Backend Engineer (RoR), Create: Source Code Management

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with Product Management and other stakeholders within Engineering (Frontend, UX, etc.) to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance
• Solve technical problems of moderate scope and complexity
• 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
• Ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects
• Participate in Tier 2 or Tier 3 weekday and weekend and occasional night on-call rotations to assist in troubleshooting product operations, security operations, and urgent engineering issues

What you’ll bring:

• Professional experience with Ruby on Rails
• Some experience with Go (non-professional experience is fine) 
• Professional experience with SQL (ideally Postgres) 
• An understanding of Git functionality 
• Professional experience building web applications and APIs (ideally Ruby Grape or graphql-ruby) 
• Passion and interest in performance tuning and Rails caching strategies for high-traffic endpoints and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
• Experience building highly available and performant business-critical product features
• Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions.
• Comfort working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process.
• Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution.
• Self-motivated and self-managing, with excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fully remote organization.