Ruby on Rails Developer

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Ruby on Rails Developer

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Headquarters: Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada)
URL: https://fetlife.com

At FetLife we are looking for an open-minded, kink-friendly Rails Developer to join our product team and help us iteratively improve the FetLife experience to better support the community.

At FetLife, you will be responsible for

• Continuously implementing and deploying small and iterative improvements to FetLife
  
• Working with product designers to find a balance between the ideal solution and the most impactful iterative improvement
  
• Measuring the impact of changes against our measures of success
  
• Working with our security, infrastructure, and performance team to keep FetLife tight
  
• Communicating asynchronously with the team and the rest of the community
  
• Keeping our codebase easy to maintain and easy for others to contribute code to
  
• Monitoring your deployments for potential issues
  
• Prioritizing and fixing bugs
  
• Interviewing potential developers

Our Technology Stack

• Rails Monolith (with vanilla Javascript and TypeScript)
  
• MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, and Memcached
  
• Google Cloud Platform
  
• Kubernetes (+ Helm)

You should have experience

• Maintaining a production-level Ruby on Rails applications (2+ years)
  
• Leading the implementation of larger projects
  
• Writing semantic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
  
• Working with Memcache, Redis, and MySQL
  
• Writing clear, concise, and performant code
  
• Writing unit and integration tests
  
• Continuously deploying code

Bonus if you have experience

• Working productively on a small 100% remote team
  
• Reasoning about software, algorithms, and performance from a high level
  
• Writing SQL queries, beyond abstractions offered by Active Record
  
• Navigating and understanding a large codebase
  
• With technologies other than Ruby and Rails
  
• Writing tests using Rspec and Capybara
  
• With Javascript libraries including but not limited to: stimulus.js and vue.js
  
• Reading and writing TypeScript
  
• Maintaining infrastructure with Docker, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud
  
• Working in an agile and/or lean environment
  
• Shipping and maintaining open-source software

To be successful at FetLife, you need to be

• Independent but also a team player
  
• Self-motivated and have strong organizational skills
  
• Vocal about your opinions but not married to them
  
• Driven to learn and self-improve
  
• A strong written communicator

Bonus if you have a

• Passion and eye for user experience and product design

At FetLife we

• Are 100% remote, work from multiple time zones
  
• Have core overlap hours from 8-12 AM EST (1-5 PM GMT)
  
• Use GitHub, Trello, Basecamp, Slack, and Sneek to collaborate
  
• Are community driven and work both hard and smart

Why work at FetLife

• Have your work impact millions of people
  
• Work from anywhere in the world with a great group of people
  
• Grow as an engineer #BigPassionateCommunity #HighTraffic
  
• Competitive salary

More about FetLife

• Largest kinky social network this side of the milky way
  
• We focus on doing the right thing and not hockey stick shaped charts
  
• Have over 7 million members… and growing
  
• Grew 100% by word-of-mouth
  
• A top 1,800 website globally and top 600 website in most English speaking countries
  
• Serve over six billion requests a month

How to apply

Send an email to [email protected]. In the email, please include:

• Tell us about 2-3 of your favourite projects you worked on and were responsible for
  
• Link to your GitHub or GitLab account (if you have one)
  
• Link to your LinkedIn profile -or- a PDF copy of your resume

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to email us at [email protected]!

To apply: [email protected]

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March 21, 2019 at 01:15PM