Senior Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

Posted 15 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in Austin, TX
Remote
Hybrid
185K-185K Annually
5-7 Years Experience
eCommerce • Legal Tech • Professional Services • Software • Data Privacy
Fighting hubris, mission statement hypocrisy, and a tendency to overcomplicate things. We try to do good work each day.
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer at Two Barrels, you will lead large projects, collaborate with a diverse team, and contribute to the design and maintenance of high-performance software solutions. Responsibilities include architecture design, project breakdown, and providing guidance to junior programmers, all while fostering a respectful and growth-oriented work environment.
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Overview:
Two Barrels is hiring Senior Software Engineers specializing in Ruby on Rails for up to $185,000/year. You will be a traditional company employee. This is a full time 40 hour/week position with company benefits. This is a remote position. Our main office is in Spokane WA, and we have satellite offices in Austin TX and Salt Lake City UT.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be given large projects and be expected to break these projects into medium-sized tasks for our Software Engineers, all while maintaining focus on the big picture goals and projects. You will have the opportunity to make a direct impact on architecture design. You'll get to work with a team of engineers who like to do things the right way versus plowing through just to meet a goal. We have no investors or micro-managed goals. We just want to make high-end software that is easy to continually improve.
You can expect a diverse team with different backgrounds, experience and identities. You will have current members of the team eager to help you get up to speed as quickly as possible. Solid fundamentals with software, teamwork, systems, and troubleshooting will pave the way.
What's in a title?
Here at Two Barrels we don't take titles very seriously. We know for recruiting purposes we need to call our jobs something, so we started with labeling and differentiating them in a fairly traditional way with "junior, mid, senior". However, we've realized that was putting our employees in a box and wasn't allowing us to uniquely identify their individual contributions, strengths and professional goals. Once you join our team the titles kinda get dropped as we expect everyone to work with everyone regardless of title or experience. We have taken the approach of evaluating candidates and employees on a "level" basis. It makes it a little easier internally to talk about growing into the next level without there being this huge chasm between what it means to be a Junior Engineer vs. a Mid Engineer. Our levels have expectations set for each one and it's the responsibility of the manager and employee to make sure there is alignment. We do this through quarterly conversations where we discuss employee progression, if the work is challenging, and to ensure they feel fairly compensated for their work and expertise. Basically, levels gives us more flexibility to help people grow in their careers. But sure, you can post your title on LinkedIn as what makes sense to the rest of the world.
Location:
Remote | Spokane - Austin - SLC |
Duration:
Full Time
Wage:
Up to $185,000/year
Responsibilities:

  • Be a good human
  • Treat your co-workers with respect
  • Have a Growth Mindset, not a Fixed Mindset
  • Remember that it's a marathon, not a sprint. Help us bring calm to what can creep into a rush
  • Design, implement, document, and maintain front and back end systems for high-traffic applications
  • Help peel off monolith code into well-organized architecture
  • Help drive technical standards for the team
  • Design and implement novel systems from scratch, from billing to all kinds of crazy ideas we come up with
  • Help us set a high bar for quality, from code and systems to how we treat each other
  • Take substantial features from concept to shipping
  • Provide material feedback on the work of junior and mid-level programmers
  • Monitor and ensure automated processes run as expected
  • Perform routine automation assignments with minimum supervision
  • Communicate consistently with stakeholders, managers, and other teams about releases
  • Participate in the training or development of others, as directed
  • Be willing to learn, grow, and help all of us continually get better at what we do


Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or other equivalent degree/experience
  • Minimum of 6 years full stack application development, software test automation experience, and object oriented development
  • 4+ years working with back-end frameworks such as Rails, Laravel, Django, etc.
  • 4+ years working front-end frameworks such as Vue, Angular, React, etc.
  • 2+ years working with relational databases and writing SQL queries or stored procedures
  • Advanced level of querying in ORMs such as ActiveRecord and Sequel
  • Experience mentoring junior to mid-level engineers while balancing current work
  • High proficiency in some of the following AWS services: ECS, EC2, S3, CloudWatch, RDS, ElasticSearch, VPC
  • Proficient in vanilla JavaScript (outside of using it with a modern web framework)


Preferred Qualifications:

  • High level of ability coding in Ruby and expert level familiarity with the Rails framework
  • Experience with large Rails/Rack- based applications


