Intermediate Fullstack Software Developer (Backend Focused)

Summary

Join OpsLevel as a Software Engineer and contribute to our culture of 'you build it, you own it' by proactively looking for and embracing opportunities to improve the application and fix operational issues.

Requirements

• An empathetic, honest, and collaborative approach to problem solving, for users done is better than perfect
• A vibrant growth mindset. You’re comfortable learning new things. Unknowns are new frontiers waiting to be discovered
• Experience designing interfaces with strong boundaries and separation of concerns. Your craft is rooted in SOLID design principles
• Some experience working on modern web applications with Rails, or a similar web application framework (eg: Spring, Django, Node.js )
• Experience designing data models with MySQL. You have an understanding and knowledge of how data structures play a critical role in the performance of an application, how and where to use indices, and have discovered, debugged, and fixed slow queries

Responsibilities

• Contribute to our culture of ‘you build it, you own it’ by proactively looking for and embracing opportunities to improve the application and fix operational issues
• Work with product, UX, and fellow developers to gain a deep understanding of problems and features, collaborating and executing on the solution
• Hold a high bar of personal excellence, demonstrated through high quality, thoroughly tested code contributions and reviews
• Make code contributions that follow the latest & best practices in Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, and database design
• Build private and public GraphQL API’s that power the OpsLevel front-end experience and CLI capabilities
• Use agile spikes to research, present, and lead discussions that solve pieces of a larger problem
• Execute projects in a timely manner, helping the team prioritize work to deliver the best value for customers if the team is off track
• Discover and explore unfamiliar technologies, ideas, and concepts on a daily basis, strengthening your core skills as a developer
• Participate in our oncall schedule, where you may be required to troubleshoot across our core technical stack (Ruby on Rails, VueJS, GraphQL, and MySQL)

Benefits

We offer market-leading compensation, including equity, based on the skill set and aptitude of the candidate