Rainforest QA is an on-demand QA solution. It’s our mission to enable development teams to deliver bug-free software while moving at the speed of continuous delivery. We are truly a global team, allowing us to bring together the best and most diverse talent. Our commitment to the distributed team model and to our company values has earned us [multiple culture and workplace awards](https://www.rainforestqa.com/about) and helped us build a diverse team of individuals working toward the same goal: change the way QA is done. \n\nLearn more about Rainforest QA by visiting our [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rainforestqa/), [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Rainforest-QA-EI_IE825703.11,24.htm), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/rainforestqa/), [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/RainforestQA/), and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/rainforestqa) pages.\n\n\n**Senior Engineer (Backend)**\n\nAs a Senior Engineer at Rainforest QA you'll be part of an experienced and diverse team with members all over the world.\n\nWe were built as a distributed team from the beginning and we've committed to implementing tools and processes that allow for and support continuous and effective communication across the world.\n\nWhat you'll do\n* Work on our main app, which contains the majority of our business logic and is written in Ruby-on-Rails and backed by PostgreSQL and Redis\n* Work on numerous support services (including our work scheduler and VM management system - both of which manage hundreds of thousands of requests a day) written in a variety of languages (Elixir, Golang, Crystal, Node, Python) chosen because of their suitability to the problem the service is solving\n* Work on internal tooling to improve the development experience of other engineers and ship faster and safer\n* Collaborate with product managers and our customer facing teams to analyze customer problems and design high impact features\n* Lead projects to implement those features\n* Help other team members to achieve their goals\n* Continuously learn about new technologies and ways to solve problems\n* Work with our customer facing teams to triage, troubleshoot, and fix bugs\n* Write unit and integration tests (using our own product!) to ship high quality software\n\nWhat we’re looking for\n* Extensive experience in Ruby (or equivalent dynamic language) and be extremely knowledgeable of the language and associated ecosystem\n* Extensive experience in Ruby on Rails (or equivalent framework) and be extremely knowledgeable of the framework and associated ecosystem\n* Experience in writing and debugging SQL\n* Enthusiasm for building applications using tools like Ruby on Rails, Golang, Elixir, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, BigQuery, and Kubernetes - amongst others\n* Practical experience of working on a React codebase\n* Even though this position is mainly backend focused, we expect you to have some grasp of the whole stack to be able to effectively communicate with engineers across the team, and can make frontend or infrastructure changes when the situation calls for it\n* Professional experience in engineering SaaS products\n* Experience leading projects with teams\n* An ownership mindset: you should look not only at what you’re asked to do, but ask why you’re doing it and how it impacts on the rest of the product, our customers, and whether it makes sense. We expect you to be responsible for your work and to resolve any bugs you might ship\n* Excitement to learn\n* Excellent communication skills and able to give and receive constructive feedback\n* Happy to review code and have your code reviewed\n* Can work effectively remotely with remote team members (we are a fully distributed company)\n* Comfortable working in a large codebase with many stakeholders\n\nIdentify with our company values\n* No BS, No Ego: We are radically candid with each other in every interaction. This means a lack of politics, a lack of showboating, a lack of BS. This also means brevity, clarity of thought, and clarity of communication. We give and take feedback without ego, with the knowledge that we all are operating with good intent. No ego is the check system to balance no BS and keep it kind. No ad-hominem attacks.\n* 1% better every day: Continuous improvement is what motivates us. We design our product, our organization and our careers to be continually improving. Mistakes are only bad if they are repeated. Experiments are only wasted if they are not learned from.\n* Own the journey: We are all owners. We demand that of each other. The journey we own is threefold: our customers’ journey, our company’s journey and our personal journey. Our reason for existence is to nail our customer journey, so that we can scale our company’s success.\n\nHow we'll reward you\n* Flexible, remote work options \n* Competitive salary with equity.\n* A locally-adjusted weekly allowance for lunches.\n* A locally-adjusted monthly allowance for remote office supplies or personal development.\n* Unlimited paid-time off.\n* 3 offsites per year: every ~4 months we arrange an offsite for the whole company to get together so we can get to know our colleagues better and understand what we need to do. The location is ever changing, so you will get to see some new places!*\n* currently on-hold due to COVID-19 \n\n**United States Residents Only:**\n* 100% medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage. 75% for dependents.\n* Voluntary 401k program.\n\nOUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION\n\nAt Rainforest QA we believe that diverse teams improve our business. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. \n\nPlease mention the words **FOSSIL SITUATE BIOLOGY** 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 $50,000 — $170,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide

