Remote Senior Full Stack Engineer (💰~$140k) at FetLife | RemoteOK

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Job Description

At FetLife we’re looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to help us better serve the community.

The Job

As a Full Stack Engineer, you’ll be focusing on improving our codebase to make it more performant and easier to maintain.

Currently, our platform is built as a majestic Rails monolith, using Vue.js with Typescript on the front-end, and enhanced by Rust for select services and gems.

More details about our tech stack:

  • Testing is done with RSpec & Capybara
  • Continuous integration and deployment are done with CircleCI & GitHub Actions
  • MySQL and PostgreSQL for our main databases
  • ScyllaDB for our activity feeds
  • Redis for session storage, queue management, and caching
  • ElasticSearch for full-text search
  • DevOps using Containers orchestrated with Kubernetes and Helm
  • Monitoring and alerting is done with DataDog, New Relic, and Sentry
  • Infrastructure managed with Terraform
  • Hosting on Google Cloud (planning to move towards bare metal)
  • CDN and endpoint protection using Cloudflare and Fastly

About you

We’re looking for someone who has proven experience building and maintaining large production-level Ruby on Rails applications in the past.

Ideally, you have experience:

  • Working with a modern front-end framework (ideally Vue)
  • Writing semantic JavaScript and (or) Typescript
  • Working with Redis, MySQL or PostgreSQL
  • Writing unit and integration tests using RSpec and Capybara

Additionally, since we’re 100% remote, we:

  • Highly value strong written communicators
  • Require three hours overlap any time between 10 AM and 6 PM CET

About Us

FetLife is the largest kinky social network on this side of the Milky Way. We:

  • Have over 10 million members and growing
  • Grew 100% by word-of-mouth
  • Serve over 3 billion requests a day

You can find our team and core values here.

Pay & Benefits

We use a standardised salary calculator for each position to ensure we are competitive, fair, and consistent. For this specific role, the rate is between $115k – $170k USD / year.

Additionally, we offer:

  • Paid time off:
    • 2 weeks vacation
    • 5 statutory holidays (e.g. Easter & Thanksgiving)
    • 2 weeks during Christmas
    • 4-day workweeks during the summer months (July & August)
  • Annual company retreat (e.g. Malaga, Miami, Vancouver, and Montreal)
  • Annual anniversary gift (200$ USD for every year with us, e.g. 4th anniversary is $800)
  • Monthly streaming music subscription reimbursement
  • Fully paid maternity and paternity leave

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