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*Salary listed is a placeholder. Compensation depends on your skills, experience and cost of living.*\n\n**Our Mission**\n\nWe help pets and their humans to lead safer, healthier lives together.\n\n![](https://www.fitbark.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/FitBark_Carlin_Aussie_02-uai-584x389.jpg)\n\nFounded in 2013 and backed by Techstars and T-Mobile, FitBark is a data-driven pet tech company on a mission to get pets and their owners healthy and safe together. We design pet wearables that help humans in 140+ countries to get actionable insights into their petโs location, activity, quality of sleep, calorie expenditure, mobility, skin conditions, anxious behaviors and overall health.\n\n![](https://www.fitbark.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/FitBark_Dog_Veterinarian-uai-584x389.jpg)\n\nOur products include Bluetooth-enabled pet health monitors, as well as Wi-Fi and cellular-enabled GPS trackers. We develop all our wearables in house, including PCB design, firmware, data analytics, iOS, Android, web and smartwatch apps. Our platform has been adopted by 100+ vet schools and research institutions to validate new drugs, foods, procedures and medical treatments.\n\n![](https://www.fitbark.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FitBark_Apple_Watch_App_Composition_Gray-uai-584x389.jpg)\n\nWe are headquartered in Kansas City, MO in the heart of the KC Animal Health Corridor. We are a remote-friendly team with employees in the United States, Europe and Asia. We stand for a smarter breed of pet owners. We insist on beautiful design, insightful data, remarkable technology. If you believe you would thrive in a nimble, asynchronous, bureaucracy-free organization that is leading the charge in transforming animal and human health, weโd love to hear from you.\n\n![](https://www.fitbark.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/FitBark-Explore-Sleep-Efficiency-900x717.jpg)\n\n**Your role at FitBark**\n\nOur engineering team is looking for a pet friendly, experienced, self-motivated senior engineer to help us architect and code to an efficient server backend for our next-generation pet health and GPS trackers. You will work with our team on new architecture that supports fun and insightful mobile and web apps with an emphasis on usability and performance.\n\nThis is a 100% remote position that requires at least 4 hours of overlap with our Kansas City team, based in US Central Time (CST/CDT). To interact with the team, you'll need a webcam and a stable internet connection. International candidates are welcome to apply.\n\n**How you'll improve the lives of pets and humans**\n\n* Architect, develop and deploy our data processing and analytics platform, which serves key data to our mobile, smartwatch and web apps, as well as universities, research partners, pharmaceutical companies, pet insurance companies and other commercial partners\n* Collaborate with our engineering team to extend new functionality to our apps\n* Identify performance bottlenecks, defining and implementing solutions to address them\n* Drive continuous improvement in overall system architecture including quality, performance and effectiveness of the backend infrastructure\n* Create and maintain technical documentation of private and public API\n* Report directly to our CTO\n\n**Essential skills**\n\n3+ years recent experience in:\n* Ruby on Rails\n* API design and implementation\n* MySQL or PostgreSQL scripting\n* AWS (EC2, RDS, VPC, SQS, and ELB)\n* Design, coding and debugging\n\n**Desirable skills**\n\n* 3+ years experience building and deploying robust, scalable backends\n* Working knowledge of DBMS including MySQL, Oracle or SQL Server\n* Previous work analyzing large amounts of data (intelligence, statistics, data mining)\n* Working knowledge of machine learning techniques\n* BA, BS or MS in related fields of application\n\n**Bonus points for**\n\n* CI/CD experience\n* Working knowledge of Nginx and Passenger\n* Knowledge of JavaScript/jQuery, CSS\n* Front-end development experience \n\nPlease mention the words **HARSH ACTRESS SWAMP** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMTguMTkxLjQ2LjM2). 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
$30,000 — $60,000/year\n
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\n\n#Location\nWorldwide
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