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Ruby on Rails Developer

Open stevendelarwelle opened this issue 5 years ago • 0 comments

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

stevendelarwelle avatar Mar 21 '19 18:03 stevendelarwelle