Backend Engineer

 We’re setting out to level the playing field for job seekers, building a truly consumer-first platform that equips people with the tools, technology, and resources they need to feel empowered to achieve career growth on their own terms. Our long-term goal: to help people make confident career decisions from the day they start working to the day they retire—and that starts with the job search.


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 We’re looking for a fully remote, US-based Rails developer who is excited to do a lot of devops work, as well as feature development. You will be working directly with our CTO and other engineers to help ensure our system stays up, and delivers blazing results from our API.


 

  Responsibilities


 
Build out proper infrastructure metrics and monitoring with Datadog
 
Set up SLAs, monitor and fix offending endpoints
 
Help maintain existing services
 
When the devops side is calm, help us with feature development
 
Set up a rotational on-call schedule and associated triggers


 

  You Have Experience


 
At least 3 years of experience with our stack: Rails, Postgres, Redis, Heroku
 
With testing, and you love it
 
Working in a startup environment where helping to build culture and processes is just as important as building code


 

  Nice-to-Haves


 
Working in an early stage company (series Seed & A startups) where process grows along with our team size.
 
Experience working in a 100% remote environment


 

  Skills & Tools You Will Use And Learn


 
Rails, Postgres, Heroku, Datadog, Amplitude


 

  What Awesome Looks Like

 



 At day 1:


 
You’ve made your first pull request, perhaps a missing test, or readme improvement.


 At 1 week:


 
You have a good idea of how the backend services work.
 
You have a few PRs merged into master.


 At 1 month:


 
Monitoring for our system is live, comprehensive, and problematic endpoints identified
 
You are not nearly done, but you have a clear idea of what needs to get done.


 At 3 months:


 
You are fully fluent in our platform, showing us what is possible, what can be improved.
 
You are helping us plan major features, and making sure that as we roll out new features and grow, we stay up and stay fast.


 

  What We Offer


 
Salary: $130,000 - $160,000
 
Incentive Stock Options proportionate to salary
 
Fully remote work & remote office stipend (coworking, laptop, etc.)
 
No company wide meetings on Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays
 
Career development stipend
 
Unlimited vacation and sick days
 
Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave, earned 1 week for each month of tenure
 
80 - 100% coverage of health insurance (depending on chosen plan) & 401K Benefits with up to 4% company matching
 
Guaranteed 1-month severance if things don’t work out. You are trusting us with your career, and we want you to know we take it seriously.
 
As mentioned we are fully remote, however once per year we pay for the entire company to fly to the same city for a week of fun projects and general team building, think hackathons, boat rides and great food.


 

  About Teal & Our Hiring Practices

 



 Who We Are

 



 A small team of innovative, collaborative, and dedicated individuals passionate about helping people build meaningful careers.  Our backgrounds range from Architecture to Digital Design and from Human Resources to Software Engineering.  We are travelers, pet lovers, musicians, parents, scuba divers, podcasters, readers, gamers, croquet players, and puzzle masters.  We focus on aligning intentions, resulting in fewer miscommunications, fewer meetings, and better outcomes.  We adhere to a “what-by-when” mentality, which means the hours you keep are up to you, and we value your ability to set expectations and do your best to meet them.


 


  Our Hiring Process

 



 Apply


 
We read every application and make our best effort to reply to everyone.
 
Please read the job description. We love when people strive but if you do not meet more than 50% of the requirements, we are less likely to respond.


 Exploratory Interview


 
Goal: High level qualifications & mutual fit
 
30 minute Zoom with Keith, our CTO.
 
We make sure to preserve 10 minutes for your questions.
 
We will provide the question and guidance in advance.


 Technical Interview


 
Goals: Deeper understanding of qualifications
 
1-3 hour Zoom with 2 Backend Engineers
 
This is a realistic interview. No abstract puzzles. There is a question and answer session, some refactoring, and an architecture question.


 Work Culture Interview


 
Goal: Meet more of the Team
 
60 minute zoom with 2 Teal people
 
We will provide the question and guidance in advance.


 Reference Interviews


 
We will ask for 2 references from your most recent managers that you are comfortable using as references.


 

  Our Current Team & Process

 



 Our engineering team is currently 7 people: 4 frontend, 3 backend


 We are a kanban styled team, with VERY few meetings, and very light process.


 ‍Commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity: (Come as you are. Feel welcome. Feel safe.) We are committed to safeguarding our workplace from all forms of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, disability, military status, or family status. This commitment extends to all aspects of the employment relationship, including recruiting, interviewing, selection, hiring, transfers, promotions, training, terminations, working conditions, compensation, and benefits.