Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Trakstar

Seattle

Type of work

Undetermined

Experience

Senior

Employment Type

Permanent

Operating mode

Office

Tech stack

Ruby on Rails

master

JavaScript

junior

Job description

Job Description

Trakstar is looking for experienced and versatile full-stack developers familiar with the Rails framework to join our small but efficient team in Seattle. You'll have an opportunity to have a huge impact at a fun, exciting company with significant growth potential. Trakstar is used today by 125,000+ people and 1,000+ organizations all around the world. We are continuously improving our product and expanding our value to our customers. A few more things:

We've experienced 60% revenue growth (YTD as of 11/2017)
We're highly profitable
We offer stock options
We want more fun, motivated people with amazing technical skills to join our team and help realize our crazy growth potential

Responsibilities

Enthusiastically engage in both product-related and technical discussions
Continuously evaluate and incorporate new ideas and technologies
Implement features across the full stack of our primary product, using PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, and JavaScript MVC
Participate in both giving and receiving code reviews from other engineers, considering robustness, edge cases, usability, and general reliability
Be confident releasing production-ready code with high visibility, considering our substantial user base

Skills & Requirements

Strong computer science fundamentals
5+ years of professional software development experience
2+ years of Ruby on Rails experience on a medium/large customer-facing web application
Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Nice-to-Haves

Formal software education in modern web application development and design
Experience with multiple front-end frameworks, especially React or Backbone.js
Knowledge of webpack, or another modern module bundler
Published code on Github or another code collaboration tool
Ability to build unit test coverage of implemented features, Rspec preferred
Ability to write feature tests with Capybara/Selenium

Technologies

Ruby
Ruby on Rails
PostgreSQL
AWS (EC2, RDS, S3)
Chef & Serverspec
JavaScript
JQuery
SASS
CSS

Location

Seattle, WA

We believe that spending time in our Seattle office is the most successful and efficient path towards becoming an autonomous member of our team. Remote work is considered after demonstrating efficiency and effective communication on-site!