Ruby on Rails developer in a fun, relaxed team

If you’re tired of reading about the same old Rails positions and looking for something a bit different, we’re glad you found us.

We’re about as far from being an enterprise company (in both size and culture) as you can get.

Instead of following orders, you’ll build a deep understanding of what drives our customers, and push back on features if you think we’re doing something dumb or going in the wrong direction. You will work directly with our technical founders, and your ideas will directly shape the product.

In Slack, we love seeing what cool stuff you get up to outside of work and your favorite awful dad jokes, if that’s your thing.

We were 100% remote before it was cool (~2014), and with that comes the freedom to set your own hours and adjust them when life gets in the way. The team is spread around the world, but the founders are based in Brisbane, Australia.

Here’s what one of our longest developer team members had to say, when asked why he likes working with us: 

Amazing team, zero toxicity, low stress, remote since when that was not mainstream, freedom in time and space, zero tolerance to bullsh*t like micromanagement and pointless meetings”

You’ll be joining at an exciting time. We’ve found an amazing product-market fit in the accounting space (which, believe it or not, is full of cool, tech-forward people). People tell us that Content Snare has been a game-changer for their firms. Most of that comes down to the brilliant product that our developers (and hopefully soon, you) have created.

Ok, with all that out of the way, let’s get into the actual role:

What you’ll do

• Write a lot of Ruby on Rails code (duh)

• Write secure, fast, well-tested and maintainable code

• Work with an existing team of brilliant developers, under direction from our Lead

• Use Jira and Slack to communicate with the team

• Follow Gitflow and our version control guidelines

• Work on APIs, integrations, new features and generally just building a rock-solid, awesome product
  

Who you are

• Experienced - You have 3+ years experience in Ruby on Rails (we’ll test for this). You’ve got experience with RESTful API design and developing unit tests

• Performance and UX oriented - You want the things you build to be fast, efficient and easy to use

• Team player - You’ve worked with a team of agile developers, and can give and take feedback

• Self-motivated - You show up every day with a great attitude and can work independently & remotely

• Organized - You’re able to manage your time, keep on top of your productivity and love hitting inbox zero

• Problem solver - It’s not always obvious what the solution should be. You can translate goals into requirements by working out what customers really mean

What’s in it for you

• 100% remote

• A small, fun team

• Autonomy & flexibility

• Having your opinions and ideas valued

• Working with people who are highly supportive, very knowledgeable, and are always willing to share their experience and expertise

About Content Snare

The product

You might be wondering what product actually does. 

It helps people collect information from clients. Think of something like Typeform with autosaving and automatic reminders. This is overly simplistic, but a pretty good base.

Our customers are tired of chasing clients for information, and lose a ridiculous amount of time going back and forth over email. They’re typically using a combination of email, Google Drive and spreadsheets. Or a client portal that looks like it was made in 2003. 

Content Snare helps them get all the stuff they need from clients in one place. This is often a game-changer for their business. It’s not uncommon to hear new customers say “where have you been all my life”.

Right now it’s helping people collect over 100,000 items from their clients every month.

A lot of time is invested in making sure the product is easy to use (by just about anyone), secure and fast. 

We hope you’ll enjoy helping our customers as much as we do.

The stack

Content Snare runs on a Kubernetes cluster hosted on AWS. The Rails back end uses PostgreSQL, redis & sidekiq. Automated CI/CD is implemented through Github actions. The front end is fully-typed using the latest version of Angular and NgRx for state storage.

Next steps

Use the form here to apply: https://airtable.com/shrcLdQoE2zFTYDX9