What you’ll do
You’ll collaborate to build, maintain and streamline our large application, working with Ruby, Rails, Postgres and more. Some examples of the work you’ll be doing include the following:
continually improving our fetching code, which grabs information about millions of properties throughout each day integrating against a new REST api to give our customers even more info about a house making our mobile website a more pleasant experience rewriting a SQL query to be 100x faster You’ll have both the opportunity and the independence to tackle all kinds of challenges: some days you’ll work on refactoring a legacy part of the app to make it do something new, and on others, you’ll build a brand new, greenfield feature. You
You care about both building and maintaining a clean, readable, well tested codebase. We’re looking for someone with Ruby experience. We do Ruby, Rails, Postgres, plus JavaScript, CSS and HTML on the front end. We don’t require you to know all of those, but you should be comfortable in Ruby, and familiar with Rails. You communicate and collaborate with the whole team, be it to work through tough code problems or clarify product specifications.
About Us We’re a small team focused on opening up the old school real estate world. Our goal is to build the best place for people to browse, shop for, and buy homes. We employ an iterative approach to building products and deploy multiple times a day. We have a big vision. We believe in hiring smart people and giving them the support and flexibility to succeed. If you work locally, you’ll be in a relaxed and fun office in the Belltown neighborhood. We’re looking to hire the best people wherever they are in the world. If you don’t want to relocate to beautiful Seattle, you should be awesome at working from home and available to join our daily standup at 10am Pacific. Some developers live in Seattle and come into the Estately office, but the majority live and work remotely, including several who live outside of the United States. We’ve had remote developers since 2011, and are seasoned veterans of working with a distributed team, across multiple timezones.
Our Hiring Process
We don’t believe in algorithmic interviews under hostile conditions. We’ll never ask you to invert a binary tree on a whiteboard or interview you with five interviewers at the same time. We like our recruiting process to be transparent to you. It roughly consists of the following steps:
An initial call between you and a member of our team We’ll tell you more about the work that you’d be doing, and why we think Estately is a great place to work. You’ll have the opportunity to ask us lots of questions, too. We’ll ask you about your experience and some technical questions, mostly to get a feel for where you’re at as we move forward with the process.
Individual Exercise We have a few practical challenges to assess technical knowledge. Over the course of a few hours, you’ll be fixing a bug in our app (that we’ve previously fixed), so we can see how you approach solving a realistic problem.
Pairing on a Few Potential Features Finally, during the pairing exercises you’ll pair with one of our developers to implement an (existing) feature in the app. This will take a couple hours or so, and will mostly consist of discussion about approach, with some coding in the midst of it.
Diversity
Estately seeks to increase the ratio of women and underrepresented minorities in software engineering and development, we encourage women and people from underrepresented groups to apply for this position.
Estately is striving to be a diverse team, made of and built by people with different backgrounds and lifestyles. We don’t discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, age, religion, color, or any other group.