\nLooking for an individual who is very experienced in React and Ruby on Rails to work on two existing websites. \n\n- - -\n\nYour work will be centered on the development of a large-scale web application built with Ruby on Rails, Docker, Webpack, and React with a custom CMS and PostgreSQL database.\n\nYou'll be tasked with writing both back-end and front-end application code to build out the site, add features and functionality, debug, and oversee all new development.\n\nCandidates should be comfortable on either end of the tech stack, adept at complex problem-solving, and able to hit the ground running as the primary developer on a project.\n\n—Responsibilities—\n• Writing maintainable, modular front-end code in React.\n• Using and refining front-end build scripts using Webpack.\n• Writing back-end code in Ruby for a Ruby on Rails server-side web application framework.\n• Managing a Docker Container and configuration for multi-tier development environment.\n• Working with PostgreSQL database and related back-end technologies.\n• Following Git and GitHub best practices to maintain a clean and well documented, version-controlled codebase and managing issues and milestones on deadline.\n• Overseeing all project DevOps such as code deployments on regular sprint cycles and build script configurations.\n• Our staging and production servers are both hosted on AWS EC2 instances so responsibilities will include maintaining those hosting environments which run Docker with an Nginx reverse proxy for handling incoming requests.\n\n—Requirements—\n• At least three years of experience as a full-stack web developer working with Ruby and React, end-to-end.\n• Deep expertise and understanding of modern web development technologies and concepts such as HTML, CSS/SASS, JavaScript, APIs, cross-browser compatibility, accessibility, and mobile-first web development.\n• Proficiency with Rails-based content management systems and authorization systems.\n• Understanding of relational database systems, object-oriented programming, and cloud computing services.\n• Hands-on experience with the AWS ecosystem and maintaining unmanaged servers.\n• Comfort with the terminal, running command-line based utilities, and shell scripting (e.g. Bash).\n• Excellent communication skills in both verbal and written English.\n• Proven success in a lead developer role. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, React, Ruby, Full Stack, Web Developer, Developer, Digital Nomad, DevOps, Cloud, Git and Nginx 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

Immediate need to debug project using Ruby on Rails and Docker\n\nLooking for an individual who is very experienced in React, Ruby on Rails, database migration, and Docker.\n\nThis is an existing project that needs someone to figure out existing, difficult roadblocks... with potential for continued work on the site.\n\n- - -\n\nYour work will be centered on the development of a large-scale web application built with Ruby on Rails, Docker, Webpack, and React with a custom CMS and PostgreSQL database.\n\nYou'll be tasked with writing both back-end and front-end application code to build out the site, add features and functionality, debug, and oversee all new development.\n\nCandidates should be comfortable on either end of the tech stack, adept at complex problem-solving, and able to hit the ground running as the primary developer on a project.\n\n—Responsibilities—\n• Writing maintainable, modular front-end code in React.\n• Using and refining front-end build scripts using Webpack.\n• Writing back-end code in Ruby for a Ruby on Rails server-side web application framework.\n• Managing a Docker Container and configuration for multi-tier development environment.\n• Working with PostgreSQL database and related back-end technologies.\n• Following Git and GitHub best practices to maintain a clean and well documented, version-controlled codebase and managing issues and milestones on deadline.\n• Overseeing all project DevOps such as code deployments on regular sprint cycles and build script configurations.\n• Our staging and production servers are both hosted on AWS EC2 instances so responsibilities will include maintaining those hosting environments which run Docker with an Nginx reverse proxy for handling incoming requests.\n\n—Requirements—\n• At least three years of experience as a full-stack web developer working with Ruby and React, end-to-end.\n• Deep expertise and understanding of modern web development technologies and concepts such as HTML, CSS/SASS, JavaScript, APIs, cross-browser compatibility, accessibility, and mobile-first web development.\n• Proficiency with Rails-based content management systems and authorization systems.\n• Understanding of relational database systems, object-oriented programming, and cloud computing services.\n• Hands-on experience with the AWS ecosystem and maintaining unmanaged servers.\n• Comfort with the terminal, running command-line based utilities, and shell scripting (e.g. Bash).\n• Excellent communication skills in both verbal and written English.\n• Proven success in a lead developer role. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, React, Ruby, Full Stack, Docker, Web Developer, Developer, Digital Nomad, DevOps, Cloud, Git and Nginx 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

We’re looking for a proactive, self-directed, and experienced technical team lead to help us commercialize our in-house online programmable survey application. If you have experience as a team lead/ lead developer on a Rails project, you are native or fluent English speaking, and you’re looking for a leadership position with autonomy and flexibility then this is the right position for you.\n\nThe product has been developed in-house and utilized by our research team for the past 2 years, with plans to enhance and improve it in order to make it a commercial application. It’s built with Ruby on Rails, React.js, PostgreSQL and Heroku. We also integrate with various third-party APIs including Facebook, Twitter and Google.\n\nOur small, agile, development team is distributed and our main business office is on the US East Coast, so daily availability to meet online during US Eastern Timezone morning business hours (or earlier), as well as at least 4 hours of overlap with Central European Time business hours (3AM-12PM EST) is required.\n\nKey responsibilities:\n- Sprints planning\n- Release pipeline orchestration\n- Code review\n- Back-end: Ruby\n- Front-end: Jsx (react); Sass; Es6\n\nMust haves:\n- Experience as a lead developer in a moderately complex environment - must have at least 2 years of recent experience as a team lead/lead developer for teams of 3 or more developers, including experience with code reviews, automated deployments, review apps, version control\n- Experience and desire to be proactive at improving both software code and the software development processes\n- Ruby on Rails\n- Good verbal communication skills\n- Organized and detail oriented\n- Experience with a SQL-based database\n- Experience supporting production environment\n- Git\n- Continuous integration\n- Scrum\n- Integration and Unit Testing\n- Ability to work on a complex product with a small agile team\n\nGood to haves:\n- API integrations\n- OAuth 2\n- Working with business stakeholders\n- React.js and Redux\n- PostgreSQL\n- Heroku\n- Experience connecting and integrating development tools (deployment, project management, version control, slack)\n- Degree in Computer Science/related field\n\nNice to have:\n- Kanban\n\n \n\nPlease mention the words **SHARE SURGE EDIT** 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 JavaScript, React, Git, Ruby, Heroku, Testing, Executive, Scrum, English and API jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n