37signals
Junior Rails Programmer
37signals
$146k
Americas or Europe (Remote)
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Python

Junior Rails Programmer

Overview

37signals is hiring a Junior programmer. We're accepting applications until Wednesday, April 23rd at 12:00 PM CST. The salary is $145,849. We're a small team working on Basecamp, HEY and its Calendar, ONCE, and new greenfield products at 37signals.

Job Description

37signals is a company that values beautiful code, making our own tools, and compressing complexity, while working next to incredibly talented people who thrive on craftsmanship and care of code.

Responsibilities

  • - Collaborating with a designer to create a novel way of tracking progress in Basecamp
  • - Building a system to export iCalendar feeds for calendar events
  • - Creating a Ruby library to parse natural expressions into dates
  • - Working with a designer to add more recurrence options to HEY Calendar
  • - Investigating why a HEY screen presents a jumpy scroll when navigating to it
  • - Creating an API for Campfire that customers can use to build their own chatbots
  • - Designing a Ruby gem that brings easy Web Push notification support to Rails

Required Skills

  • - Experience with modern Ruby on Rails or similar languages like Python, PHP, or JavaScript
  • - Experience with Turbo and Stimulus or React
  • - Passionate, curious, bright coders who enjoy diving into new technologies and new concepts
  • - Excellent writer of code and prose
  • - Clear and effective communication skills

Benefits

  • - 31 days off per year, plus another 6-weeks every third year
  • - 32-hour weeks from May 1 - August 31
  • - Profit sharing program after 2 years
  • - Top 10% industry pay based on San Francisco rates
  • - Contractor role with comparable terms for applicants outside the US

About the company

We’re best known for making Basecamp, HEY, and ONCE, writing business and software books (Getting Real, REWORK, REMOTE, It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work, and Shape Up), and inventing the Ruby on Rails framework


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