Remote Lead + Leader + Rails + Ruby + UX Jobs

\nSquaremouth's mission is to take complicated insurance products and allow customers to easily compare them to find exactly what they need for peace of mind as they travel away from home - and our engineers are an essential part of building that experience.\nSquaremouth is looking for an experienced and motivated Rails developer who wants to help plan and build the next generation of our infrastructure. You will use the latest web standards in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Ruby on Rails to build web applications to work across all devices. We are looking for a team player who can work in a highly collaborative environment. They will teach themselves, learn from others, and take ownership of their successes and challenges. The ideal candidate should have an intrinsic desire for personal growth and professional success.\nEvery person spends time troubleshooting bugs, reviewing other people's code, supporting customer service while on-call, and deploying updates to production. This allows all of our developers the opportunity to understand our entire system from beginning to end. The Squaremouth team promotes a collaborative environment using industry best practices, such as weekly iteration planning meetings, Continuous Integration, code reviews, and Continuous Deployment. Peer critiques and constructive criticism allow the development team to grow and learn at a fast pace.\nWhat you will do:\n* Write Ruby, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS to add new functionality to our application\n* Work on complicated performance problems to improve our current systems\n* Help architect UX and UI components to modernize existing interfaces\n* Explore new languages, frameworks, and other technologies to improve user experience\n* Use automated testing with continuous integration to validate the functionality of the code you write\n* Participate in code reviews and provide feedback to other members of the team\n* Mentor our other developers on development best practices\n* Autonomously lead and design larger projects to improve our website and administrative backend\n\n\nExperience and skills that are important for success in this position:\n* Experience in web application development with Ruby on Rails\n* Ability to work independently, arranging your work to meet deadlines\n* Passion for growing your skills, tackling interesting work, and challenging problems\n* Energetic, positive attitude\n* Ability to work within a team, collaborate on projects, and share responsibility\n\n\nIt would be great if you had experience with:\n* Building large, performant web applications using Ruby on Rails\n* Creating REST or GraphQL API endpoints\n* Building and maintaining a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) or microservices\n* Machine learning or other AI related technologies\n* Docker and other related tools such as docker-compose, and Kubernetes\n* Exposure to programming with GoLang or PHP\n* Experience with AWS services and their APIs\n\n\nWho we are:\nSquaremouth is a fast paced and exciting company that strongly encourages employee input and ideas. Our team believes in delivering perfection while doing less. We aren't afraid to experiment with our work or our business. Our owners get their hands dirty every day and generously share company profits. Squaremouth has the energy of a startup with the stability and profitability of an established business.\nThis small company suffers no bureaucracy. Most of what we do is a group effort including interviews and pay raises. With this uniqueness comes the dedication to the Squaremouth way, best described as the constant pursuit of perfection, unfettered attention to detail, incredible customer service and a burning desire to do things better tomorrow.\nSquaremouth is a leader and supporter of the local software development community, founding and regularly hosting the Fort Wayne OpenHack meetup.\nBenefits\n* Competitive salary based on experience\n* Revenue share\n* Unlimited paid vacation\n* Paid medical\n* 401(k) match\n* Mandatory birthday off with $200 beer bonus\n* Automatic CPI increase every January\n* Paid parking\n* Involvement in major Squaremouth decisions, including pay raises and new hires\n* Normally optional work from the office days on Tuesday and Thursday. Due to Covid, we are currently full time optionally in the office.\n\n\nNo agency or freelance inquiries please. Local candidates only. \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, CSS, API, Travel and Golang jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $125,000/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

