Senior Full Stack Engineer

More details about our tech stack:

• Testing is done with RSpec & Capybara
• Continuous integration and deployment are done with CircleCI
• MySQL and PostgreSQL for our main databases
• ScyllaDB for our activity feeds
• Redis for session storage, queue management, and caching
• ElasticSearch for full-text search
• DevOps using Containers orchestrated with Kubernetes and Helm
• Service and performance monitoring is done with DataDog and NewRelic
• Infrastructure managed with Terraform
• Cloudflare and Fastly as CDN

Here are some past projects we've worked on that might help you get a better idea of what it means to work as a Full Stack Engineer at FetLife:

• Implemented a profile verification system from the ground up using government ID and/or pictures portraying a certain gesture
• Added discussion pre-moderation for groups
• Added support for installing FetLife as a Progressive Web App
• Improved the efficiency of our Activity Feed Deliveries by splitting longer feed event deliveries into smaller async jobs and prioritizing delivery to more recently active members
• Introduced the possibility of tagging other members in pictures, videos, and writings
• Added powerful filtering to our on-site reporting system using ElasticSearch
• Improved location privacy for all our members by introducing granular location privacy settings
• Integrate Machine Learning solutions to detect age or potentially illegal content

About you

We're looking for someone who has proven experience building and maintaining large production-level Ruby on Rails applications in the past.

Ideally, you have experience:

• Working with a modern front-end framework (ideally Vue)
• Writing semantic JavaScript and (or) Typescript
• Working with Redis, MySQL or PostgreSQL
• Writing unit and integration tests using RSpec and Capybara