Software Engineer Ruby

Xacent HR

$90K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of relevant work experience
  • Experience with Ruby on Rails, React, Redis, PostgreSQL, and SQL
  • Basic understanding of REST APIs
  • Competent with git
  • Strong troubleshooting skills
  • Comfortable prioritizing QA processes
  • Experience with agile development teams

Responsibilities

  • Become proficient with our technology stack
  • Ship meaningful features to enhance user growth and monetization
  • Lead development of high-impact product initiatives
  • Prioritize and triage a backlog of feature requests and bugs
  • Transition tech ecosystem to a more robust and scalable version
  • Document thought processes and development work
  • Collaborate and suggest creative solutions to improve product

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • Stock options
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) employer match
  • Unlimited PTO with a mandatory 10 days per year minimum
  • Twice-annual in-person team retreats
  • Unlimited book budget
  • Two-month sabbatical every three years
  • Monthly mental health day
Full Job Description
Job Description

What you will be responsible for
  • Becoming proficient with our technology stack
  • Routinely shipping meaningful features that increase our users' ability to grow and monetize
  • Leading the development of several high-impact product initiatives
  • Prioritizing and triaging a backlog of in-demand feature requests and bugs
  • Transitioning our tech ecosystem into a more robust and performant version of itself, continuously optimizing for scale
  • Documenting your thought processes and development
  • Bringing new ideas to work, suggesting creative solutions, and collaborating with others to bring the absolute best product to market


Qualifications

Technologies we work with:
  • Ruby on Rails
  • React
  • Redis, PostgreSQL, and SQL

What you will have:
  • Experience and desire to work with the above technologies
  • Basic understanding of REST APIs
  • Comfortable writing thorough tests and prioritizing QA and related processes
  • Competent with git
  • Strong troubleshooting skills
  • Experience working with an agile development team
  • 2+ years of relevant work experience

Nice to have:
  • Familiarity writing in HAML
  • Experience using Heroku, Sentry, Github
  • Familiarity with email-specific topics, such as HTML email templating, cross-device management, SMTP, email deliverability, integrating with ESPs, inbox providers, etc.
  • Keen design eye and a passion for building great user experiences


Additional Information

Position is remote.

We believe that your best work is done where you feel safe, comfortable, and supported.

Empathy, not ego.

Empathy opens the door to problem solving. Our team is uniquely talented and we can solve any problem when we lead with empathy.

Bias towards action.

Most decisions can be changed or altered, but progress cannot be created without action. It is almost always better to deliver something today over something that may be better tomorrow.

Complete transparency.

You will have full access to business metrics about the company.

Owner-attitude.

Ownership creates a sense of pride and accountability. It empowers someone to stand up for what is right, with a long-term outlook.

Benefits
  • Competitive salary
  • Stock Options
  • Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • 401(k) employer match
  • Unlimited PTO (mandatory 10 days per year minimum)
  • Twice-annual in-person team retreat
  • Unlimited book budget
  • Two month sabbatical every three years
  • Mental health day each month

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