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!
- Relocation not available
- Visa sponsorship not available