Senior Full Stack Engineer (Rails / React)

• Test driven excellence
• Iteration, refactorings, and continuous improvement
• Owning and supporting the things we build
• Pragmatic technology choices
• Customer centered thinking and goal orientation
• Sustainable pace

We're hitting the next phase in our growth and so we're hiring in a number of roles. We need you to help take our product, and scale, to the next level., As a senior full-stack developer, you will join the team responsible for product development of our core products. These are high scale SPAs backed by one or more backend services. This includes the referral marketing technology embedded in client sites, as well as the CRM and CMS systems that support it.

We like choosing the right tool for the job, meaning you get to work with tools and methods you decide are right. We have a good mix of supporting existing apps, building new user experiences, and constantly delivering new features for our in-house team all with high quality feedback cycles.

Our tech stack is primarily React front ends backed by Ruby / Rails, Postgres, and Redis. We're running on Heroku and lower-level AWS services through Terraform to bring our platform to enterprise-level clients with high security and scale requirements. We love to keep it simple.

YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO:

• Design solutions from the ground up
• Be part of a diverse team to see how diversity leads to high performing teams
• Review code from other members of your team
• Pair and learn with other members of your team
• Troubleshoot
• Take full responsibility for stories from inception to delivery
• Work closely with Product managers and company wide stakeholders
• Help your teammates improve in their skills and knowledg, * Use a variety of technologies
• Bring new suggestions to the table for evaluation and experimentation
• Deliver business value to end users with cycle times measured in days and weeks, not months and quarters
• Work at a sustainable pace so you can enjoy your productivity
• Lead projects

WE'LL HELP YOU:

• Ensure your work is challenging
• Grow you to the next stage of your career
• Impact the business in a meaningful way
• Develop skills outside of pure tech
• Support you in learning our systems
• Give you the space to concentrate AND make sure you don't feel isolated

• 5 years Javascript (ES6 and Typescript) experience

• 5 years React experience include v18 and up

• 2 years of Ruby on Rails experience (.NET / Python experience is good too)

• Comfort with build pipelines, continuous integration, and docker
• Proficiency with Git source control
• Strong HTML and CSS ability, including experience with Tailwind CSS
• Good communication skills in written, verbal, and code
• Knowledge of: sidekiq, rswag/openapi, tailwind, graphql, react hook form, react-query, terraform

• Initial chat with our CTO on Google Meet
• Technical interview with some members of the team

• No whiteboard technical test
• No take home code exercise
• Questions on previous design challenges
• Some technical questions for the basics

• Final interview and catch up with CTO and anyone else you're interested in talking with

We're the tech team at Buyapowa, a marketing tech firm from London. We are a fully distributed team working remotely across Europe and also Vancouver. We're small and mighty, working on the most important projects in the business at all times. Delivering joy, productivity, and stability all at once.