Ruby Engineer, Shogun, Remote

Posted October 27, 2020

Description:

We Are…

Shogun, and we’re on a mission to help people create the best eCommerce experiences in the world.

We were in the Winter 2018 batch of Y-Combinator, we just raised a Series A investment, we have over 14,000 active paying clients, and we’re preparing to launch a new product in 2020 (you can read more in Tech Crunch).

Our teams are fully distributed and global (check out our team page)! We have no office, so we are looking for team members that are comfortable with and motivated by the opportunity to work remotely.

An experienced Ruby / Ruby on Rails back-end Software Engineer in the United States, Canada, UK or Russia who will be working directly on one of our client-facing products, helping build and maintain the product is preferred.

In This Role You Will:

Design, build and maintain robust and scalable software using Ruby on Rails
Participate in architectural design discussions and planning sessions
Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity
Collaborate with your squad to solve problems ranging from scalability and performance to architecture and feature development
Scale, extend, and maintain our cross-functional APIs

Requirements and Qualifications:

Required:

Strong proficiency and working experience (4+ years) in Ruby
Fluency in testing frameworks such as RSpec and/or Cucumber
Experience working with multiple types of SQL and NoSQL datastores including MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and more
A good understanding of server-side templating languages such as Liquid and Slim
Experience in working on a medium-to-large monolithic codebase
Good hands-on knowledge of CI/CD tools
Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
Self-managing, both in motivation and learning
Work in line with our values

Desireable:

Experience working with a variety of backend and frontend languages such as Go and Node
Experience with React, GraphQL and Apollo
Experience with Fastly or VCL
Experience in Heroku, AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform
Experience with eCommerce platforms such as Shopify and BigCommerce
Comfort working in highly agile, iterative software development process
Working experience in a fully remote working environment

How to Apply:

You can apply here: https://apply.workable.com/getshogun/j/33E0D0067B/