Senior Full Stack Engineer
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