Lead Ruby on Rails Software Engineer – Product Engineering
About The Role
We are looking for new colleagues who are strong Lead engineer level individual contributors
You’ll contribute to successful and growing products such as Prime (our premium staking dashboard), our internal tool command center, our our API platform for universal staking
We also have several new greenfield opportunities that you could be instrumental in getting off the ground, and making into a core offering in the product lineup
About You
- You’re at a Lead engineer or higher level in your current position
If you don’t meet all of the requirements but are at one of these career levels – you should still apply! - You are currently the lead engineer on an existing team of >3 developers
- We do not expect you to be a blockchain expert
Some familiarity is definitely a bonus, but we will help you get up to speed where needed
You’ll only be limited by how much you want to learn about Web3 technologies
- You are currently located within the North American PST ↔ EST time zones
- You routinely make technical decisions and are able to explain them to the others on the team and achieve buy-in on your proposal
- You have a strong Rails background and track record of successful Rails projects
- You consider yourself a full-stack developer, with deep knowledge in certain specialties
- You take a craftperson’s approach to your work
- You routinely architect your own solutions for significant problems, factoring in maintenance, scalability and security concerns to your solution approach
- You have owned complete features end-to-end – conception, breakdown, implementation, deployment
- You are able to learn new technologies quickly and enjoy learning new things
- You have a pragmatic outlook and work to resist bike-shedding on aspects that won’t alter the needle much
You strive for simplicity and maintainability
- You have an appreciation for good written communication, and are fluent in both written and spoken English
Your Responsibilities as a Lead Software Engineer
- Full technical ownership of key features and core systems
- Drive technical specification design, technical roadmap, and implementation of the product
- Work closely with Product managers to negotiate plans design solutions and set expectations
- Work closely with our Security team to deliver the most secure software solutions we can
- Collaborate with cross-functional team members on all aspects of product development
- Produce clean, performant, and well-tested Rails code
- Uphold team standards for code quality and reuse
- Actively identify areas of improvement and design and execute plans to move those areas forward
- Excellent understanding and execution of RSpec across a codebase
- Write feature specs and review teammate PRs
- Mentor junior developers on Rails development
About The Work You Could Be Doing
- Designing and implementing new customer facing features on one of our existing product lineup
- Getting new greenfield product opportunities up and running from scratch
- Adding additional agents to our internal agent-based workflow system
- Expanding the capabilities of our staking & un-staking API product
- Enhancing our internal command & control plane to reduce toil required for daily operations
Working at Figment
Figment is a remote-first, globally distributed company
Our culture is centered around honesty, professionalism and risk-taking in a high-growth environment
For this role we are focusing primarily on hiring people in the North American PST ↔ EST time zones
There are no core hours and teammates are trusted to focus on results and team velocity
If you’re just outside those time zones, and are willing to make yourself available for a minimum overlap of 3hrs of between 9am-5pm with the PST time zone, and in general making yourself reasonably available for team coordination, we welcome you to apply!
You’ll be working in a lightweight Agile environment, with support from your Engineering Manager and Product Managers, with massive opportunities for autonomy and growth
Figment fully expects to hire the best talent for a job, and let them have full autonomy and trust in being able to do that job to the best of their abilities with minimal management oversight
We also expect teammates to be able to help shape the team culture and working practices
Your career development and professional growth is also a key cornerstone of how we grow people and invest in them, and you can expect active coaching and help on those aspects
The Product Engineering Interview Process
Tech interviewing really sucks
We know
That’s why we try to go above and beyond on making sure that you have the best possible experience with us
We want you to have a great experience with us during the interview process
- As we go through the interview process, we work to make sure you hear back from us in a timely fashion
If we decide there’s not such a good fit at some point, we’ll try to give you feedback on why we’re not going forward
- Interview calls are not planned to go longer than 1hr
But, sometimes you’ll get in a good conversation and you both may agree to keep talking
- We strive for the entire process to take around 2-3 weeks from initial screen to offer
There can be exceptions on either side of the bell curve here, but as a rule that’s the time-frame you should expect
- Here’s the interview process:
- Screening call with Technical Recruiter
- Interview with Hiring Manager for a specific team or set of teams
- Very short technical take home test
These tests are designed to be fairly easy and quick to do, with the scope for you to really showcase your skills for the level you’re applying for
- Interview with member of the team you’ll be potentially joining, going over your take home test and asking further questions that probe your knowledge
- If all is well, you can an expect an offer at this stage
If it’s not clear-cut that we should make an offer we might add an additional interview here
- Screening call with Technical Recruiter