Ruby on Rails Software Engineer

Posted Mar 30, 2021, 17 views
  • saas
  • rspec
  • app
  • amazon
  • taxjar

There’s a person we want to work with.
Thing is, we're not talking about someone specific. In fact, that’s the problem. We’re talking about a set of traits and an attitude, which is scarce! We want developers who see things differently; that don't conform to the norm. You’re ready to get the job done, and even surprise us.
There are so many lousy job descriptions for developers in the world, we’re writing down what we’re looking for in hopes that this person (you?) is out there: You understand that communication is the biggest* responsibility of your job, and the one you’re least likely to get right unless you focus on it
* You focus on building and shipping quality software that matters to your users and that matters to the company you’re building it for
What we Expect from a Ruby on Rails Software Engineer:* Comfortable within a mature Rails codebase and have an openness to Elixir
* Take an active role in breaking large projects down into deliverable pieces
* Maintain clear and accurate documentation
* Consider the performance impacts of your technical choices
* Participate in architectural decisions and refactors
* Review and test your teammates’ pull requests
* Contribute to and maintain our existing Rspec test suites
* Maintain and update our core SaaS business logic
About you: 3+ years experience with Ruby on Rails and a test framework such as RSpec
* 3+ years of experience with backend database skills
* Ability to own development tasks from assignment through to production
* Agile, humble, trustworthy, and a team player
* Passion for building simple and intuitive solutions for complex problems in e-commerce
* Prior SaaS development, API development or similar app dev experience a plus
* Excellent remote communication (chat, video, email, etc)


TaxJar is a human-first company.

People are accepted and free to be who they are.
TaxJar’s 2020 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging report here**.
Benefits:* Excellent health, vision and dental benefits
* Flexible vacation
* Company holidays, plus mandatory Birthday holiday
* 12 weeks paid parental leave for all employees
* 4 hours volunteer time per month
* $250 Home office stipend
* 401k Plan
* Equity in a profitable company
* Monthly perks reimbursement ($100 a month to appreciate your teammates, Netflix, Amazon Prime, gym membership, home internet etc.)
Once you apply, we highly encourage you to check your spam and promotion folders for application updates. Please for a full list of our amazing benefits for full-time employees, and to learn more about our values and how we work. You can learn more about our hiring process here.
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