Senior Software Engineer

🚀 Want to join a team of A-players in an exciting, high-growth, entrepreneurial environment?

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LeadSimple is a small team solving big problems in the property management industry. Bootstrapped since 2013, we're passionate about helping small businesses grow sustainably.

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Our software provides a powerful foundation for any property management company to take their business to the next level. Thousands of property managers rely on us for their day-to-day operations and we’re only getting started. 

We’re looking for seasoned Senior and Lead Ruby on Rails Engineers to join our fully-remote team to help us scale to meet market demand. This is an opportunity to join on the ground floor of a bootstrapped, growing company with a lot of upside.

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What we’d want you to do:

• Assist with complex migration projects, such as:

• Modernizing our back-end stack (we’re currently on Rails 4)

• Optimizing our API and PostgreSQL database for scale and performance

• Suggest and implement scalability improvements

• Collaborate with the rest of the team in weekly meetings, chat and code reviews

• Develop new full-stack features from start to finish using the Shape Up method‍

• Write high-quality and maintainable Ruby and Typescript code

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Qualifications

Must have

• 5+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails

• Fluent spoken and written English at a professional level.

• Working hours must overlap with PST for at least 3 hours.

• Familiarity with PostgreSQL query optimization and scaling strategies

• Strong analytical and debugging skills

• Strong communication skills, able to recommend decisions using data and experience

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Nice to have

• Prior experience upgrading Ruby on Rails (this would be a big plus!)

• React, Typescript or GraphQL experience

• Elixir experience (we have 1 service using Elixir)

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Our Stack

Front-end

• Typescript

• React 

• MaterialUI

• Relay

Back-end

• Ruby on Rails monolith (with 95% test coverage)

• GraphQL (via graphql-ruby gem)

• Sidekiq

• PostgreSQL

• Redis

• Heroku

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What it’s like to work here

• You’ll have opportunities to work on the entire stack, from databases to user interfaces and everything in between, in a wide variety of product areas.

• You’ll own the delivery of high-impact projects that affect real customers, from start to finish, with no bureaucracy, following the Shape Up method. 

• You’ll collaborate within a small, highly productive team, reviewing code and helping other engineers with their roadblocks.

• You’ll have time to focus. We don’t micromanage, and we do our best to keep distractions (and meetings) to a minimum. 

• When assigned to on-call duty, you’ll investigate and fix bugs and respond to incidents. 

• You’ll deploy early and often. We ship to production multiple times per day.

Benefits

• Remote-only team, location independent

• 3rd Friday of every month off

• 6 US Holidays

• 3 Weeks Paid Time Off (in addition to the above)

• Quarterly Two-Week Hackathons

• Monthly Healthcare Allowance

• Yearly Vacation Allowance

• $2000 equipment stipend upon hire

• Focused and dedicated environment with smart, caring people

• Consistent, but flexible working schedule with minimum 3hr Pacific Time Zone overlap

• Mission driven, non-political company and values-based culture

Our Interview Process

• Fill out our application, located here

• Intro call (30 minutes)

• Offline work sample test (up to 60 minutes)

• Work history interview with Hiring Manager (up to 90 minutes)

• Culture interview with People Operations (30 minutes)

• Meet the CTO (30 minutes)

• Meet the CEO (30 minutes)

• Offer call (15 minutes), followed by a written offer

• If you accept the offer, you enter a 90-day trial period, fully paid.

• If all goes well in your first 90 days, you convert to a full-time team member!