Senior Rails Engineer

Summary

Join HopSkipDrive as a Senior Rails Engineer and contribute to our mission of creating opportunity through mobility. As an expert in Ruby, Rails, and web development, you will own technical design for complex features and large-scale projects. You will be responsible for the full project lifecycle, from problem identification to final delivery, while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with cross-functional teams. This remote role requires 5+ years of professional software engineering experience and 3+ years with Ruby on Rails. HopSkipDrive offers a competitive salary, equity, flexible vacation, comprehensive benefits, and the opportunity to work in a fast-growing, impactful company.

Requirements

• 3+ years hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails
• 5+ years of professional software engineering
• Advanced experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL
• A thirst for knowledge and continuous learning
• Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical teammates and show a high level of emotional and professional maturity
• Past success when presented with projects of increasing complexity over time across multiple areas or domains of the code/product
• Previously earned a high level of trust amongst team to own a task/project without needing much supervision
• A high level of craftsmanship about your work, the end experience of the user, and impact on overall product
• A connection to HopSkipDrive’s mission and values

Responsibilities

• Contribute meaningfully to the definition of user stories, seeking to tie stories back to user value & impact for our drivers and organizers
• Actively pursue improving engineering skills, including but not limited to problem solving, writing readable/testable/efficient code, mastering technology in our stack, and learning to anticipate scaling issues
• Alert manager/team to any issues preventing your work from being accomplished, asks for help
• Deconstruct a problem into an executable action plan for yourself and other engineers
• Own and complete full projects beginning with identifying and communicating the problems to be solved, getting and incorporating feedback on proposed architectural solutions, and making a final decision as the project owner
• Lean into challenges when they offer the potential to create large impact, and do so with productivity and positivity
• Be highly productive - have a reputation for getting things done quickly and efficiently
• Make sure your code is readable, easy to maintain, and tested appropriately
• Review other engineers’ code and provide constructive feedback
• Participate in on-call rotation
• Monitor changes in production and rollback if necessary
• Have production access and use it responsibly
• Be able to dive into any area of the code/product that you are not familiar with and make changes, guide others in how to do this
• Show curiosity to not only learn new things but fully understand how they work
• Be a mentor for other engineers, setting and maintaining high individual and team expectations
• Be able to communicate well with all level of engineers
• Monitor the outcomes of the team’s actions to learn from mistakes and replicate successes
• Interview prospective candidates and provide thoughtful evaluations and feedback

Benefits

• Equity
• Flexible vacation
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• 401(k)
• FSA
• Opportunity to work for a uniquely positioned, VC-backed company in a hugely attractive space with significant upside potential
• Equity stock options