About Job:

Our Company is seeking a seasoned Software Engineer to join our fully remote distributed engineering team to help us continue our impressive growth. You should be self-directed. We're looking for people with big ideas and tiny egos. No matter what your “job” is, you’re welcome to suggest better ways of doing anything. We are all owners. Everyone has a stake in the company.

 

What you’ll be doing:

You will be focused on improving the performance and reliability of the Our Company Platform (web, API, services, databases, CI, functions, et cetera) which serves over 20 million users. You will work with us as we design, build, and maintain  functionality, services, and applications to continue our rapid growth. You’re willing to help out anywhere your talents are required, including occasional customer support and on-call duties, staying in touch with our internal and external customers' needs.



 

Some things that are important Skills:

• 5 years experience building scalable web applications and services.


• Experience working on a self directed agile  team.


• We are looking for "T-shaped" developers. You should be an expert in Ruby and have functional knowledge of elixir or golang and are happy to dabble in anything that helps Our Company deliver value to our customers.


• Significant experience with frameworks and libraries surrounding your areas of expertise such as Rails and Phoenix.


• A customer-focused attitude, with an ability and willingness to work with customers to develop great features as well as diagnose and fix problems.


• Adaptability to learn and extend custom frameworks. We have massive scale and often are building new technology to match our growth requirements.


• Experience with building open APIs.


• Experience with distributed systems.


• Significant experience with direct usage of SQL and general database administration knowledge.


• Ability to debug complex problems involving a number of systems.


• Experience monitoring Ruby web applications.


• You must be comfortable with asynchronous communication.


• A witty sense of humor.


• A "Test First" attitude and experience writing automated tests using a TDD, BDD or whatever *DD methodology you jive with.


• Experience with automated build and deployment systems.


• Experience with git or Github as a version control tool.


• A willingness to travel to other parts of the country, on average once a quarter, for all company gatherings, team meetings, conferences, and the like.

 

Other things that would be nice to have:

• A computer science background.


• Involvement in youth or adult recreational sports, as a player, parent or coach. We’d love for you to experience firsthand how our customers use our product and how it could be improved.


• Creating and deploying services and applications within a PaaS or Service Mesh.


• Experience working as part of a distributed team.


• Experience with Docker-based development environments and Kubernetes-based production environments.


• Passion for great user experience - we have designers on staff, but we want you to be interested in what makes a great feature for our customers (whether Our Company users or other developers).


• Free Superbowl tickets for all your co-workers (hey, we can dream).

 

Location

We are headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, but this job is remote (unless you happen to live near Boulder, in which case you’re welcome to come to the office). While Our Company is a mostly-distributed company, Engineering is fully distributed. You must be very comfortable working with people who aren’t in the same physical location as you or each other. While we love all parts of the world, we can only hire US-based citizens at this time.