Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack Ruby)

At Our Client, our mission is to be the leading collaborative grantmaking platform that amplifies impact in our global communities. We’re a mission-driven business making an impact in philanthropy, and our cloud platform enables the end-to-end grantmaking process for funders and doers. We volunteer, serve our community, and we’re committed to building a team of outstanding individuals with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We are looking for the best talent to continue to drive our mission forward.

In the role ofSenior Software Engineer,you’ll play a critical role in building high-quality, innovative, and performant software that aligns with industry standards and best practices.

This is a full-time exempt and remote position. Candidates must be located in the United States.

What you’ll be doing:

• Provide technical leadership, bringing best engineering practices to all phases of large-scale engineering initiatives
• Work cross-functionally with support agents, other engineers, designers, QA, and product managers to drive product and process improvements
• Design and execute new user-facing features and applications
• Improve observability by identifying logging and monitoring improvements
• Build test automation to ensure quality release after release
• Lead initiatives to refactor, re-engineer, and reimagine our platform
• Produce high-quality software that is well designed, fully unit tested and passes peer code review
• Deliver projects with high quality and at a rapid cadence

What you bring to the team:

• Demonstrable experience with Ruby on Rails and JavaScript
• An investigative curiosity and excitement about the challenge of finding root causes and solutions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Experience as a full stack engineer(frontend + backend)
• At least 4 years of experience building or supporting web apps (B2B apps preferred)
• Innate desire to learn and grow
• A solid foundation in computer science
• Dedication to writing and maintaining documentation
• A willingness to adapt quickly

You’ll have a better chance of success given experience with:

• Large refactoring/re-engineering projects
• Ruby, Rails
• MySQL
• Elasticsearch
• jQuery, React
• Redis, Resque
• Java
• Play
• Devops and AWS
• RESTful APIs

About Our Client:

At Our Client, we're looking for people with grit and passion for Our Client's vision to become THE company that changes Philanthropy forever. We encourage you to apply - even if your experience doesn't exactly match the job description. Your skills and passion will stand out, especially if your career path is unique.

In addition to being community & people-first, we offer the following benefits:

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Retirement plan with company match
• 100% paid parental leave for 12 weeks
• Flexible time off plus 14 public holidays
• Annual Learning and Development stipend
• Home Office Stipend