Remote Staff Engineer

• Within 90 Days: Become familiar with the Engineering Teams internal processes, LeadSimples architecture and production environment, and the overall product using our customer facing documentation.
• Conduct technical interviews with potential engineering candidates and make recommendations to hiring managers.
• Participate in an on-call rotation at least three times
• Own the Engineering Teams maintenance pitches for betting table cycles. 
• Replace the Head of Engineering as the teams go-to advisor on technical decisions (including PR reviews).
• Identify, pitch, and successfully complete at least two high-impact, high-complexity projects.

• Unblock critical or complex requests from the team by providing expert review and advice.
• Actively share your knowledge and expertise to help the team level up.
• Review work samples from candidates and attend interviews.
• Provide Engineering Managers with feedback on performance and promotion decisions for individual team members.
• Advise the leadership team of ongoing engineering projects.
• Ensure consistent software quality by advocating for and leading adoption of industry best practices
• Manage the technical design, tasks, delivery and deadlines for assigned projects, following the Shape Up process.
• Write Shape Up pitches for potential projects to improve the scalability, performance or team productivity. Advocate for these projects at the Betting Table using data and analysis. 
• Help us scale the team, product and company by proposing improvements that will make us more effective.

• Monthly Friday Free Day
• Company Holidays
• Paid Time Off (in addition to the above)
• Monthly Healthcare Allowance
• Yearly Vacation Allowance
• Fun and outcome driven work environment with a smart, hard working team
• Location independence
• Mission driven company and values-based culture

• 7+ years in senior engineering roles involving Ruby, 3+ years involving React
• Fluent spoken and written English at a professional level.
• Working hours must overlap with PST for at least 3 hours.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL query optimization and scaling strategies
• Strong analytical and debugging skills
• Strong communication skills, able to recommend decisions using data and experience

• 10+ years in senior or staff software engineering roles involving Ruby, 5+ years involving React 
• React, Typescript or GraphQL experience
• Elixir experience (we have 1 service using Elixir)

• Typescript
• React 
• MaterialUI
• Relay
  

• Ruby on Rails monolith (with 95% test coverage)
• GraphQL (via graphql-ruby gem)
• Sidekiq
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Heroku

• Youll have opportunities to work on the entire stack, from databases to user interfaces and everything in between, in a wide variety of product areas.
• Youll own the delivery of high-impact projects that affect real customers, from start to finish, with no bureaucracy, following the Shape Up method. 
• Youll collaborate within a small, highly productive team, reviewing code and helping other engineers with their roadblocks.
• Youll have time to focus. We dont micromanage, and we do our best to keep distractions (and meetings) to a minimum. 
• When assigned to on-call duty, youll investigate and fix bugs and respond to incidents. 
• Youll deploy early and often. We ship to production multiple times per day.

• Remote-only team, location independent
• 3rd Friday of every month off
• 6 US Holidays
• 3 Weeks Paid Time Off (in addition to the above)
• Quarterly Two-Week Hackathons
• Monthly Healthcare Allowance
• Yearly Vacation Allowance
• $2000 equipment stipend upon hire
• Focused and dedicated environment with smart, caring people
• Consistent, but flexible working schedule with minimum 3hr Pacific Time Zone overlap
• Mission driven, non-political company and values-based culture

• Fill out our application, located here
• Intro call with People Operations (30 minutes)
• Offline work sample test (up to 60 minutes)
• Interview with Hiring Manager (up to 60-90 minutes)
• Possible panel interview (up to 60 minutes)
• Offer call (15 minutes), followed by a written offer
• If you accept the offer, you enter a 90-day trial period, fully paid.
• If all goes well in your first 90 days, you convert to a full-time team member!

Tagged as: Full-Time, postgresql, React, Ruby On Rails, Software Engineer, SQL