Key skills
Ruby on RailsReactRedisPostgreSQLSQLREST APIsTestingGitAgile developmentRubyAnalyticsRailsHerokuSentryGitHubAgile
About this role
beehiiv is dedicated to providing a superior suite of content creation tools and advanced data analytics. They are seeking a Software Engineer proficient in Ruby to lead high-impact product initiatives and enhance their technology stack.
Responsibilities:
- Becoming proficient with our technology stack
- Routinely shipping meaningful features that increase our users' ability to grow and monetize
- Leading the development of several high-impact product initiatives
- Prioritizing and triaging a backlog of in-demand feature requests and bugs
- Transitioning our tech ecosystem into a more robust and performant version of itself, continuously optimizing for scale
- Documenting your thought processes and development
- Bringing new ideas to work, suggesting creative solutions, and collaborating with others to bring the absolute best product to market
Requirements:
- Experience and desire to work with Ruby on Rails
- Experience and desire to work with React
- Experience and desire to work with Redis
- Experience and desire to work with PostgreSQL
- Experience and desire to work with SQL
- Basic understanding of REST APIs
- Comfortable writing thorough tests and prioritizing QA and related processes
- Competent with git
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- Experience working with an agile development team
- 2+ years of relevant work experience
- Familiarity writing in HAML
- Experience using Heroku, Sentry, Github
- Familiarity with email-specific topics, such as HTML email templating, cross-device management, SMTP, email deliverability, integrating with ESPs, inbox providers, etc
- Keen design eye and a passion for building great user experiences