About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced and talented Senior Rails developer to join our team. This role will focus on building features and functionality to help the millions of independent business that use our platform. As a small team we often wear multiple hats and you’ll have the opportunity to collaborate during early phases of our process, helping shape the work of the team and influencing outcomes for users.

About Big Cartel

Since its inception in 2005, Big Cartel has helped shape the world of e-commerce, assisting sellers across the globe to earn over $3.5 billion from selling their unique creations. We're 100% independent, bootstrapped, tight-knit team dedicated to our mission of aiding individuals and small brands in setting up shop and making a living doing what they love. Our team is driven to make Big Cartel an amazing place to work and to help the independent businesses that rely on us thrive.

We not only embrace and celebrate the diversity of our customer base but also strive to mirror this in our team. At Big Cartel, we guarantee equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are committed to fostering an environment where everyone can contribute.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with a cross functional team to build and deploy new platform features.
• Write well structured code and accompanying automated tests to meet business objectives.
• Contribute to internal tooling to improve developer experience.
• “Tend the garden” by proactively fixing bugs and performance problems before users report them.
• Help debug and resolve occasional production issues.
• Write internal and external facing documentation.
• Attend and participate in in-person events ~2 times/year.

Our Stack

Well qualified candidates will be very comfortable jumping in and contributing at a high level from day 1. You don’t have to have years of experience with every item on this list but should have deep experience with at least a few pieces (ie really strong Rails & Docker or super accomplished frontend) and be eager to level up with others.

• Rails, Rspec
• GraphQL (as well as various past iterations of Rest APIs)
• Typescript
• Stencil
• Docker, Kubernetes