Senior Full Stack Engineer

About Forem

Forem is a company committed to empowering community. We operate DEV, CodeNewbie, and our underlying platform, Forem.

Why Join us:

• Massive Market: Social networking and online community continues to be one of the biggest possible markets. Forem has the potential to be an Internet scale business.
• Demonstrated Traction: The Forem community, DEV, has over 800,000 registered members and reaches more developers each month than Hacker News.
• Platform Business Model: Forem allows anyone to stand up their own independent social network. We align our business aspirations with the success of our community leaders.
• Creator Driven: Forem allows creators to build more deep and meaningful connections to their audience, a trend that is booming with Substack, Patreon, TikTok/Instagram influencers, and beyond.
• Enterprise Interest and Access: Over 3,000 organizations like Stripe, Shopify, Twilio, Heroku, Google Cloud, etc. have organically joined DEV. Though the company is early in its Go-to-Market motion, we have direct access to our target customers via DEV, and have already signed deals with New Relic, Snyk, and the Interledger Foundation.
• Compelling Open-Source Platform Model: A strong contributing community of ~600 developers and 17k+ GitHub stars.
• Strong Company Mission: To create inclusive communities and empower an independent, human-centered web.

We are a remote-first team and have no physical office. We have team members all across the world, in a wide span of time zones. We prioritize asynchronous productivity and have just one full-team required meeting per week. Our work culture relies on trust and the ability to work independently, though we also collaborate in real-time when a situation calls for that level of coordination. We value emotional intelligence, learning, and growth, and are excited to identify diverse and well-rounded candidates who share our passion and priorities.

We understand that many companies have an uncommunicative and time intensive application processes. At Forem, we strive for transparency. Our hiring process starts with a questionnaire and is followed by 1-3 rounds of panel interviews. We strive to get back to candidates within 2 weeks of each step of the process.

The Position

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer with strong front-end experience while working in Ruby on Rails. This engineer will have the opportunity to work closely with members on the team and tackle a wide variety of technical obstacles throughout the stack. This candidate will need to take into consideration performance, accessibility, and user experience to ensure that we are providing a cutting-edge community building experience for creators and users alike. The starting salary range for this role is $145,000 - $157,000 plus equity and is not location-based.

In this role, you'll be accountable for:

• Build thoughtful, accessible UI and components that by contributing to our component library
• Design and expand the capabilities of our API (built with Ruby on Rails), and design and expand the capabilities of our web frontend, built in JavaScript and Preact
• Work closely and collaboratively within a cross functional team that includes Product, Design, Engineering, as well as other stakeholders, like our Community team
• Identify areas for growth and iteration on our application stack and advocate for them on the Engineering roadmap
• Triage, debug, and fix bugs reported by users
• Participate in code reviews, design and implementation conversations, and post-incident reviews

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience with Javascript including vanilla javascript, and Preact (or React)
• At least 1 year of experience with Ruby on Rails
• Knowledge of relational databases. Postgres experience is a plus
• Experience writing high-quality, maintainable, readable code, with a focus on performance and accessibility
• Experience with a range of frontend testing tools, ideally including component-level, End to End, and accessibility testing. Experience with Cypress is a plus
• Experience working in an asynchronous, distributed team
• Able to work proactively as part of a team with strong communication experience
• Thrives in a start-up environment
• Interest or experience in open source software and/or the open source community

Our Hiring Process

We want our candidates to have the best possible interview experience because this is as much about you finding the right fit as it is us finding a great new addition to the team. We value candidates from all backgrounds and experiences and want our interview process to be representative of that. Here is what you can expect:

1. Application review
2. Round 1: Hiring manager interview (60 mins)
3. Round 2: A short take-home exercise that is meant to mimic real-life work (90 mins, self-timed)
4. Round 3: Team interview covering your technical experience and your soft skills in technical leadership (90 mins)
5. Round 4: Co-founder interview intended to cover your skills in collaboration and communication, as well as to provide a final opportunity for you to ask any lingering questions about the company strategy and progress (45 mins)

Benefits

Work/life balance and ensuring that folks have what they need for working and for life is incredibly important to us. Below are some of the benefits we offer:

• Unlimited PTO with a minimum requirement
• Generous employee equity
• A remote-first, fully-distributed team that encourages schedule flexibility
• A monthly wellness stipend to keep you at your peak
• Free mental health services
• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage (U.S. only)
• An annual professional development budget to keep you learning and growing
• Office setup budget to make sure you have everything you need to work effectively wherever you are
• 401K (U.S. Only)