Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer

Summary

We are looking for a remote Senior Ruby on Rails Engineer with strong knowledge in application backend development to join our development team. This is a long-term full-time (40 hrs/wk) contract role.

What You’ll Do:

• Communicate with the Engineering Manager and with frontend developers to establish priorities and plan the application roadmap.
• Suggest performance improvements and provide assistance with application architecture design.
• Point out potential performance problems and suggest fixes.
• Develop new web services with Ruby on Rails.

Requirements

What You Should Have:

• 4+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails applications (mandatory).
• Knowledge of JavaScript, and Postgres or MySQL.
• Experience with unit testing (rspec, Jest, etc.) and background workers (Sidekiq).
• Experience working from design docs/specifications and frameworks.
• Knowledge of Vue.js, React, Solr, service workers architecture, and advanced SQL (nice to have).

We're hiring people based in one of the following countries: the United States, Canada, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Romania, or Poland.

Benefits

• Hubstaff is a fast-growing time-tracking and project management startup that fully embraces remote work.
• Our team has people from 30 different countries: we value and welcome diverse backgrounds.
• We expect our professionals to work 40 hours/week and hope they can work with us for years to come.
• We are looking for someone in the American or EMEA timezone for this particular position. 
• Flexibility is essential to us, so Hubstaff offers this flexibility in your day-to-day life and also in terms of contract type.
• Our professionals can be hired as contractors (payment/hour) or as employees in more than 25 countries (salaried and getting additional benefits like vacations, paid leaves as sick or maternity or paternity leave, equipment and training bonuses, and health insurance, among others).
• We get the whole team together on our Annual Retreats to have fun while traveling and getting to know each other! So, while 2020 had us virtually meeting because of the pandemic, we met in person in the Dominican Republic in 2022 and in Mexico in 2023, and we are now preparing an outstanding in-person retreat in Europe for this year, 2024. Ready to join us?
• Annual Salary: this will depend on your country's location/currency/taxes and, most importantly, based on your experience/skills. But you should expect a yearly gross salary between USD 80,000.00 and USD 100,000.00.

Curious? You can find more about Hubstaff and what it's like working with us here. In addition, you can read more about us on our website and learn more about our history and work philosophy on our blog.