Full-stack Engineer (Rails, mid-lead) - SF, CO, or remote in US
Job Description
We are looking for driven, curious, self-motivated engineers to join us and grow with us. You’ll join as the second engineer on the team with many opportunities to design new product features, improve code structure and best practices, strengthen development processes, and take on additional ownership and responsibilities.
You should expect to work on all layers of the system, from designing the DB structure, business logic, views, UI, interactions, analytics, AB Tests, internal dashboards & tools, and more. This is a great opportunity to learn more about each of these areas.
We are a small distributed team looking for people who are comfortable balancing several responsibilities.
LOCATION
We are open to fully-remote colleagues in the US, or partially-remote based in the CA Bay Area (eventually meeting up 1-2 times a week based on location), or on site in Boulder, CO (once things open up again)
ABOUT KIMKIM Kimkim helps travelers have unforgettable authentic travel experiences. We do this by connecting independent travelers with local specialists who design personalized itineraries including activities, accommodations, and transportation.
We partner with passionate travel specialists in 90+ destinations around the world who work with top local activity operators, guides, and accommodations. All trips are 100% climate neutral.
Read kimkim traveler reviews on TrustPilot: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/kimkim.com
2020 started as a high growth year for kimkim, and things quickly changed as the world stopped traveling.
For 2021 we are seeing early signs that travel will come back stronger than ever, and we are preparing to be ready when it does. We have a long, focused product roadmap to improve our travel planning tools for both our specialists and travelers.
The kimkim team is currently 9 people, working remotely from a few hubs:
ABOUT THE ENGINEERING & PRODUCT TEAM Kimkim is a marketplace, and the product and engineering teams are building products to help our specialists, travelers, and our internal support team—in essence, 3 distinct products to drive the growth of the overall marketplace.
For example:
We work in a flexible way distributed across multiple time zones, with most communication asynchronous. Daily communication is over Slack and Zoom, and we rely on shared Google Docs, Jira, Figma, and Loom videos to communicate asynchronously.
No specs are 100% final. We encourage and expect everyone on the team to share their perspectives and feel comfortable sharing different viewpoints to help us understand the tradeoffs between certain implementation decisions/designs from a technical perspective.
We break projects into smaller chunks, with each typically taking 0-3 days from start to launch. We have no scheduled releases and push code several times a week or day as projects are ready. We try to design and code for flexibility, as we typically make changes once we see things live and in use.
We are looking for people who communicate clearly, set good expectations, and deliver consistently.
Examples:
ABOUT THE FULL-STACK POSITION This is a growth-focused role: We are looking for people who are looking to grow in their skills and responsibilities to become a leader on the team as we continue to hire more engineers. We are looking for people who are comfortable with changing product roadmaps as we want to stay flexible and adapt to new challenges and opportunities.
TECH STACK, TOOLS, KEY SERVICES Heroku • Rails • Postgres • Bootstrap • Redis • AWS (RDS, S3, CloudFront) SendGrid • Mapbox • Stripe • Twilio Jira • Bitbucket • Figma • Rollbar • Looker • Google Analytics
Have other suggestions, improvements? Great, let us know!
GROWTH GOALS & EXPECTATIONS As a small but lean startup, we have many opportunities to take on ownership and responsibility. As travel comes back in 2021 we expect to re-grow quickly and sustainably.
HIRING PROCESS & EXPECTATIONS
We are looking for people with a well-rounded skill set who are looking to learn and help us grow the team and the company.
Company Description
Kimkim helps travelers have unforgettable authentic travel experiences. We do this by connecting independent travelers with local specialists who design personalized itineraries including activities, accommodations, and transportation. We partner with passionate travel specialists in 90+ destinations around the world who work with top local activity operators, guides, and accommodations. All trips are 100% climate neutral. Read kimkim traveler reviews on TrustPilot: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/kimkim.com