Remote Go + Junior + Rails + Ruby Jobs

**I'm looking for a full stack Ruby developer to help me build tools for startups and makers.**\n\nYou'll be working with me on these projects:\n\n* [Startup Jobs](https://startup.jobs), job board for startups.\n* [BetaList](https://betalist.com), helps startups get their first users.\n* [WIP](https://wip.co), a community of makers working in public.\n\nIt's a remote, part-time freelancing gig starting with 1-2 days per week depending on your rate. It might grow into full-time if things go well and if you're up for it. \n\n**Who you are:**\n\n* Can clearly communicate complex ideas\n* Comfortable working remote and by yourself\n* Self-motivated to ship early and often\n* Prefer pragmatic solutions over theoretical computer science\n* Minimum availability of 2 days per week\n* Ruby developer with extensive experience\n* If you have other work commitments, those allow you to work for me too\n\nThis is not a junior position. If you're not familiar with concepts like SOLID, OOP, inheritance and refactoring please do not apply. \n\n**Who I am:**\n\nI'm Marc Köhlbrugge, the founder of BetaList, Startup Jobs, WIP, and others. I'm doing a lot of different work activities (development, design, sales, marketing, etc). You'll be working directly with me.\n\n**What you'll work on:**\n\nAs mentioned before you'll work on Startup Jobs, BetaList, and WIP. The codebases are quite similar. We'll start off simple with just one codebase.\n\nYou'll be working the full stack. Both back-end (Ruby on Rails) and front-end (HTML, CSS, Javascript). You'll also design basic screens, but you don't need to be a great designer.\n\nSome examples GitHub issues that we'll be working on soon:\n\n* Replace location auto-complete on Startup Jobs with a new source because Algolia Places is deprecated\n* Allow one-click unsubscribes from WIP notifications and onboarding emails on \n* Add regular email signup to BetaList (currently only supports Twitter OAuth)\n\n**Tech stack**\n\n* Ruby on Rails 6\n* Devise, and other popular gems\n* Rspec, Capybara\n* Hotwire / Turbo / Stimulus\n* HAML (Easy to learn if you don't know it)\n* Heroku and Render for hosting (I expect minimal DevOps work)\n\n**How we'll work:**\n\nWe'll communicate via Telegram chat with maybe a call every other month or so. I prefer to work asynchronously as much as possible. We'll use GitHub Issues and Pull Requests to manage our workflow.\n\nTypically your day will start by looking at the GitHub Issues I assigned to you. They will provide a high-level view of a feature, bug to fix, etc. I'll leave it up to you of if you need more details, or are comfortable filling it yourself.\n\nIf any questions come up throughout the day, we discuss via chat. For more in-depth discussions we use GitHub Issues.\n\nOnce your PR is ready I'll review it. I might have a few questions or make some minor suggestions. After you implement them, we'll merge the PR into master and it gets deployed to production.\n\nI'm an experienced Ruby developer myself, so hopefully we can learn from each other.\n\n**What you'll get**\n\n* Money\n* Work on cool products used by people like yourself\n* First-row seat at what it's like to build a small, bootstrapped business \n* Lots of freedom and responsibility\n* Bad jokes and memes\n\n**What to expect from the interviewing process**\n\nThe interview process will be mostly async because that’s what work will be like. I'll try to provide helpful feedback if you don't get picked.\n\n**Round 1**\n\n* Ask me any questions you might have before applying ( [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) )\n* Apply by filling out the questionnaire.\n* I'll review all applicants and might ask follow-up questions\n* I'll let you know if you made it through to the next round\n\nPlease only apply if you can share a codebase you worked on. I can't assess your abilities without seeing examples. \n\n**Round 2**\n\nYou will record ~20 minute video where you walk-through some of your code. Topics to include:\n\n* An example of where you made a structural code change through extraction or another refactoring technique. Ideally you could show this using a Pull Request to make it clear what exactly changed. \n* Test coverage of some kind. Integration with Capybara/RSpec would be most relevant, but use whatever you have.\n* Show off a pragmatic solution to a technical challenge (e.g. simple solution to add a valuable product feature)\n* Basic design you came up with. I don’t expect you to be a great designer. But you might implement basic UI elements yourself without help of a designer.\n* Front-end javascript. Ideally something with Hotwire (Stimulus, Turbo, etc).\n\nOf course you're free to include this in your initial application.\n\n**Round 3 – Final**\n\nI expect 3-5 candidates to reach this stage. I will pay you to do a short pilot project. I review the work and pick a candidate. \n\nPlease mention the words **IGNORE NIGHT HIGH** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMy4xMzUuMTkwLjIzOA==). 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 $100,000 — $200,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n ⏰ Async\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\nThe Opportunity\n\nOur frontend is implemented in React, structured as an API consumer of our Ruby on Rails backend. We're in the midst of a comprehensive redesign of the look and feel of our product, and we're seeing years of foundational work realized in developer productivity and value delivered to our users. Your opportunity is to join us in implementing design principles of usability, and discoverability, and in making good on our promise to enable our users to go on better rides more often. We've built a strong presence in the cycling community over the past 10+ years, and we're committed to supporting the core features and values important to our long term supporters. We do not require prior React experience; we are much more interested in candidates who are excited about what we're building, and who can't wait to help us improve products that make cycling better for our millions of users. That said, in order to excel in this position, we do expect multiple years of experience putting complex, functional code in front of users at scale. At this time, we are not accepting junior developers.\n\nTechnology that we regularly use:\n\n\n* React\n\n* Babel\n\n* Webpack\n\n* NodeJS\n\n* Figma\n\n* CircleCI for frontend CI\n\n* Jenkins for backend CI\n\n* GitHub for version control\n\n* Existing code is traditional Rails and HAML/SASS based templating, as well as Backbone and sundry other Javascript. All new frontend development is done in React.\n\n* OpenStreetMap rendering and routing stack (mapnik, postGIS, TileMill for style dev, GraphHopper based routing). Bonus points if you have map styling experience!\n\n\n\n\nBenefits\n\nWe offer a competitive salary as well as health, dental and vision insurance, and a 401k with a 10% match. You'll be equipped with a new Macbook Pro, iMac, or Linux machine, a standing desk and any other productivity tools that are needed. We strongly believe in testing our own software, and as a result are more than happy to help defray some of the costs of cycling, including offering a one-time new bicycle stipend.\n\nIn light of the global pandemic, Ride with GPS is working remotely and offers a stipend for setting up a home office. Moving forward, employees will be able to work from home indefinitely, and we are also monitoring health guidelines and hope to offer an option to work in a shared office environment when it is safe to do so.\n\nWhat's Next?\n\nWe are based in Portland, OR and encourage residents across Oregon and Washington to apply by emailing [email protected] with your resume and an overview of any work relevant to the position. Please include at least a paragraph explaining your relationship with cycling, and optionally a cover letter with your pronouns. We'll respond in a timely manner and move things forward for promising candidates.\n\nRide with GPS is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming workplace for all members of our staff. We believe having a diverse team makes our product and our company better, and we are working to ensure our reality reflects those ideals. We invite applicants of any race, gender, sexual orientation, age, physical ability or limitation, religion, or background to apply and look forward to hearing from you. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Front End, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, Ruby, API, Junior, Excel, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $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