We're looking for a Senior Ruby on Rails Developer who want to join a 100% remote team.\n\nYou'll be working on great projects such as search algorithms, ML, a mobile app with turbolinks, Rails 6 migration, service subscriptions, and every aspect of a full-blown Marketplace. This is an excellent opportunity to join a small experienced and ambitious team in a fast-growing company.\n\nSo if you’re a developer wondering where you would have the maximum impact for your presence, read on!\n\n# Profile\n\nYou love working on hard problems. You are strong at both backend and frontend web development, though you may lean towards one end.\n\nYou are highly passionate about programming and write clean, maintainable code. You always strive to follow best practices, test, and document your code.\n\nYou can work in a structured and analytic way. You have positive outlook on new technologies and a driving force to adapt and learn new trends.\n\nLast but not least, you are a team player. We highly value your social skills and capability for cooperation as we are working on a team level.\n\n# Requirements\n\n* At least 5 years experience in Ruby. Our platform is built with Ruby on Rails.\n* Good web stack knowledge. We are using AWS, Docker, Postgresql, Redis, and Elasticsearch.\n* Frontend experience such as HTML, CSS, and Javascript (Turbo, Stimulus, Jquery).\n* Show and demonstrate apps and services you built, with or without actual clients or users.\n* Ability to introduce us to at least 2 references that can attest of your previous work experience.\n* English mandatory, French appreciated (capacity or willingness to learn).\n* You adhere to the [Rails Doctrine](https://rubyonrails.org/doctrine/), the [Majestic Monolith](https://m.signalvnoise.com/the-majestic-monolith/) and you started playing with [Rails New Magic](https://hotwire.dev) as soon as the video was out.\n\nBonus points:\n* Strong Elasticsearch experience.\n* Machine Learning experience.\n* Turbo-enabled hybrid apps for iOS and/or Android experience.\n* Advanced devops knowledge with Docker, Kubernetes experience.\n\n# How we work\n\n**Remotely.** Work from your home or wherever. As long as you have a good and fast internet.\n\n**Iteratively.** We do 2 weeks sprints, daily deploys (if not more), and timely code reviews to ship quickly and minimize bugs. We are looking to use to 37Signals Shape-Up.\n\n**Collaboratively.** Monthly AHOM, written weekly, quick biweekly video status meetings. Basecamp, Github and Slack communication. Basecamp and Trello managed projects. We work as a team to help make our product better.\n\n**Flexibility.** While we strive to stick to a plan we think is best for the company, we do actively incorporate experiment learnings and business feedback into our sprints. Mind flexibility is a must-have trait in our company culture.\n\n\n# Perks & Benefits\n\n* Strong equity package.\n* International health coverage included.\n* 1 week meetup each year in a different city in Africa.\n* Up to 100 € / month for your technical books purchase on Amazon and e-learning subscriptions.\n* 100€ / month for your hardware purchase (cumulative. you can wait a year to buy the latest iPhone or 2 for a MacBook for example)\n* Up to 50 € / month on your gym subscription.\n* The freedom to work remotely and organize your day, week as you see fit. No corporate office\n \n\nPlease mention the words **SORT RACCOON POLICE** 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 $42,000 — $72,000/year\n \n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\nDESCRIPTION\n\nWorking at Spectrum you will support our mission to help transform the way doctors diagnose and treat infectious diseases. We are empowering doctors to make the best decisions, with up to date and localised clinical resources. Our team is growing fast and we have world-changing projects already on the go.\n\nWe’re not kidding, world-changing is not hyperbole - working at Spectrum you will be able to see the positive difference your work makes in Canada and around the world.\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nBacking our mobile apps is a Rails web application that provides API data to the mobile clients, and a sophisticated CRM/CMS platform. You will be working to enhance and scale this web platform.\n\nThe kind of features you will be working on might include:\n\n\n* Improve our API\n\n* Performance by implementing faster JSON serialization\n\n* Write a flexible text-parser to import varied medical device data\n\n* Extend our integration with Firebase APIs including analytics and messaging\n\n* Improve our CMS front-end UI/UX with input from a front-end designer/developer\n\n* Working with the mobile team on a new feature for mobile deployment with platform management\n\n* Refining CRM workflows\n\n\n\n\nIt is a varied role and you’ll be working on the full application stack, right across the business.\n\nHOW WE WORK\n\nWork Remotely\nOur company is headquartered in Vancouver, but are a remote team, spread across North America. We talk frequently and use collaboration tools you will be familiar with like Slack, Zoom, Github, Basecamp.\n\nFull Idea Lifecycle\nYou will be involved in the design process, working with the founders and others in the development team to scope and refine product and system concepts prior to development. Contributing thoughtfully to conversations in a positive, engaging manner should come easily to you.\n\nIndependent\nWe are a small, technically strong team. We communicate closely and enjoy working together. However, as this is a senior developer role, you will also be expected to be independent and self-sufficient. You will need to be capable of developing strong strategies to solve complex business challenges, communicating those to others, and then implementing your defined strategy.\n\nPace\nOur success to date is founded on producing high-quality software that our users love. Yet as a young company in a rapidly evolving market we need to move very fast. We typically work in 2-week cycles with multiple disciplines on a project. We try not to sprint. We value considered, well-judged, pragmatic strategies that can be acted upon quickly. You will enjoy finding the right balance between shipping your very best work, and pragmatically meeting sometimes challenging schedules.\n\nREQUIREMENTS\n\nTechnical Skills\nThe skills you will use daily include:\n\n\n* Expert knowledge of Ruby and Rails\n\n* Native JavaScript with OOP principles\n\n* Solid understanding of SQL and RDBMS\n\n* Redis and similar in-memory storage\n\n* Git for version control and collaboration\n\n* Deep experience with the web and current web technologies (HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript)\n\n\n\n\nWe have no minimum-experience requirement, but you likely have at least 5 years professionally working with Rails. Other helpful experience might include: Docker and containerization, dev-ops including working with platforms such as AWS, Digital Ocean, Azure and Firebase.\n\nTime\nThe core of our technical team are based around Vancouver, so you will need good overlap with PST working hours. This is a full-time position. We typically work 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, though your schedule will be flexible and managed by you.\n\nCanadian Residency\nAs we do a lot of work with Canadian government organisations, a requirement of this role is that you will need to be resident, with permission to work, in Canada.\n\nLanguage\nYour spoken and written English must be entirely fluent.\n\nROLE BENEFITS\n\n\n* Flexible working hours\n\n* Flexible location\n\n* Competitive salary for a senior position\n\n\n\n\nHIRING PROCESS\n\nIf this role sounds right for you, please email [email protected] with the following:\n\n\n* A message explaining why this role attracts you, and why it suits you\n\n* Your Resume/CV\n\n* Confirm your location and availability\n\n\n\n\nAfter an initial screening process, we'll schedule a video call (15-20m) to see if we might be a good fit for each other. We will then give you a take-home test, 2-4 hours work maximum. A longer video call (~1h) with some of your prospective teammates will follow. \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, English, JavaScript, Video, Firebase, API, Mobile and Medical 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