\nAt Prolegis, we're on a mission to inform policymakers and empower citizens to level up democracy.\n \nProlegis provides free, non-partisan, world-class tools that help policy professionals to legislate, regulate, and govern smarter, and offers free public resources which demystify government and shed light on constantly evolving policy issues.\n \nLaunched by invitation in 2020, Prolegis is steadily growing its user base within the federal public policy community. Feedback from our current community of users confirm that our products save people time, surface comprehensive information that is difficult to find, and provide useful insights into complex topics.\n\n\nAs a Junior Rails Engineer, you will be working within a tight-knit team of engineers to help push the Prolegis application forward. You'll be responsible for building and maintaining our server-side architecture and your work will directly impact the work of policy professionals engaged in the complex effort of debating and crafting legislation and regulations.\n\n\nQualities We're Looking For\n\n\nProblem Solving: Our product is solving novel problems. You can break down large problems into a clean plan, and you can work with your teammates to systematically find the right solution\n\n\nPragmatism: You believe pragmatism trumps novelty, and can choose frameworks and libraries without losing sight of the tradeoffs in any architectural decision. You put aside ideologies to work towards the bottom line\n\n\nEmpathy: You always approach your work with the mindset of the user, and focus on their needs with everything you build. You consider dissatisfaction to be a weakness of the product, not a weakness of the user\n\n\nStrong Communication: You communicate well in an asynchronous format. You know when to ask for help, and how hard to push. You clearly articulate technical decisions, and you take creative risks when brainstorming ideas. During disagreements, you understand others' perspectives and thoughtfully work towards a solution\n\n\nGrowth Mindset: You are intrigued by new challenges, approach your work with joy, and have an indelible eagerness to learn\n\n\nKey Responsibilities\n\n\nDesign and implement features, improvements, and fixes\n\n\nPursue knowledge about the stack, the product, and the user's needs\n\n\nTest your work in the form of automated tests, as well as working through edge cases and self-QAing your work\n\n\nGive thoughtful feedback during code review, and thoughtfully receive feedback\n\n\nQualifications\n\n\n1+ years of experience with Rails\nFamiliar with relational databases\nKnowledge of testing best practices\nExperience with Git and continuous integration methodologies\nExperience using and explaining data structures and their various tradeoffs\n\n\nOur Stack\n\n\nProlegis uses a variety of technologies throughout our product. They include:\nRuby on Rails\nPython\nElasticsearch\nJavascript\nTypescript\nReact\nPostgresql\nGit\nAWS\nHeroku\n\n\nCompensation and Benefits\n\n\nCompetitive salary\nStock options in an early-stage, fast-growing start-up\n25 days of annual paid time off\nRegular compensation reviews\nComprehensive health insurance for you and your dependents\n\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Testing, Git, Junior and Engineer jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n ⏰ Async\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote