Ruby on Rails Software Developer, Riipen
$120-165k
Experiential learning platform and marketplace
Be an early applicant
Experiential learning platform and marketplace
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$120-165k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help students of all backgrounds and geographies boost their skills, gain career clarity, network with potential employers, and find jobs they love.
Role
Who you are
- You might be a great fit if you have experience in Ruby on Rails, have shipped high-quality web apps with real customers in the past, love to take ownership of your code, and be empowered to make decisions and help steer the codebase towards quality
- Have 2+ years developing Ruby on Rails applications
- Have experience in standard Rails ecosystem libraries such as RSpec, Simple Form, CanCanCan, Capybara, FactoryBot, etc, or any equivalent libraries
- Have experience with PostgreSQL or other databases
- Have experience with CSS and JS libraries such as TailwindCSS, TurboJS, StimulusJS, ReactJS, or equivalent libraries
- Understand the importance of quality over quantity in software
- Enjoy working in small, remote teams
- Have the ability to prioritize and self-manage (key skills when working remotely!)
- Have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- A degree or certificate in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Software Development, or a related field is helpful, but equivalent experience is just as valuable
- We ask that if you feel like you don’t check all the boxes but have the potential to learn what you don’t know, that you still apply! We believe that diverse teams are high-performing teams and we strive to employ individuals with a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives
Desirable
- AWS or other cloud providers
- Hotwire Native or similar frameworks
- Mobile development
- Database performance tuning and query optimization
- AI tools that assist with software development workflows
- OpenSearch or Elasticsearch clusters
- Maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
What the job involves
- Riipen is looking for a Ruby on Rails Software Developer to join our remote Engineering team
- You will be involved in working with a highly effective and remote team, working on the Riipen platform and all of its services. This includes but is not limited to:
- Writing efficient and maintainable code
- Creating effective data models and database structures
- Conduct and help with code reviews
- Bringing in ideas to continually improve our tech stack and code quality
- Write efficient and maintainable code
- Create effective data models and database structures
- Build performant API’s to support our whole suite of periphery applications and integrations
- Make use of Ruby, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and other web-related programming languages and frameworks
- Work with designers and product managers to create a robust user experience
- Work within a team to deliver high quality, tested code
Our take
It’s a problem many graduates are painfully familiar with: you need experience to get a job, but you can’t land a job without experience. Riipen is a company helping to tackle this issue. Their platform offers post-secondary institutions the ability to connect their students to real-world problems and training, and to companies in search of new talent.
The company have helped over 100,000 students engage in applied learning, which historically might only have been accessed through an internship - typically freezing out students without the connections or resources to land one. So Riipen’s addressing inequality of opportunity in the post-secondary demographic, alongside streamlining the work of companies in sourcing talent.
With the economy still in recovery, and traditional ‘first job’ positions in certain industries curtailed, there’s an urgent need to reimagine what stepping onto the career ladder looks like. Riipen’s solution has been refined over the past several years, and is now well set to take advantage of this opportunity.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2021
$1.5m
LATE VC
Dec 2019
$3.8m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $6m
Company benefits
- Enhanced health & dental benefits
- Generous time off
- Choose your work environment
- Paid parental leave
- Paid learning opportunities
Company HQ
Downtown Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
Leadership
Dave Savory
(Co-Founder & VP of Experiential Learning)Previously a Franchise Manager at College Pro Painters, before moving on to work in Sales and Business Development at Travergence Interactive, and then Softree Technical Systems.
Dana Stephenson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously held various managerial roles in recruitment, marketing, and business at The Acquisition Group Enterprises, Advanced Air Supply, and The Moore Law Group. Subsequently worked as a sales rep at Beldon Home Solutions.
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