At FetLife we are looking for an open-minded, kink-friendly Rails Developer to help us better serve the community.
At FetLife, you will be responsible for- Continuously implementing and deploying small and iterative improvements to FetLife
- Working with product designers to find a balance between the ideal solution and the most impactful iterative improvement
- Measuring the impact of changes against our measures of success
- Working with our security, infrastructure, and performance team to keep FetLife tight
- Communicating asynchronously with the team and the rest of the community
- Keeping our codebase easy to maintain and easy for others to contribute code to
- Monitoring your deployments for potential issues
- Prioritizing and fixing bugs
- Rails monolith
- Frontend being mostly Vue.js with TypeScript
- Testing is done with RSpec &Capybara
- Continuous integration and deployment done with Circle CI
- MySQL and PostgreSQL for our main database
- Redis for our activity feeds, session storage, queue management, and caching
- ElasticSearch for full-text search
- DevOps using Docker images orchestrated with Kubernetes and Helm
- Service and performance monitoring is done with Datadog and NewRelic
- Maintaining a production-level Ruby on Rails applications (4+ years)
- Leading the implementation of larger projects
- Writing semantic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Working with Redis and MySQL
- Writing clear, concise, and performant code
- Writing unit and integration tests
- Continuously deploying code
- Working productively on a small 100% remote team
- Reasoning about software, algorithms, and performance from a high level
- Writing SQL queries, beyond abstractions offered by Active Record
- Navigating and understanding a large codebase
- With technologies other than Ruby and Rails
- Writing tests using Rspec and Capybara
- With Javascript libraries including but not limited to: Vue.js
- Reading and writing TypeScript
- Maintaining infrastructure with Docker, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud
- Working in an agile and/or lean environment
- Shipping and maintaining open-source software
- Independent but also a team player
- Self-motivated and have strong organizational skills
- Vocal about your opinions but not married to them
- Driven to learn and self-improve
- A strong written communicator
- Have core overlap hours from 8-12 AM EST (2-6 PM CET)
- Passion and eye for user experience and product design
- Are 100% remote, work from multiple time zones
- Use Notion, Slack, and GitHub to collaborate
- Are community driven and work both hard and smart
You can find our core values here.
- Have your work impact millions of people
- Work with a great group of people from all over the world
- Develop and grow as a Engineer
- Gain a broader and deeper understanding of human sexuality and kink
- Largest kinky social network this side of the milky way
- Have over 10 million members and growing
- Grew 100% by word-of-mouth
- Serve over 1.5 billion requests a day
- Everyone initially starts as either a part-time or full-time contractor
- If over time we both believe it's a good fit, and you're interested in something more permanent, we then will make you a more permanent offer
- Salary range for this position is $115k - $155k USD
- Quick introduction about yourself
- Tell us about 2-3 of your favourite projects you worked on
- Link to your GitHub or GitLab account (if you have one)
- Why you believe you are the right person for this role
- Link to your LinkedIn profile -and/or- a copy of your resume in PDF format
If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to email us at jointheteam+ror@fetlife.com!