Burlington, VT
Senior Full Stack Rails Engineer
Image Relay is a fast-growing software company and our development team is small but mighty. We strive to keep our apps and services up to date with modern tools and best practices while adding features that keep our customers happy. We’re looking to add a Senior full stack developer to the team to help keep pushing us forward.
We are a different type of software company. We are a certified B Corp (if you don’t know what that is, please look into it and let us know what you think) and committed to a set of values that drive our company culture.
Image Relay is a remote company that operates 9-5 EST. We are seeking full time employees who can overlap at a minimum of 4 hours during that time period.
Image Relay is a remote company that operates 9-5 EST. We are seeking full time employees who can overlap at a minimum of 4 hours during that time period.
Who we're looking for
We're looking for someone who has been working with Ruby and Rails professionally for at least 5 years. Our ideal candidate is someone who has:
- Maintained larger applications, ideally multi-tenant SaaS
- Fixed bugs and added features to legacy code
- Refactored older or “smelly” code
- Updated Rails to a newer, major version
- Updated or forked gems or even created their own gems for bug fixes/features
- Performed DevOps duties, preferably with AWS
- Strong grasp of common scalability pitfalls
Some examples of what you might be doing
- Work closely with design to build the best features for our clients
- Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
- Consistently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects.
- Contribute to and follow our workflow process
- Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity
- Building complex pages that load fast
- Build efficient, usable, and maintainable UI
- Identify and improve bottlenecks
- Query tuning
- Assist with DevOps
- Background job tuning
- Third party API integrations
- Good, old-fashioned bug squashing
- Writing test coverage for all code, whether you wrote it or it’s legacy code that lacks coverage
- Code Reviews
Skills
- Ruby 2.x
- Rails 5+
- Javascript
- Sass, grids & latest CSS (flexbox, etc)
- Background job processing
- MySQL or Postgres experience
- Minitest or equivalent
- DevOps experience
- DNS/networking
- Redis data structures
- CI/CD experience
- Professional experience using Git, particularly with Git Flow & Trunk workflows
- Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
- Comfort working in a highly agile software development process
- Positive and solution-oriented mindset
- Effective communication skills and clear status updates
- Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization
Bonus
- React, Stimulus, ES6
- AWS serverless services (step functions, lambdas, rekognition, media convert, etc)
- Rails 6+
- Electron
- ElasticSearch
- TypeScript
Benefits:
- Remote work environment (Office space is available in Burlington, Vermont if you are local and so inclined)
- Home office allowance
- 100% health insurance premium paid for you and family
- Dental and Vision coverage
- 401k employer match
- Monthly stipend to cover broadband access
- 15 days paid time off plus 11 paid company holidays
- 10 sick days paid time off
- 2 cultural paid days off
- 4 hours per month volunteer time off
- 12 weeks paid family leave
- Monthly stipend to cover broadband access
Image Relay is an equal opportunity employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
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