Sr. Backend Engineer (Direct Hire)

JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position - No agencies (See notes below)

LOCATION: Remote (TimeZone:     )

HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $100  - $120 USD / HR

ESTIMATED DURATION: 40Hrs/Week

What you'll do

• Work on our main app, which contains the majority of our business logic and is written in Ruby-on-Rails and backed by PostgreSQL and Redis

• Work on numerous support services (including our work scheduler and VM management system - both of which manage hundreds of thousands of requests a day) written in a variety of languages (Elixir, Golang, Crystal, Node, Python) chosen because of their suitability to the problem the service is solving

• Work on internal tooling to improve the development experience of other engineers and ship faster and safer

• Collaborate with product managers and our customer facing teams to analyze customer problems and design high impact features

• Lead projects to implement those features

• Help other team members to achieve their goals

• Continuously learn about new technologies and ways to solve problems

• Work with our customer facing teams to triage, troubleshoot, and fix bugs

• Write unit and integration tests (using our own product!) to ship high quality software

What we’re looking for

• Extensive experience in Ruby (or equivalent dynamic language) and be extremely knowledgeable of the language and associated ecosystem

• Extensive experience in Ruby on Rails (or equivalent framework) and be extremely knowledgeable of the framework and associated ecosystem

• Experience in writing and debugging SQL

• Enthusiasm for building applications using tools like Ruby on Rails, Golang, Elixir, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, BigQuery, and Kubernetes - amongst others

• Practical experience of working on a React codebase

• Even though this position is mainly backend focused, we expect you to have some grasp of the whole stack to be able to effectively communicate with engineers across the team, and can make frontend or infrastructure changes when the situation calls for it

• Professional experience in engineering SaaS products

• Experience leading projects with teams

• An ownership mindset: you should look not only at what you’re asked to do, but ask why you’re doing it and how it impacts on the rest of the product, our customers, and whether it makes sense. We expect you to be responsible for your work and to resolve any bugs you might ship

• Excitement to learn

• Excellent communication skills and able to give and receive constructive feedback

• Happy to review code and have your code reviewed

• Can work effectively remotely with remote team members (we are a fully distributed company)

• Comfortable working in a large codebase with many stakeholders

How we’ll reward you

• Competitive salary plus equity.

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for employees, 75% for dependents (U.S., only).

• Unlimited paid time-off (PTO).

• A weekly allowance for lunches and a monthly allowance for remote office supplies or personal development.

• Semi-annual company off-sites in exciting destinations around the world.

• 12 weeks of paid maternity leave and 8 weeks of paid leave for supporting parents.

• 401k (U.S., only).

Restrictions

• We are currently unable to hire from the following regions: China, France, Iran, Egypt, Russia

ABOUT THE HIRING PROCESS:

Qualified candidates will be invited to do a screening interview with the Braintrust staff. We will answer your questions about the project, and our platform.  If we determine it is the right fit for both parties, we'll invite you to join the platform and create a profile to apply directly for this project.  

C2C Candidates: This role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. But if you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around your consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.  

Braintrust values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.