Senior Full Stack Engineer

The Job

As a Full Stack Engineer, you’ll be working with the product team focusing on building, releasing, and testing new product features. Additionally, we’re always looking for ways to improve our codebase to make it more performant and easier to maintain.

Currently, our entire platform is built as a majestic Rails monolith, using Vue.js with Typescript on the front-end.

More details about our tech stack:

Testing is done with RSpec & CapybaraContinuous integration and deployment are done with CircleCIMySQL and PostgreSQL for our main databasesScyllaDB for our activity feedsRedis for session storage, queue management, and cachingElasticSearch for full-text searchDevOps using Containers orchestrated with Kubernetes and HelmService and performance monitoring is done with DataDog and NewRelicInfrastructure managed with TerraformCloudflare and Fastly as CDN

Here are some past projects we’ve worked on that might help you get a better idea of what it means to work as a Full Stack Engineer at FetLife:

Implemented a profile verification system from the ground up using government ID and/or pictures portraying a certain gestureAdded discussion pre-moderation for groupsAdded support for installing FetLife as a Progressive Web AppImproved the efficiency of our Activity Feed Deliveries by splitting longer feed event deliveries into smaller async jobs and prioritizing delivery to more recently active membersIntroduced the possibility of tagging other members in pictures, videos, and writingsAdded powerful filtering to our on-site reporting system using ElasticSearchImproved location privacy for all our members by introducing granular location privacy settingsIntegrate Machine Learning solutions to detect age or potentially illegal content

About you

We’re looking for someone who has proven experience building and maintaining large production-level Ruby on Rails applications in the past.

Ideally, you have experience:

Working with a modern front-end framework (ideally Vue)Writing semantic JavaScript and (or) TypescriptWorking with Redis, MySQL or PostgreSQLWriting unit and integration tests using RSpec and Capybara

Additionally, since we’re 100% remote, we:

Highly value strong written communicatorsRequire three hours overlap any time between 10 AM and 6 PM CET

About Us

FetLife is the largest kinky social network on this side of the Milky Way. We:

Have over 10 million members and growingGrew 100% by word-of-mouthServe over 1.5 billion requests a day

You can find our team and core values here.

Pay & Benefits

We use a standardised salary calculator for each position to ensure we are competitive, fair, and consistent. For this specific role, the rate is between $115k - $170k USD / year.

Additionally, we offer:

Paid time off:2 weeks vacation5 statutory holidays (e.g. Easter & Thanksgiving)2 weeks during Christmas4-day workweeks during the summer months (July & August)Annual company retreat (e.g. Malaga, Miami, Vancouver, and Montreal)Annual anniversary gift (200$ USD for every year with us, e.g. 4th anniversary is $800)Monthly streaming music subscription reimbursementFully paid maternity and paternity leave