Overview

Rainforest QA is an on-demand QA solution. It’s our mission to enable development teams to deliver bug-free software while moving at the speed off continuous delivery. We are truly a global team, allowing us to bring together the best and most diverse talent. Our commitment to the distributed team model and to our company values has earned us multiple culture and workplace awards and helped us build a diverse team of individuals working toward the same goal: change the way QA is done.

Learn more about Rainforest QA by visiting our LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Instagram, and Facebook pages.

Senior Engineer (Backend)

As a Senior Engineer at Rainforest QA you’ll be part of an experienced and diverse team with members all over the world.

We were built as a distributed team from the beginning and we’ve committed to implementing tools and processes that allow for and support continuous and effective communication across the world.

What you’ll do

  • Work on our main app, which contains the majority of our business logic and is written in Ruby-on-Rails and backed by PostgreSQL and Redis
  • Work on numerous support services (including our work scheduler and VM management system – both of which manage hundreds of thousands of requests a day) written in a variety of languages (Elixir, Golang, Crystal, Node) chosen because of their suitability to the problem the service is solving
  • Work on internal tooling to improve the development experience of other engineers and ship faster and safer
  • Collaborate with product managers and our customer facing teams to analyze customer problems and design high impact features
  • Lead projects to implement those features
  • Help other team members to achieve their goals
  • Continuously learn about new technologies and ways to solve problems
  • Work with our customer facing teams to triage, troubleshoot, and fix bugs
  • Write unit and integration tests (using our own product!) to ship high quality software

What we’re looking for

  • Extensive experience in Ruby (or equivalent dynamic language) and be extremely knowledgeable of the language and associated ecosystem
  • Extensive experience in Ruby on Rails (or equivalent framework) and be extremely knowledgeable of the framework and associated ecosystem
  • Experience in writing and debugging SQL
  • Enthusiasm for building applications using tools like Ruby on Rails, Golang, Elixir, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, BigQuery, and Kubernetes – amongst others
  • Even though this position is mainly backend focused, we expect you to have some grasp of the whole stack to be able to effectively communicate with engineers across the team, and can make frontend or infrastructure changes when the situation calls for it
  • Professional experience in engineering SaaS products
  • Experience leading projects with teams
  • An ownership mindset: you should look not only at what you’re asked to do, but ask why you’re doing it and how it impacts on the rest of the product, our customers, and whether it makes sense. We expect you to be responsible for your work and to resolve any bugs you might ship
  • Excitement to learn
  • Excellent communication skills and able to give and receive constructive feedback
  • Happy to review code and have your code reviewed
  • Can work effectively remotely with remote team members (we are a fully distributed company)
  • Comfortable working in a large codebase with many stakeholders

Identify with our company values

  • No BS, No Ego: We are radically candid with each other in every interaction. This means a lack of politics, a lack of showboating, a lack of BS. This also means brevity, clarity of thought, and clarity of communication. We give and take feedback without ego, with the knowledge that we all are operating with good intent. No ego is the check system to balance no BS and keep it kind. No ad-hominem attacks.
  • 1% better every day: Continuous improvement is what motivates us. We design our product, our organization and our careers to be continually improving. Mistakes are only bad if they are repeated. Experiments are only wasted if they are not learned from.
  • Own the journey: We are all owners. We demand that of each other. The journey we own is threefold: our customers’ journey, our company’s journey and our personal journey. Our reason for existence is to nail our customer journey, so that we can scale our company’s success.

How we’ll reward you

  • Flexible, remote work options
  • Generous vacation time
  • Competitive compensation and stock options
  • Professional development, career coaching, and conference attendance
  • 3 offsites per year: every ~4 months we arrange an offsite for the whole company to get together so we can get to know our colleagues better and understand what we need to do. The location is ever changing, so you will get to see some new places!

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION

At Rainforest QA we believe that diverse teams improve our business. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.