BackerKit - Staff Software Developer (copy)
Requirements
• Technical, craft, and process • Deep experience building high-quality user interfaces, and recent hands-on coding • Strong fundamentals in HTML, CSS, JS, and browser behavior • Comfort working directly in Rails views, helpers, and partials • Experience with or strong interest in Hotwire / Turbo / Stimulus • Preference for simple, maintainable systems over unnecessary abstraction • Values pairing, and genuine interest in exploring what that looks like in this new AI-enabled world (bonus if you’ve worked in a 100% pairing environment) • Product & UX thinking • Strong product and interaction design instincts • Experience simplifying complex workflows • Ability to work effectively with ambiguity • Staff-level impact • Experience shaping engineering patterns and conventions • Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills • Act as a go-to partner for complex or ambiguous frontend and UX challenges • Ability to zoom out to systems (architecture and business-level) thinking while remaining comfortable bushwhacking in the weeds • Comfort making your case on priorities, then committing to the decision once it’s made. • Most successful candidates for this role have 10+ years of software development experience working on multiple complex software projects over time and 5+ years as a staff engineer, though we do not have a strict years-of-experience requirement. • This role is a great fit if you • Have deep knowledge of Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript • Care deeply about how software feels to use • Enjoy working across product, design, and backend concerns • Prefer cohesive Rails applications over fragmented frontend stacks or SPAs • Treat constraints as a creative tool • Care about creators getting to make a living doing what they love • This role is likely not a fit if you • Prefer working in React, Vue, or SPA-heavy environments • Prefer fully decoupled frontend/backend architectures • Prefer long periods of solo or heads-down work • Prefer to set your own priorities rather than work from a shared team queue • Are looking for a part-time or contract role
Responsibilities
• Build alongside engineers, PMs, and designers in pairs, trios and solo, working on the most impactful features as we innovate the crowdfunding landscape • Lead frontend architecture, evolving patterns incrementally from real, repeated cases • Co-own features end to end, translating product and design intent into elegant, maintainable UI and following up on usage after launch • Simplify complex workflows and improve usability, responsiveness, and performance • Mentor engineers and set the bar for code quality through review, holding AI-generated code to a high standard • Report to our Director and join their engineering leadership group, alongside our other Staff Engineer and our CEO (a founding engineer who still codes daily), to advise on priorities and shape technical direction. • Carry your share of team rotations, including on-call, PR review, and meeting host, and take actual breaks and vacations, with no off-hours or weekend work required beyond your on-call shifts
Benefits
• Full-time, salaried, remote-first position on a distributed team • Competitive salary and stock option plan • Medical, dental, vision, and 401k benefits (with employer match!) • Stipends for supporting creators of your choosing • Annual Learning and Development stipend to support your professional growth • Family-friendly and focused on maintaining a healthy work/life balance • Awesome work environment at a company with a huge opportunity • $184,000 - $235,000 a year • The base salary for this role is targeted at $184,000-$204,000/year for Denver and most remote locations, and $211,000-$235,000/year for San Francisco, Seattle, and New York City. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed above and are determined by various factors including but not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and geographic location. • Research shows that while men apply for jobs when they meet ~60% of the criteria, women and other underrepresented groups tend to only apply when they check every box. If this role excites you – even if you don’t meet every requirement – we’d love to hear from you. • Our team may use artificial intelligence (AI) and/or transcription tools to support parts of the hiring process. These tools may be used to assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Every application is reviewed by our team and all hiring decisions are made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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