Job Details
Responsibilities:
- Assist in designing, developing, testing, maintaining and improving system
- Participate in product planning management discussions for better understanding of the company’s products
- User oriented when delivering features and developer oriented when delivering codes
- Self-manage and deliver features without handholding
Hard problems we are trying to solve:
- Business: We deliver real business results to ecommerce businesses of all sizes, with our super affordable tool delivering great ROI to customers by improving trust, generating reviews which improve conversion rates on product pages, and generating follow-up sales directly.
- Technical: One of the challenges is building web UI components that adapt on thousands of different websites. We call this as frontend at the 4th dimension. Issues, which are typically not obvious, are magnified at this level. Our coding, debugging, problem solving, structural thinking skills and our perception on the significance of coding standards will be boosted.
- Performance: at our moderate scale with millions of requests a day, albeit not as much as Google’s or Facebook’s, simple code can make considerable impact. We will learn when to break the conventions to tune for performance.
Job Requirements
Requirements / Skills:
- BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Familiarity with our tech stack:
- Ruby, Rails
- PostgreSQL
- CSS, HTML, Vanilla JavaScript
- Concurrent processing with Sidekiq
- Git, GitHub, GitHub flow
- Familiarity with coding standards and best practices
- 1+ years experience
- Self-management
- Good enough English for Slack
Ideally:
- Good problem solving skills with understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Security and performance awareness
- Familiarity with more tech stack:
- AWS services, e.g. EC2, EB, ES, S3
- NodeJS, PHP, Python, Bash
- Redis, MongoDB
- Experience with ecommerce platforms, e.g. Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce
- Have an investment mentality, and want to build for the long term
- Great written and spoken English
We offer
- We are a bootstrapped, profitable and growing SaaS company. We build our own products that customers love, we grow organically by word of mouth with little to none ads.
- Our team is small and growing steadily, your work will have significant impacts and be appreciated by customers and team members.
- We are diversified and international, with team members around the globe.
- First hand experience with our customers. You can see thousands of ecommerce businesses, of all sizes and types, managing their businesses and learn from them.
- Flexible work hours. No overtime. No dress code, wear whatever you want (but wear something of course).
- Open work environment. Ideas and feedbacks are welcome and appreciated. Criticism is always blameless and constructive. We want ourselves to improve after all.
- Healthy codebase. Zero (or a few) WTF moments when onboarding to our codebase.Thorough and constructive code review. We will push ourselves toward and learn to write better codes together.