Job Description

Zipline is 100% remote and accepts applicants from Canada, US & International.

About Us

We are an early stage, well-funded company. We have awesome investors, and great customers including Gap, TOMS, Lush, LEGO, 7-11, Old Navy, Cole Haan, Casper, and many more amazing brands. We believe employees are key to our success so every employee receives an option grant upon start and throughout their career with Zipline.

Our mission is to bring retail operations out of the dark ages and give companies effective tools that their employees love to use.

About You & The Role

Are you passionate about helping retail companies revolutionize the way they do business? Are you looking for a career that allows you to work with the world's best known brands and Fortune 1,000 leaders? Are you looking for an organization that supports work life balance by offering a fully remote work environment with schedule flexiability?

We are looking for a Senior Rails Engineer to join our team as the surface area of our product and infrastructure continue to scale and keep up with rapid customer growth.

What will you do:

• Define and improve useful APIs for our customers
• Architect the ETL process for retail hierarchy data
• Buildiintegration pipelines to exchange data with a wide range of third-party services
• Coordinate with engineering teams at Fortune 500 retailers to support integration efforts
• Enact performance improvements across our stack, particularly at the database level
• Evangelize coding and performance best practices with the rest of the team
• Collaborat with the rest of the team on new features that customers will love

A little bit more about you:

• You have significant relevant production experience with large scale rails applications
• You have great written and verbal communication skills.
• You prefer taking projects from inception to completion and are outcome-oriented.
• You have a strong understanding of systems architecture, database design, and the ruby language.
• You are proactive with communication and have no problem managing your time as a remote employee.
• You are proud of your craft, and enjoy and value clean code that scales to keep large teams productive.
• You're happy to support that work in an on-call capacity (as part of a rotation)

Technologies you'll work with

• Ruby on Rails 6.0
• Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, BigQuery
• Typescript, JavaScript, React, Webpack
• AWS, Heroku, Ansible, Digital Ocean
• SAML SSO, GraphQL, REST, and possibly the occasional third-party SOAP API
• Zoom, Slack, Basecamp, Google Drive, Intercom

What's In It for You:

• Remote: Join an effective remote team and work where you're comfortable.
• Stock: Ownership in a fast-growing company.
• Time Off: Flexible vacation policy to encourage people to get out and see the world.
• Benefits: Healthcare, Vision and Dental program
• Goodies: Whatever hardware and software you need to get the job done.
• Team Fun: Company off-sites in fun locations. We've done New York, Costa Rica, Whistler, and Palm Springs.
• Learning: Sponsorship of meetup and conference attendance.
• Great team: Working with fun, hard working, nice people who are committed to making a difference!

We value diversity of all kinds, and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. We pride ourselves at having a female CEO and 50% female leadership team!