Headquarters: FetLife
URL: https://fetlife.com

At FetLife, you will be responsible for

• Continuously implementing and deploying small and iterative improvements to FetLife
• Working with product designers to find a balance between the ideal solution and the most impactful iterative improvement
• Measuring the impact of changes against our measures of success
• Working with our security, infrastructure, and performance team to keep FetLife tight
• Communicating asynchronously with the team and the rest of the community
• Keeping our codebase easy to maintain and easy for others to contribute code to
• Monitoring your deployments for potential issues
• Prioritizing and fixing bugs

Our Technology Stack

• Rails monolith
• Frontend being mostly Vue.js with TypeScript
• Testing is done with RSpec & Capybara
• Continuous integration and deployment done with Circle CI
• MySQL and PostgreSQL for our main database
• Redis for our activity feeds, session storage, queue management, and caching
• ElasticSearch for full-text search
• DevOps using Docker images orchestrated with Kubernetes and Helm
• Service and performance monitoring is done with Datadog and NewRelic

You should have experience

• Maintaining a production-level Ruby on Rails applications (4+ years)
• Leading the implementation of larger projects
• Writing semantic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Working with Redis and MySQL
• Writing clear, concise, and performant code
• Writing unit and integration tests
• Continuously deploying code

Bonus if you have experience

• Working productively on a small 100% remote team
• Reasoning about software, algorithms, and performance from a high level
• Writing SQL queries, beyond abstractions offered by Active Record
• Navigating and understanding a large codebase
• With technologies other than Ruby and Rails
• Writing tests using Rspec and Capybara
• With Javascript libraries including but not limited to: Vue.js
• Reading and writing TypeScript
• Maintaining infrastructure with Docker, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud
• Working in an agile and/or lean environment
• Shipping and maintaining open-source software

To be successful at FetLife, you need to be

• Independent but also a team player
• Self-motivated and have strong organizational skills
• Vocal about your opinions but not married to them
• Driven to learn and self-improve
• A strong written communicator
• Have core overlap hours from 8-12 AM EST (2-6 PM CET)

Bonus if you have a

• Passion and eye for user experience and product design

At FetLife we

• Are 100% remote, work from multiple time zones
• Use Notion, Slack, and GitHub to collaborate
• Are community driven and work both hard and smart

Why work with FetLife

• Have your work impact millions of people
• Work with a great group of people from all over the world
• Develop and grow as a Engineer
• Gain a broader and deeper understanding of human sexuality and kink

More about FetLife

• Largest kinky social network this side of the milky way
• Have over 10 million members and growing
• Grew 100% by word-of-mouth
• Serve over 1.5 billion requests a day

How we hire

• Everyone initially starts as either a part-time or full-time contractor
• If over time we both believe it's a good fit, and you're interested in something more permanent, we then will make you a more permanent offer
• Salary range for this position is $115k - $155k USD

How to apply

• Quick introduction about yourself
• Tell us about 2-3 of your favourite projects you worked on
• Link to your GitHub or GitLab account (if you have one)
• Why you believe you are the right person for this role
• Link to your LinkedIn profile -and/or- a copy of your resume in PDF format