Why you might like this job:
You've been building large rails apps for other companies. The ones with carrots dangling in front of you, hipster benefits and slippery ladders. You've always wondered if there's a place where profits and titles aren't everyone's motivation. Where people just want you to make great software. You like the idea of working for a locally-owned and operated company that competes in an extremely competitive space nationwide. You like that your work matters today and will affect millions of our business customers.
You like the idea that you could find a place like this in Spokane, where we have 4 seasons. Where you can buy a great house for a great price with no epic commute. You like that there are 5 ski hills within 2 hours and endless outdoor activities. You don't like bugs or humidity or a million people living in your city.
You love to code, but you want to take part in the planning without being required to deal with stakeholders and project managers all day. You want to make cool stuff. You want your cool stuff to be really good. But most importantly, if you made a dish of noodles and butter for someone and asked them what they thought of it, if they said it was okay or good and didn't give you feedback, you'd feel a little left out... you'd want a little more... because okay or good isn't fulfilling to you.
But at the same time... it's just a job. Yourself/Family/Friends/Personal Time is number 1. Work is number 2 or 3. Our goal is to use the incredible business we are excited to be a part of to support all of our personal time. We all want to live a full personal life. We'll have more fun working together during the day if we know there's a clear cutoff. This way, we can create a work environment where we can not only go home at the end of the day, but mentally shut off work and mentally go home also. We focus on creating a welcoming, supportive job environment that pays well and doesn't stress you out, so when you call it a day, you go have fun personally.
#BI-Remote
Benefits:

  • Great Wage & Success Meetings with your manager
  • Work From Home comfort package & company provided equipment
  • 22 days paid time off annually, PLUS 4 paid holidays
  • 4% 401k employer matching through Fidelity
  • 100% employer-paid medical, dental and vision for employees
  • Maternity and Paternity Leave
  • Flexible hours
  • Coffee shop next door
  • Crappy parking? Oh, I mean a cool downtown location for easy public transportation options...

Top Skills

Ruby

What the Team is Saying

Jason
Joshua Stubb
Josh Groeschl
The Company
Austin, TX
800 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

Two Barrels is a Professional Services as a Product Company. ( A PSAAP - Duh! ) We run our company via product life cycles. We use tech to make amazing products and invest heavily in humans to help our clients with their business services needs.

Two Barrels is family-owned and operated, employs over 650 good humans across the nation, and services over 3 million active businesses nationwide. As we've grown, we've maintained a 95% employee retention rate. We have no debt, no investors, no venture capital, and no private equity.

What does it mean to be family-owned and operated?

Well, it's not perfect. But growth, profits, KPIs, endless investor meetings, warrants, options pools, vesting, or manipulating employees to be indentured servants in exchange for paper shares that won't make you rich, aren't things we have to deal with here.

We try to do good work and see where it goes. That's our actual mission statement. We try to make our customers and our employees happy. We get to focus on that versus making investors happy. We are well aware of competing with startups, and VC and PE-funded, or worse yet, public companies' total compensation packages, so we bring it up. We are different. Our packages include an excellent salary and 401K to buy stock wherever you want. We try to make our overall benefits better each year as we grow. We offer tough challenges—focusing on the journey as the reward, not the finish line. We try to hire people we enjoy being around.

We're not a platform or an AI cool guy place. We're not software as a service/whatever is the cool thing that gives investors a reason to ask for a higher multiple on their next round of stock dilution. Whoops, I mean, investment for the future.

We make business entity compliance tools. We power over 50,000 Professional Services that do registered agent service, corporate filings, VoIP phones, credit card processing, and various tech products. Here's a few examples of industry leaders riding on our backbone:

https://www.northwestregisteredagent.com/service-signup
https://www.registeredagentsinc.com/solutions/

We made a CRM system but focused on a whole stack of solutions for our business services customers and now we're pretty busy and could use your help. Thanks for looking!

Why Work With Us

A mid sized company servicing millions of clients, employing hundreds, but being family owned and operated with no debt, investors, VC, or PE in the tech space is unique. We offer stability, flexibility, and an opportunity to make a high impact almost immediately. We don't sell data to third parties. We're extremely open source and privacy focused.

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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

As a hybrid employer we have full-time remote employees and employees that live near our offices who have the option to work in-office or from home. There are just a few, select roles that specify and require some in-office time.

Typical time on-site: Flexible
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