About the Role
We’re looking for an independent and ambitious fullstackengineerwho wants to make a big impact at this early stage in our roadmap.
As a engineer at Almanac, you will be responsible for building out the intuitive, interactive experiences that our customers need to organize theirdocumentation, as well ascontributingto the backend architecture and endpoints that we need to support those features.
Specifically, you will:
Regularly build and shiphigh-impact features from scratch
Write well-tested code in a modern technology stack
Participate in standups, code reviews and retrospectives with our remote team
Work closely with our Head of Engineering and the engineering team to make architecture and design decisions
Help make sure everything runs smoothly & safely in production
Set down standards around development, code review and deployment
Our tech stack
Rails, Postgres, React, Algolia, Terraform
Team size: 11-50 people
Things we love
- Deploying 20 times a day, simple JSON APIs,RSpec & Cypress, Algolia, git, giphy integrations, continuous delivery, Heroku, vim (ok, maybe just me), Tartine croissants
What you bring to the role
You have at least 3years of full stack experience,buildingfrontends in React—or any other JS framework—whilst also being confident working with Ruby on the backend.
Youunderstand the tradeoffsbetween quality and speed in an early stage startup environment.
You are passionate about getting things live and iterating fast.
You’reconfidentwriting automated tests, and you get excited by little green dots.
You are a strong communicatorand can clearly explain the tasks and tradeoffsfor new features.
You care about the feature as a whole, not just the implementation, and can make smaller decisions on your own when required.
Working at Almanac
At Almanac, we:
Are fundamental optimists who believe we’re still only at the start of the digital age.
Desire working with deeply kind, mission-driven people.
Strive to make the complex simple.
Use first principles to debate ideas, test assumptions, and make decisions.
Seek the truth by putting data above opinions.
Assume good intent and give tactical feedback to help each other get better.
Hold no ego—when our customers win, we all win.
As a company, we are seriously committed to your professional development and growth:
You will set your own monthly goals aligned with our ambitious strategy
You will have our collective support in achieving major wins—and personal coaching from your manager
You will be encouraged to take risks, try new things, and be creative with your work
You will have many opportunities to exchange and engage in feedback
You will be offered continual chances to stretch yourself and raise your own bar
You will be rewarded for achieving excellence and mastery
