Rails Backend Developer (Full-time, Remote)

• You’ll be the sole Ruby on Rails developer.
• You’ll mostly work on the business logic of our web platform, and only occasionally work on the views (our frontend developer usually handles that part in a separate Next.js app).
• You’ll join a small product team consisting of 1 frontend developer, 1 part-time TypeScript backend developer, 3 designers, and 1 product manager.
• You’ll report directly to the founders (one of whom is technical) and periodically collaborate with people outside the product team.
• You’ll play an active role in the shaping and scoping of new features.

• Impatient — You must have an insatiable desire to constantly move things forward and take action without asking for permission.
• Comfortable in uncertainty — You must regularly dive into complex problems and systems without knowing all of their details upfront.
• Something to prove — A desire to show the world what you’re made of; ambition matters.

• Get to production — We want to get things into their real environment as early as possible and then rapidly iterate from there. This means constantly shipping incremental pieces, whether it be directly to customers, behind feature flags, on an obscure URL, as a script, or some other form.
• Constantly fight the urge to do more — Everyone, including yourself, will naturally slide towards wanting to make the thing a little bigger and a little better. You must be vigilant in pushing back to avoid scope creep.
• Testing means clicking — Automated tests are great, but actually using the real thing, in a browser, with production data is indispensable. A feature is not tested if you haven’t tried it the way the end-user will.

• A flat organization with a long-term focus.
• Lots of responsibility from day 1.
• Organization that is remote from the ground-up.
• Founders engaged in the product (both are active in the product team).
• Flexible hours.
• Room for growth.

• Salary: competitive, matched to your skill and ambition.
• Location: remote full-time position from either US east coast, Europe, or Africa. (Most of the product team is located in Europe)
• Start date: as soon as possible.
• Language: fully proficient in written and spoken English.
• Travel: limited; expect only 0-1 week of optional travel each year (in connection with an optional, company-wide meetup).

1. Describe how you fit the role and share evidence of extraordinary ability (max. 1 page). (Required.)
2. Examples of code you’ve written (either attached or as links to public Github repos, PRs, commits). (Required.)
3. A link to your LinkedIn profile or a resume (PDF). (Required.)