FullStack Developer

Purpose

An experienced full-stack engineer to join the Placeit team

What would I work on specifically?

• Build prototypes.
• Write technical specs.
• Journal your process.
• QA your work.
• Update tickets and keep work organized.
• Follow the methodologies that the company provides.
• Write efficient software.
• Work with stakeholders to understand tradeoffs.
• Follow up on issues/errors on a regular basis.

Required Skills/Experience

• HTML (different version) and their compatibilities.
• Component frameworks such as Bootstrap or Foundation.
• JS: programming model in JavaScript/inheritance model, scoping, differences between the three major versions of JS.
• HTTP: how the protocol generally works and how browsers generally deal with it.
• Web sockets and web workers.
• Experience with AJAX libraries (jQuery is required and one of these three: Backbone, Angular or React).
• Node.js
• Possess a good understanding of the syntax of Ruby and its nuances
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
• Experience designing, building large-scale Ruby on Rails applications
• Experience with common libraries such as RSpec and Rescue
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (e.g. Git, or SVN)
• Proficient in bash shell
• Familiarity with continuous integration and delivery
• Basic familiarity with networking systems, load balancers, and TCP/IP network constructs.
• Knowledge of performance and reliability monitoring strategies
• A knack for writing clean, readable Ruby code
• Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes

Bonus Skills

• Server administration/automation experience
• Worked with Aurora, Kinesis and other AWS services
• Have worked in large scale applications with at least 100k users
• Any background in video, audio or image processing on the server-side
• Clever problem solver.

Personal Competencies Required

You need to know how to:

• Be clever about how to approach problems
• Be technically curious (learning on your own)
• Have a serious interest in understanding the goal behind your work
• Push for doing things the right way the first time around
• Have empathy for our users
• Follow a formal process approach to engineering.

What does your engineering process look like?

We do believe that most people have a planning bias so most would think that we spend quite a bit of time in trying to clear and organize our minds before starting any task. We call it "X Workflow". You can read about X Workflow here.

What do we offer?

• Remote work in Mexico
• Private Medical Insurance
• Saving funds
• Full Law Benefits
• 10 days of paid holidays
• Profit-sharing (5% of company profits)
• Pay for roundtrip tickets to anywhere in Mexico 2x a year
• Inflation adjustment of salary
• Paid for educational courses
• Unlimited ebooks/books
• Topline equipment

If you are interested, submit your application here.