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Founded in 2007, Quimbee is one of the most widely used and respected study aids for law students. With a massive and growing library of case briefs, video lessons, definitions, and practice questions, Quimbee helps its members achieve academic success in law school. Quimbee can be accessed on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.\n\n**This position is 100% remote**. All you need is an internet connection and a quiet place to work.\n\nQuimbee's tech team works on an agile process and has a great mix of seasoned web backend, frontend, and mobile developers. Quimbee's web and API platform is based on a monolithic Ruby on Rails application, and we make the effort to keep it updated to recent dependencies' versions. We're big believers on automated tests, and while we don't necessarily do test-first, CodeClimate rates both our maintenance and code coverage metrics with an A.\nThis position is to work primarily on our web platform with an emphasis on our frontend code (views, HTML, CSS, JS) but also helping on backend work (controllers, models, serializers, query optimization, etc) whenever that's needed, so we're looking for someone with a passion for frontend but who's no stranger to backend code.\n\n\n# Responsibilities\n
โข Design and write maintainable code following best practices, knowing that most of the time, good enough is better than perfect.\nโข Help maintain and improve our frontend code, currently based on Slim, SCSS, Bootstrap, and plain JS with a mix of some jQuery. We're pushing to adopt RSJS on the JS front.\nโข Help maintain and improve our backend code, including writing new features and adapting existing ones collaborating with our backend developers. We use Ruby on Rails.\nโข Collaborate with teammates, the project manager, product, design, and QA teams during the whole SDLC, providing technical points of view, effort estimates, drafting or reviewing requirements, etc.\nโข Take ownership of assigned projects and be responsible for communicating progress on a regular basis.\nโข Participate in scheduled planning, review, and retrospective meetings on a regular basis (via videoconferencing technology).\n \n\n# Requirements\nโข B.S. computer science or related field\nโข 5+ years of Javascript experience\nโข 2+ years of Ruby on Rails experience\nโข Excellent HTML & CSS experience (cross-browser compatibility, responsive media queries, flex, grid, etc.)\nโข Advanced knowledge of the Javascript ecosystem (yarn, webpack, babel, etc)\nโข Good understanding of SQL\nโข Extensive Git (or similar) experience solving complex merging conflicts\nโข Know how the web works under the hood: TCP, HTTP, DNS, IP, caches, etc.\nโข Solid knowledge of OOP, software architecture, and design patterns\nโข A deep understanding of the importance of building maintainable, efficient, clean code, while balancing that with the urgency of the business needs\nโข Deep caring about uptime, performance, and reliability\nโข The will to take responsibility for projects end-to-end from idea to completion\nโข Fluency in English\n \n\nPlease mention the words **SHADOW BROKEN NAIVE** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMy4xNDUuMTY2Ljc=). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n
No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to JavaScript, Ruby, Senior, Full Stack, Developer, Digital Nomad, Video, API, Mobile and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n
$62,500 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Location\nWorldwide