder and finding balance.\n\n**Must Haves:**\n\n* Extensive and current understanding of Ruby on Rails\n* Good track record of working on commercial-deployed projects\n* Experience building and deploying AWS-based environments\n* Fluent English speaker (with above-average writing skills)\n* Driven to create structured and well-tested code\n* Self motivated and able to manage your own workload\n\n**Nice To Haves:**\n\n* Experience working in partially- or fully-remote teams\n* Experience with Angular, React or Backbone\n* Experience with iOS and/or Android development\n* Interest in or experience in UX, UI and product development\n\n**The Benefits:**\n\n* Work from wherever you want (fully remote role)\*\n* Monthly remote working budget (e.g. coworking space rent)\n* Yearly skills development budget (e.g. courses or books)\n* MacbookPro and accessories you need to do your job\n* £45k - £75k\*\* per year depending on your skill set and experience\n* Private pension contributions (subject to UK residency)\n* Flexible holiday allowance and personal days as required\n\n\* You may need to adjust your working schedule to have a minimum of 2-4 hours overlap with other team members.\n\n\*\* Or negotiated equivalent contractor rate if you do not have/are not able to get a UK NI number.\n\n**The Process:**\n\n1. Please tell us about your experience and why you’re interested.\n1. Initial call with the CEO to learn more about each other\n1. Second call with the CTO to learn more about each other\n1. Short pair-programming session to see how you work in action\n1. If it's a good fit, we’ll make you an official offer in writing\n1. If you accept, we’ll meet up in person for on-boarding\*\*\*\n\n\*\*\* Either we’ll fly to you, you fly to us or we meet somewhere in between. Of course reasonable travel expenses would be covered. \n\n# Requirements\nPlease write to us at [email protected] and ensure you tell us about your experience, linking to anything relevant we should look at and why you would be interested in join us. \n\nPlease mention the words **FAINT OLD TAXI** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4xNDY=). 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, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, English, Travel, Mobile and Android jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $120,000/year\n