Overview

Upworthy is looking for a Senior Rails Developer to assist our small but mighty engineering team build user-facing features and critical infrastructure for our public site and CMS. This is a 3-month contract position on an entirely remote team.

Is This a Good Fit?

You’re a mid- or senior-level Rails and JS developer with experience on more than one flavor of database. You’ve jumped into legacy codebases before and know how to seek out context for unfamiliar code. You’re adept at collaborating with PMs, stakeholders, and your teammates but you can handle a mid-sized feature (or larger!) with limited guidance. You love writing maintainable, well-tested code.

In short: you’re ready to hit the ground running.

Requirements

  • You have at least 3-4 years Rails and JS experience.
  • You’ve worked with at least two of these in a production setting: Mongo, Redis, and PostGRES.
  • You’re happy to write Ruby one week, JS the next, and help debug a remote API call after that.
  • You’re a strong, clear communicator. We’re a virtual office and the ability to express yourself in writing is essential.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Familiarity with React, Webpack, and ES6.
  • Prior success working in a distributed environment.
  • Interest in our mission. We love what the company does as well as our own work, and we hope you do too.
  • Leadership or mentoring experience: our developers cover the gamut from recently junior to very senior. The ideal candidate likes to teach as much as they love to learn.

We’re Deep Believers in Equal Opportunity

At Upworthy, we believe that the diversity of ideas, experiences, and cultures that our employees contribute to our company is our greatest advantage, and we are proud to be an inclusive and equal-opportunity workplace where all applicants and employees are considered for hire, promotion, and job status without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, or physical handicap.

Start Date

March 20, 2017.

About Upworthy

Upworthy is on a mission to tell stories that bring people together — because we’re all part of the same story.

The internet was supposed to open doors to new ideas. But too often it narrows our world instead of broadening it. And fills it with empty stories that drown out the ones that matter most.

But sometimes a story opens a door to a new and better world. It might make you feel surprised, happy, inspired, motivated, even sad. These stories connect us with each other. They are rocket fuel for empathy. They change our hearts, our minds and sometimes even, the world.

Upworthy tells those stories, and helps them reach millions every day. Stories that are worth your time — and that make the world a better place.

The company was founded by Eli Pariser, of MoveOn, and Peter Koechley, of The Onion. The staff includes veterans from The New York Times, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Thompson Reuters, and Discovery to name a few.

The staff is distributed and works across the country. Work from home, from a coffee shop, from a coworking space — anywhere with good enough Internet to do a Google Hangout. Go move to Montana for a month and work from there if you want. (And if you already live in Montana, keep on living there!) There are no remote workers here; we’re all part of a distributed team.