\nImagine working on a global communication network that’s used by 3.7 billion people and every day more than a quarter trillion messages cross this network. There’s just one problem: Because authentication isn’t built into this platform, nobody can be certain who is sending most of these messages. This gap means that companies are vulnerable to a whole host of attacks on their employees, partners, and customers. Whether it’s wire fraud, W-2 thefts, or “fake news” in an attempt to destroy a brand, companies have been powerless to protect themselves against these impersonation attacks.\n\nValimail solves this problem. We’ve built a revolutionary platform on top of open standards — DMARC, DKIM, and SPF — that for the first time makes it possible for any organization to protect itself against email impersonation. Valimail pioneered the notion of automated email authentication, with innovative components like our DNS-based Authenticator (including our patented Instant SPF). Our system enables organizations to authenticate their email quickly, easily, and reliably.\n\nWe’re committed to building a more trusted email ecosystem by being a leader in Email Authentication as a Service. As part of that commitment, we’re active participants in the open source and standards communities. We’re co-authors of open standards like ARC and BIMI, and contribute to a variety of open source projects that serve the wider community.\n\nAs Valimail’s Lead Ruby on Rails Engineer, you’ll be a major contributor to the company’s success. You’ll share in the design, development, and deployment of major pieces of the Valimail system. Your technical contributions will help protect dozens of brands, authenticate hundreds of millions of emails every day, and protect people all over the world from fraud.\n\nIf you like the idea of working on planetary-scale messaging systems with some of the latest tools and making a difference in the lives of half the world’s population, we’d love to talk to you.\n\nWhat You'll be Doing\n\n\n* Design, document, build, and maintain performant APIs in Ruby on Rails that underpin our products and are consumed by 3rd party developers\n\n* Nurture a high performance small team by helping our developers through pairing and code reviews, and sometimes holding learning sessions in the team\n\n* Give and receive constructive feedbacks\n\n* Work with UX designers and frontend engineers, so we can provide them with excellent foundations for them to build world-class products\n\n* Make technical judgement calls to balance time we invest and values we intend to bring to the world, while keeping our code base sustainable, and reduce surprises\n\n* Constantly improve our development practices\n\n\n\n\nAbout You\n\n\n* Extensive experience working with gems in the Ruby/Rails ecosystem (e.g. Devise, Pundit, etc.).  \n\n* A dedication to automated testing, push-button deployment, and configuration management through IT automation.\n\n* Experience building large-scale production web applications with API interfaces.\n\n* A willingness to jump in and experiment with new technologies, and to get out of your comfort zone.\n\n* Have created a web application from scratch for a production use and maintained it\n\n* Have gone through performance challenges of a production RoR web application (e.g. stress testing and performance tuning)\n\n* Have implemented something in Ruby outside RoR framework and popular Ruby libraries (e.g. a Ruby gem, a DSL)\n\n* Have good understandings of multiple kinds of tests, and use some of them in your daily development activities\n\n* Have experiences with asynchronous jobs and/or data pipelines\n\n* Have contributed to open source communities\n\n* Have understanding why RoR is designed in the current way, and how it has influenced other web frameworks\n\n* Have understanding of what makes RoR possible\n\n* Have knowledge of other web application frameworks\n\n* Have good understanding of various project management methodologies, and when to use them\n\n* Care about your craft that brings values to users, and understand why before working on a project\n\n* Have influenced other developers through PR reviews and pair-programming\n\n* Have given talks at meetups/conferences and/or written articles/books in tech\n\n* Critically examine your thinking and ideas on a regular basis, and you are open to constructive criticism\n\n* You try to articulate your points in discussions and in your code\n\n* Can work with and help product managers to maximize the values we deliver as a unit\n\n* Have a desire to own a product or a service\n\n\n\n\nBonus Points\n\n\n* Have sunset a web application in production\n\n* Have designed and documented APIs that are consumed by multiple users excluding yourself\n\n* Have played a technical lead role of a team and pushed the bar of the team continuously and collaboratively\n\n* Specific experience with real-world DNS and/or email authentication standards is a plus.\n\n* Have a genuine interest in for the mission of enhancing our zero-trust approach to email sender identity.\n\n* Ability to work effectively at all levels of the stack rails, Ruby, Javascript ES6 and/or React.\n\n* Experience building, provisioning, and deploying services in the cloud in an automated fashion.\n\n\n\n\nValimail is hiring for this role remotely in the United States only\n\nValimail is the trusted leader in fully automated email authentication, with the only comprehensive platform for anti-impersonation, brand protection, and compliance used by corporations and federal agencies such as Uber, Fannie Mae, WeWork, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. Valimail Enforce is the only FedRAMP-authorized email authentication service and, because it uses no personally identifiable information (PII), it is also GDPR compliant. Valimail authenticates billions of messages a month for some of the world's biggest companies, in finance, government, transportation, health care, manufacturing, media, technology, and more. Valimail is based in San Francisco with our 2nd office being in Denver, CO. For more information visit www.Valimail.com. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Ruby, Engineer, Full Stack, Executive, JavaScript, Cloud and API 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