Sarah MeiMay 2, 2023
Hello friends! If you want to join a small, startup-y development team 🚀, have a material impact on a profitable, growing business 🔥, and work for me 😅, please read on! 🧵
Show threadSarah MeiMay 2, 2023

I’m currently hiring a Staff-level software developer for my team at BackerKit. I’d be delighted to talk about it with you or anyone you know who might be a fit.

I’m looking for someone who has:

- Deep experience in Ruby and Rails
- A history of pair programming - and is excited to use it every day to teach & learn
- Expertise in automated testing and test driven development

Here’s the full listing: https://jobs.lever.co/backerkit/04342de5-5a39-4e56-938c-54198b21f059?lever-source=careers-page

BackerKit - Staff Software Developer

BackerKit enables thousands of creators worldwide to focus on doing what they love. For over a decade, our software has been the premier platform for crowdfunding backer management. And last year, we launched our own crowdfunding platform, making us for the first time a true one-stop shop! All of our offerings have a single goal: to empower crowdfunding creators to manage their creative endeavors with confidence. We’re a profitable, self-funded start-up of around 50 people with a diverse, close-knit team that prizes creativity, enthusiasm, and a willingness to learn. We have a small-yet-effective US-distributed engineering team. We are looking for a Staff level software developer (an individual contributor) to take us to the next level. Perhaps that is you! Our tech stack BackerKit is a Ruby on Rails “majestic monolith” deployed on Heroku. The codebase has been around since 2012, so it has seen some things. Despite that, it is generally well-factored and well-tested - we’ve been

Show threadmileszs
@sarahmei How do you feel about folks who have been Head of Engineering at startups (running monolithic Rails codebases) the past 5 years wanting to get back into an IC role?
May 3, 2023 at 9:15pmWeb
Show threadSarah MeiMay 3, 2023
@mileszs 👍🏻
Show threadmileszsMay 4, 2023
@sarahmei Applied! Thank you! Hopefully I make the cut for an initial conversation, but, if not, I’ll obviously remain a BackerKit fan. I mean, look at these stickers!