Job details
Job type full-time
Full job description
About the role:
As a backend engineer, you will be a key contributor to the growth, innovation, and continued improvement of scott`s cheap flightsYou will be collaborating with a lean team to write code designed to scale.
In the short term, you will...
Become familiar with our code base, code style, tech stack, development and deployment process, and our project management process
Contribute to design and code reviews
Work with a cross-functional team to support development of new features
Refactor, qa, and improve existing code
In the long term, you will...
Be an expert with all of our tooling: bugsnag, metabase, heroku, new relic, and more
Bring creative solutions to projects to support the continual improvement of scott`s cheap flights
Take ownership of end to end feature and product development and help scale our back end
What you bring to the table:
Experience working on new product development
Hands on expertise with ruby/rails
Experience writing automated unit tests, with bonus points for integrated and functional testing experience
You care about performance, usability, and accessibility across all devices
Empathy and passion to build production-ready features
Clear and earnest written and verbal communication skills
High standards for yourself and the code you write
Flexibility and an open-mindedness and willingness to learn
Technologies we use:
Ruby on rails is our primary server framework
React is our primary front end development framework
Postgres and redis are our primary storage engines
Bigquery for our data warehouse
Heroku for deployments and infrastructure
Github for source code management
Circle ci for continuous integration
Notion for documentation and collaboration
Clubhouse for project management
Why you might love working here:
100% remote work environment, so go ahead and bring your dog to work or wear your pj`s to the office!
Open vacation policy, with a 3 week minimum!
Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance
401(k) with a 5% match
Up to 12-weeks of paid family leave
Meetup meals when you cross paths with a co-worker
Continuing education & development reimbursement
Yearly team retreat (in 2019, we went to riviera maya and last year we went virtual and had a costume contest!)
Challenging problems to solve and an awesome team to collaborate with every single day
We want you to bring your authentic self to work every single dayWe accept you for who you are and consider everyone on an equal opportunity basis without regard to ancestry; age; appearance; color; gender identity and/or expression; genetics; family or parental status; marital, civil union, or domestic partnership status; mental, physical, or sensory disability; national, social or ethnic origin; past or present military service; sexual orientation; socioeconomic status; race; religion or belief.
if you require a reasonable accommodation or assistance for any part of the interview and employment process, please contact us at careers@scottscheapflights.com and let us know the nature of your request.
