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Senior Full Stack Engineer

FetLife Remote
Posted 5 months ago
Deadline: Not specified
Full Time Senior Software Developer

At FetLife we're looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to help us better serve the community.

As a Full Stack Engineer, you'll be focusing on improving our codebase to make it more performant and easier to maintain.

Currently, our platform is built as a majestic Rails monolith, using Vue.js with Typescript on the front-end, and enhanced by Rust for select services and gems.

Requirements

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
Additionally, since we're 100% remote, we:

Highly value strong written communicators
Require three hours overlap any time between 10 AM and 6 PM CET

Benefits

We use a standardised salary calculator for each position to ensure we are competitive, fair, and consistent. For this specific role, the rate is between $115k - $170k USD / year.

Additionally, we offer:

Paid time off:
2 weeks vacation
5 statutory holidays (e.g. Easter & Thanksgiving)
2 weeks during Christmas
4-day workweeks during the summer months (July & August)
Annual company retreat (e.g. Malaga, Miami, Vancouver, and Montreal)
Annual anniversary gift (200$ USD for every year with us, e.g. 4th anniversary is $800)
Monthly streaming music subscription reimbursement
Fully paid maternity and paternity leave

Responsibilities

Testing is done with RSpec & Capybara
Continuous integration and deployment are done with CircleCI & GitHub Actions
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
Monitoring and alerting is done with DataDog, New Relic, and Sentry
Infrastructure managed with Terraform
Hosting on Google Cloud (planning to move towards bare metal)
CDN and endpoint protection using Cloudflare and Fastly

Salary
$115000 - $170000
per yearly
Company Size
Employment Type
Full Time
Work Mode
On-site (Remote)
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Location

Remote