Senior Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

Overview:
Corporate Tools is hiring Senior Software Engineers specializing in Ruby on Rails for up to $185,000/year. You will be a traditional company employee. This is a full time 40 hour/week position with company benefits. This is a remote position. Our main office is in Spokane WA, and we have satellite offices in Austin TX and Salt Lake City UT.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be given large projects and be expected to break these projects into medium-sized tasks for our Software Engineers, all while maintaining focus on the big picture goals and projects. You will have the opportunity to make a direct impact on architecture design. You'll get to work with a team of engineers who like to do things the right way versus plowing through just to meet a goal. We have no investors or micro-managed goals. We just want to make high-end software that is easy to continually improve.
You can expect a diverse team with different backgrounds, experience and identities. You will have current members of the team eager to help you get up to speed as quickly as possible. Solid fundamentals with software, teamwork, systems, and troubleshooting will pave the way.
What's in a title?
Here at Corporate Tools we don't take titles very seriously. We know for recruiting purposes we need to call our jobs something, so we started with labeling and differentiating them in a fairly traditional way with "junior, mid, senior". However, we've realized that was putting our employees in a box and wasn't allowing us to uniquely identify their individual contributions, strengths and professional goals. Once you join our team the titles kinda get dropped as we expect everyone to work with everyone regardless of title or experience. We have taken the approach of evaluating candidates and employees on a "level" basis. It makes it a little easier internally to talk about growing into the next level without there being this huge chasm between what it means to be a Junior Engineer vs. a Mid Engineer. Our levels have expectations set for each one and it's the responsibility of the manager and employee to make sure there is alignment. We do this through quarterly conversations where we discuss employee progression, if the work is challenging, and to ensure they feel fairly compensated for their work and expertise. Basically, levels gives us more flexibility to help people grow in their careers. But sure, you can post your title on LinkedIn as what makes sense to the rest of the world.
Wage:
Up to $185,000/year
Benefits:

• 100% employer-paid medical, dental and vision for employees
• Annual review with raise option
• 22 days Paid Time Off accrued annually, and 4 holidays
  • After 3 years, PTO increases to 29 days. Employees transition to flexible time off after 5 years with the company-not accrued, not capped, take time off when you want
  • The 4 holidays are: New Year's Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day
• Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Up to 5% company matching 401(k) with no vesting period
• Quarterly allowance
  • Use to make your remote work set up more comfortable, for continuing education classes, a plant for your desk, coffee for your coworker, a massage for yourself... really, whatever
• Open concept office with friendly coworkers
• Creative environment where you can make a difference
• No dumb benefits like free dog walking on the weekends that snobby hipster places have to make you feel cool, but mathematically won't cost the company much money because you won't use it
• Trail Mix Bar --- oh yeah

Responsibilities:

• Be a good human
• Treat your co-workers with respect
• Have a Growth Mindset, not a Fixed Mindset
• Remember that it's a marathon, not a sprint. Help us bring calm to what can creep into a rush
• Design, implement, document, and maintain front and back end systems for high-traffic applications
• Help peel off monolith code into well-organized architecture
• Help drive technical standards for the team
• Design and implement novel systems from scratch, from billing to all kinds of crazy ideas we come up with
• Help us set a high bar for quality, from code and systems to how we treat each other
• Take substantial features from concept to shipping
• Provide material feedback on the work of junior and mid-level programmers
• Monitor and ensure automated processes run as expected
• Perform routine automation assignments with minimum supervision
• Communicate consistently with stakeholders, managers, and other teams about releases
• Participate in the training or development of others, as directed
• Be willing to learn, grow, and help all of us continually get better at what we do

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or other equivalent degree/experience
• Minimum of 6 years full stack application development, software test automation experience, and object oriented development
• 4+ years working with back-end frameworks such as Rails, Laravel, Django, etc.
• 4+ years working front-end frameworks such as Vue, Angular, React, etc.
• 2+ years working with relational databases and writing SQL queries or stored procedures
• Advanced level of querying in ORMs such as ActiveRecord and Sequel
• Experience mentoring junior to mid-level engineers while balancing current work
• High proficiency in some of the following AWS services: ECS, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, ElasticSearch, VPC
• Proficient in vanilla JavaScript (outside of using it with a modern web framework)
• High level of ability coding in Ruby and expert level familiarity with the Rails framework
• Experience with large Rails/Rack- based applications