Senior Rails Engineer
Job Description
As a Senior Rails Software Engineer, you will:
- Work closely with our product & design team to translate and execute product vision into scalable product.
- Be a stakeholder in engineering and product strategy -- this isn’t just another place to knock down story points and tickets -- you’ll have meaningful and direct ownership in your work.
- Have the autonomy to ship code to production regularly and frequently.
- Develop tested, scalable core product features that are seamlessly integrated with our API driven frontend.
- Own the technical direction on key roadmap projects for the team.
- Mentor and coach junior developers on the team.
To be successful at this position, you’ll need to:
- A passion for building and maintaining quality user experiences on the web at scale.
- A belief in iterative development and the importance of delivering continuous value to customers.
- Strong understanding of modern software development methodologies and their best practices.
- Deep knowledge and experience with Ruby on Rails -- we use Ruby on Rails with some Node & Typescript to power our backend (and Vue on the frontend).
- Experience with relational SQL databases, schema, and query optimization. We’re big fans of PostgreSQL.
- You care about web performance/optimization and treat performance as a feature.
- Interest or experience in securing web applications is a plus.
Compensation and benefits:
- Highly competitive compensation
- Healthcare
- Stock options
- 401k
- Unlimited vacation
- Flexible work environment
About Workshop
Workshop is a fast growing, venture-backed startup based in Omaha, Nebraska and we’re on a mission to create more happy Mondays for employees everywhere. We build software to help internal communications teams create, send, and measure multi-channel, employee-centric campaigns.
