Hi Bryan, Could this be a remote position?
Josue 2018-05-16 17:12 GMT-05:00 <br...@prefer.com>: > Hello! > > I lead engineering at Prefer, and we’re looking to hire an experienced > Ruby on Rails engineer to own our backend stack. Please feel free to reach > out if you’d be interested in hearing more! > > -Bryan > > https://prefer.com/careers/lead-backend-engineer > > We are currently recruiting an experienced software engineer to join our > small engineering team as the lead backend contributor. Ideal candidates > are fearless problem solvers excited to contribute to a small company in a > wide variety of ways. > > While your primary focus will be server-side development, this is a > product engineering role. As an incredibly small engineering team, we work > together to come up with solutions to push the Prefer product and network > forward. Your backend expertise will allow us to pick the right technology > to accomplish each distinct product and company goal, and execute > accordingly as a team. > > > Responsibilities > > - Primary development of the backend (Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Redis) > that powers our iOS and web apps (both of which consume the same API) > - Provisioning and managing every part of our cloud infrastructure > - Partnering with the rest of the engineering team to evolve our > overall technical architecture > - Working closely with our operations team, supporting them through > scripts, data, and internal tooling > - Collaborating with our CEO and Head of Design to make impactful > product decisions > > Requirements > > - Extensive server-side experience, preferably in Ruby on Rails (or a > similar framework: Django, Express, etc.) > - A deep understanding of HTTP and RESTful API design > - Experience with SQL and data modeling > - Enthusiasm around taking part in the product development process > > If interested, you’d also be more than welcome to contribute to our > frontend web (React) and/or native iOS (Swift) codebases. > > Location is either New York or San Francisco. > > > What is Prefer? > > Prefer is building a platform to power a better future of work. We aim to > empower anyone with skills and motivation to succeed as an independent > professional. > > We are an early-stage technology company, founded by experienced > entrepreneurs and funded by top-tier venture investors including Benchmark, > Garrett Camp, and Scott Belsky, and technologists such as Mike Krieger > (Instagram), Hugo Barra (VR at Facebook, Ex-Head of Android), Jennifer > Hyman (CEO Rent the Runway), Sam Lessin (Ex-VP Product at Facebook), Kayvon > Beykpoor (CEO Periscope), Adam D’Angelo (CEO Quora), and David Karp > (founder Tumblr). > > > What are we building? > > To support independent employment of all kinds, the core of what we’re > building is a network of professionals and a graph of their working > relationships (complete with rich metadata and semantic meaning: who knows > who, who has worked with who in the past, who has referred new business to > who, ad nauseam). Making sense of the various ways in which these > professionals build reputation through contributions towards this growing > subset of the economy, and using our graph to facilitate new interactions, > is how we plan to make working for yourself more and more tenable over time. > > We believe that there will be immense opportunity to build new > applications on top of the Prefer network, and we want you to help us build > it. > > In exploring this opportunity for over a year, we've been able to get very > close to our users and deeply understand the problem space. However, we're > still in the early stages of defining and growing this product. We’re not > looking for someone to execute a set roadmap; we want you to play a big > part in continuing to figure this out with us – our technology, our > product, and our company – as we go along. > > Working at Prefer > > A culture of inclusiveness > > We welcome you, as you are, to join us at Prefer. Your background and > ideas will contribute towards a diverse outlook on a vast, challenging, and > meaningful problem-space. Our values guide the way that we approach > building not only our product, but also our team and company. > > > Comprehensive health and vacation benefits > > We offer comprehensive health care for you and your family, as well as > paid family leave. > > Our vacation policy specifically encourages taking care of yourself and > spending time with friends and family. We encourage quality over quantity, > and balance over workaholism. > > > Respect and collaboration > > We believe that we’re at our best when collaboration occurs across the > whole company. 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