About OpenUnit

OpenUnit is looking for software engineers to join our founding team. More than anything, we seek individuals with strong coding fundamentals. We work in a highly collaborative environment. Our team is still small, and people wear many hats. You will have the opportunity to jump between engineering, product, customer support, and design - participating in every part of the business from idea to production.

About the role

Skills: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL

Platform engineering is a core group at OpenUnit focused on maintaining and improving our core components, and we are looking for a Senior level engineer to help us do it. This team is focused on our internal job running tool, which is critical for our engineers and our feature development.

As a engineer, you’ll help drive the product vision to its implementation. You will work alongside the team to design and build technically innovative solutions that empower all teams at OpenUnit to work quickly. Self-storage operators that depend on OpenUnit for a highly scalable, performant, and reliable platform benefit directly from the work you do. You’ll also be hands-on in our code and will contribute technically.

Qualifications

You should be well-versed in modern browser APIs, HTML, and CSS
Back-end programming experience, especially with Ruby, is a plus but not a requirement.
Experience using technologies and frameworks like (but not limited to) some of our most-used languages — Ruby on Rails, Stimulus, Hotwire, Elasticsearch and Redis
Curiosity and passion to constantly learn new things; OpenUnit changes fast, and we need the people who work here to be able to change and learn fast too
Experience with relational databases and SQL

About the job

The engineering team consists of two full-time people, and two part-time people, whose work has given rise to the core platform that multiple operators use to handle their day-to-day operations — these operators have acted as test group, and we will soon be letting operators from the waitlist on as we approach a public release. You’ll join the team and work with them closely.

As a member of the engineering team at OpenUnit, you’ll fend off complexity and find a simpler path. You’ll fix bugs. You’ll go deep. You’ll learn from us and we’ll learn from you. You’ll have the freedom and autonomy to do your best work, and plenty of support along the way.

Here are some real examples of the work we’ve done lately that might help you to get a better idea of what this job entails:

Designing, implementing, documenting, and maintaining front-end systems for multiple high-traffic websites
Addressing appliction-level encryption to handle personally identifiable information (PII) before it’s sent to the database
Building a state machine to allow for different types of payment authorization
Routing incoming emails to controller-like mailboxes to allow reply by email

This is a snapshot of our experience running production-grade apps and a capable, supportive team for the long haul. Your experience and background will join ours! We have worlds to learn and we’re eager to do it together. You can expect to teach us, coach us, and expect the same in return.

About you

We’re looking for someone with strong front-end JavaScript experience. You should be well-versed in modern browser APIs, HTML, and CSS. Back-end programming experience, especially with Ruby. You won’t know how all the systems work on day one, and we don’t expect you to. Nobody hits the ground running.

You can expect a mindful onboarding process with ramp-up and time to learn. You can expect a team that listens, and to be heard. You can expect to give and provide direct feedback.

We do not expect a long-track record of employment is not what we are impressed with. A strong history of conscientious, thoughtful work speaks volumes.

This is a remote job. You’re free to work where you work best, anywhere in the world: home office, coworking space, coffeeshops. We currently do not have an office, and look to be a digital by default company.

Technology

As a team our focus is firmly on the web: the core technology that powers our applications on all platforms. It’s hard to pin down a name for this stack, but it’s a majestic monolith, built using Ruby on Rails. We embrace a “HTML over the wire” architecture, of server-rendered HTML, and “sprinkle” bits of interactive JavaScript. Season with Redis and ElasticSearch, we should have all we’ll ever need. For the foreseeable future anyways. We take a privacy-first approach to customer data.

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