Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

Background

Over the past 18 years, Codeo has established itself as an integral technical partner for a number of high profile customers.

We've collaborated with customers on a number of amazing projects and have also been lucky enough to bootstrap successful product businesses along the way. We continue to actively support these products from an engineering and product design perspective.

In the last few years, we launched SendBoard - a Trello PowerUp that brings first class email support to Trello (see what Trello had to say about SendBoard on their blog).

Our customers value Codeo because we operate a highly competent and lean team. There is very little red tape. We don’t have layers of account managers and project managers between the customer and the people who actually add value (the folks that do the work). We’re lean in the context of size (we are a small team) but we also align our operations to the principles of lean manufacturing.

🚀 Codeo is on a mission to become more product focused.

We want to be invested in the products we help build. We want to leverage what we love and what we are brilliant at to make a positive impact on the way people live and work.

The Role

The job of delivering functional, beautiful, scalable, secure and user focused software is extremely challenging. There are so many angles and trade-offs to consider. For this reason, we are only considering experienced engineers for this role.

Experience

• 10+ years web development experience

• You have played a significant role in developing a complex web based application, where you had to account for scalability, reliability, security and performance of the application.

• Experience working with front and backend web technologies.

• Experience working and scaling applications using relational databases such as MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL.

• Experience working within a team environment.

Technologies

The tech landscape shifts rapidly, however, we’re currently working with the following technologies:

• **Ruby on Rails** - you love Ruby and have used Rails to develop one or more complex/functional web apps.

• JavaScript/TypeScript - used extensively for Stimulus, SPA frameworks and backend NodeJS services. Experience with **VueJS** or **React **would be useful.

• **C# ** ASP .NET MVC/WebAPI (transitioning to .NET 8) experience is not required, but a bonus. We have a number of .NET services hanging around.

• MySQL or any other relational database technology where you’ve gone beyond just querying a database, and have had to consider concurrency, scalability and performance.

• Redis

• Git - we use GitHub as our repository service.

• TDD - experience writing and maintaining unit and integration tests is important to us.

• Docker - experience using Docker to build, share or run applications would be useful.

What you need

We’re looking for experienced candidates only. Characteristics and values we think are important:

• Keen attention to detail - you spot grammar and misalignment issues from a mile away.

• Efficacy - you hate inefficiency, for this reason you type at the speed you think.

• Excellence - you hold yourself to the highest standard and you believe your work says a lot about you. Quality is personal to you.

• Curiosity - you ask questions and like to get stuck into the details and understand how things work.

• Value User Experience - you take an interest in user experience, adopting the mindset that we shouldn’t make our customers think. You also always ask why?

• Be in it together - you value your peers because you know what a small team of happy and motivated people can achieve.

• Purpose - you find happiness through solving challenging problems.

• Be Hungry to be better you are on a never ending quest to learn and improve, you’re never “done”.

• No ego - It’s not about you, you are a team player and practice blameless problem solving.

• Ownership you step up and take ownership of challenges.

• Innovation - you push boundaries and thrive on finding elegant, simple solutions.

Location

This is a remote role. We have team members in 🇿🇦 South Africa, 🇳🇱 Netherlands and the 🇬🇧 UK. So, you’re free to operate from where you work best.

Perks

• Choose your workstation - Work on what you’re most comfortable with, whether it be the top of the range PC or a high-end Apple MacBook Pro.

• Flexible hours: Work-life balance is critical to us. To accommodate busy lifestyles, we don’t expect a rigid 9-5 commitment.

• Remote Work: We’re geared to work from anywhere, so wherever is best for you, is best for us.

• No ‘if this then that’ rewards: Everyone gets an annual 13th Cheque. We don’t do performance reviews.

• Intentional Mastery: 10% of your work week is yours to invest in personal development.

• Team Retreats and Events: We host regular team events to bring everyone together in a fun, exciting way.

• Knowledge Sharing: We host weekly dev chat sessions to talk about new and interesting tools, frameworks etc.

• Home Office Budget: We’ll provide a home office budget to kit out your home office with whatever equipment works for you (a standing desk for example).

Codeo’s Culture

At Codeo, we love learning and solving challenging problems in new ways. We love that technology lets small teams solve big problems. We’re an intentionally small and focused team. Maintaining a startup culture and mindset is important to us.

Our values are excellence, empathy, innovation, ownership, strategy and teamwork.

These are practised through 30 key principles which we refer to as the Codeo Way. At any point in time we are focusing on improving ourselves in one of these areas. Examples of key behaviours are “Listen Generously”, "Master your Tools" or "Check your ego at the door".

Our core value is excellence. We want to ensure that everything we do is aligned to being excellent. From crafting an email, to writing documentation, code, testing or design, we want to ensure that we do an excellent job. Some of our behaviours aligned to this are "Make quality personal" and "Be hungry to be better".

See https://www.codeo.co.za/culture for more information on our values and what’s important to us! We’re very intentional about our team culture.

Application Process

Intro Call - 30 mins

We’ll contact you to set up a Zoom/Meet call to introduce ourselves and find out more about each other.

Technical Assessment - 1-2hrs

This is an online assessment that you can execute in your own time (with Google and all the usual tools available to you). This will form the basis of a technical discussion with our team (see below).

Technical Review - 1-2 hrs

A follow up session with our team where we review the submitted assignment with you and chat through the details and cover other technical questions.

Culture/Team Call - 1hr

A one hour meet and greet with folks you will actually work with. You can expect to have in-depth conversations about building software and what it's like to work at Codeo.

Final Call - 45 mins

The final call will be with the founders of Codeo. The purpose is to chat more about where the company is headed and expectations.