Senior Full Stack Dev using Ruby on Rails the Rails Way! (No React)

 Location: Remote

 



 About the Opportunity


 

 We’re looking for a Senior Full Stack Developer to join us at Nearcut. You will join a small team dedicated to building impactful and maintainable software. No day will be the same — you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of tasks across the business. Your opinions and ideas will shape our tech stack.
 

 



 As a Senior Full Stack Developer, you will collaborate closely with our technical founder and development team. Your work will impact millions of customers and help us continue to expand across Europe. You will be responsible for delivering high-quality and fully tested features.


 

 Our product is built on Ruby on Rails. Our stack includes RSpec, MySQL, Docker Compose, Rubocop and Stimulus. We build software the Rails way and are not concerned with the latest JS framework craze. Currently, we use Ruby 2.7 and Rails 6.0. Five years ago we adopted Test Driven Development in all of our work and our test suite covers around 95% of our code base, keeping bugs to an absolute minimum and allowing us to focus on new features.  We have built our own component system using Github's View Component gem. When it comes to CSS, we use BEM.
 

 



 

  Your expertise


 
You have at least 7 years of professional software development experience in Ruby on Rails
 
You love using Test Driven Development in all of your work
 
You have used Stimulus before in a project
 
You are very comfortable writing clean HTML/CSS
 
You don’t like React
 
You have a passion for building beautiful object-oriented software
 
You have implemented numerous full-stack features in production applications from scratch
 
You appreciate having end-to-end ownership of your work including deployment and responding to issues: you build it, you own it and you run it
 
You take an active interest in best practices
 
You enjoy learning new skills and tackling different technical challenges
 
You are attentive to problems and want to help customers succeed
 
You have experience working in startups


 Your responsibilities
You'll be a crucial individual contributor on our small but capable development team.


 
Implement and deploy new features, using TDD and refactoring your work to meet best practices
 
Review tests and refactor sub-standard code as you come across it
 
Implement new View Components using HTML/CSS/Stimulus
 
Review PRs from your colleagues across different parts of the product
 
Embrace and adopt the company's style of writing Rails apps (trust us, it works)
 
Offer feedback on code reviews to help others to improve
 
Iterate and tailor your work based on feedback from customers and colleagues
 
Plan your implementation approach before starting to code
 
Investigate and fix bugs as they are reported (with a strong test suite, these are rare for us!)
 
You can be available for some calls between 10:00 - 14:00 UTC


 



 Your first month


 
Gain in-depth knowledge of our product and understand our development cycle by:
  

   
Reviewing our guidelines
   
Reviewing our existing codebase
   
Reviewing other developers' pull requests
   
Asking questions as you go
  
 
Build and deploy at least one new fully tested feature


 



 Benefits of our working environment


 
Remote-first: We are a remote-first company without an in-person office. We trust our employees to work flexibily and autonomously to efficiently meet business goals.
 
Flexible working hours: Aside from a couple of weekly meetings and availability during core hours, we are happy for you to complete your work whenever you’re most productive.
 
Close team: Although we work remotely, our team is close knit and colleagues are always there to help one another.
 
Great customer feedback: Our customers are small business owners who are very appreciative of the work that we do to solve problems in their businesses
 
Bootstrapped: We have never raised external capital. We have no distractions from past or future investors. We're entirely focused on helping our customers and we're taking our time to build a reliable product and grow sustainably.
 
Small business: No hierarchy or politics, just focus on efficiently building quality features that customers love.


 “Everyone is pulling in the same direction and supports each other. I've never worked for a company that gets so much positive feedback from the clients - we can really see the impact of our work. I also enjoy that fact that we work remotely and can be flexible.” 


 - Nearcut colleague for more than 3 years


 



 “Working at Nearcut is a breath of fresh air! The business is full to the brim of great people who are motivated to improve themselves and the business on the whole, and the entire company is structured to allow individuals to thrive. I haven't looked back since joining!” 


 - Nearcut colleague for more than 1 year


 



 The nitty gritty


 
An annual salary of between 50,000$ USD - 80,000$ USD gross, depending on your technical ability and experience.
 
33 flexible holiday days per year. Since our remote-first team is based all over the world, you can choose whether or not to take time off on your country’s public holidays.


 We’re a small team and we’re passionate about being a great company to work with and work for. 


 

  Application process


 
Deadline for applications: 15:00 UTC on Monday 19th August 2024
 
Intro calls: Wednesday 21st - Friday 23rd August 2024
 
Coding challenge: We will send out coding challenges to candidates by 12:00 UTC on Friday 23rd August 2024. The deadline for returning the coding challenge will be 18:00 UTC on Monday 26th August 2024
 
Final interview: Thursday 29th or Friday 30th August 2024


 

 Please answer the following key questions in order to apply!
 

 

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