Senior Ruby on Rails Software Engineer (NYC)
About the Opportunity
This is an opportunity to improve the lives of people with really hard jobs: customer care employees. We understand the psychology of happiness and stress. We’re combining these principles with expertise in technology, product, and usability to create a revolutionary platform. You will be building and growing a system to make the jobs of front-line employees fulfilling and developmental, even while working from home.
The Position
We are seeking a Ruby on Rails Engineer proficient in TDD, to help us build and scale our large-scale platform that has tens of thousands of active users across hundreds of companies that are redefining customer service, like Warby Parker, Tinder, and Second Life. You will be part of a brilliant, fast-paced team tasked with helping make those agents’ jobs more fun.
Qualifications
- TDD-focused: RSpec, Capybara or similar
- Database design, architecture and migrations
- Understands where Rails can go wrong and can mitigate
- Willing to dig into messy stuff
- Can increase overall velocity by creating quality maintainable code
- Can think globally and act locally, which means building things right while pushing code multiple times per day
- Eager to both learn and teach within a high-powered team
- 5+ years of Ruby on Rails experience
Key responsibilities
- End-to-end, somewhat data intensive, web software development
- This is a web application position with a concentration on backend
- Solve complex business problems by writing simple, effective code
What will make you a stand-out candidate
- Show us your Github
- Share your Stack Overflow profile
- Find a way to show us the code and flows behind the most interesting work you have done
This is a remote friendly role!
Compensation & Perks
Competitive cash comp; stock options; full (and might I add, excellent) health, dental and vision insurance benefits; gym stipend; generous vacation; much much more!
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