Who you are
You are looking for a challenging and rewarding experience. You are inspired by our vision and the opportunity to define a new category in an incredibly fast-growing market. You are excited to learn, grow and collaborate so we can achieve our mission of creating opportunity for all through mobility.
At HopSkipDrive, we know that challenges require different approaches, unique perspectives and new ways of thinking. We are building a team of creative problem-solvers from many different backgrounds.
Your role:
A Rails Engineer III will enter this level capable of taking well-defined tasks and completing them in a way that is considered by the team to be high-quality with supervision from more senior team members. The progress through this level is focused on taking tasks of increasing complexity, scope and importance and completing them with very high quality with a lessening need for manager/tech lead oversight.
This level is the bread-and-butter level of engineering growth. Engineers at this level should be focused on becoming great engineers, learning how to set high quality bars for their work without sacrificing productivity. All engineers at and above this level should religiously follow stated best practices for the team without excessive hand holding. Engineers at this level will continue to make mistakes, but should be improving the speed at which they learn from these mistakes. By the time an engineer II is ready to be promoted they will have focused on some technology as their expertise and become capable of mentoring interns and new engineers in these areas. They will start to participate more in the technical design process, often with guidance from senior engineers.
Engineers at this level are assumed to be constantly making steady progress on tasks that are assigned to them and know when to ask for help when they are blocked. They can own their independent small-to-medium features all the way through from technical design to launch. They are capable of prioritizing the work in front of them and able to make forward progress, avoiding the temptation to focus on unimportant details or excessive bikeshedding.
The impact at this level is focused on task completion and depth in a small area of the code base. Engineers at this level should be capable of taking responsibility for their code during releases as well as on-call support for simple incidents in areas that they are not always familiar with.
They communicate well and are capable of delivering feedback to peers and their manager. When given a task with unclear requirements they know how to ask for clarification, and ensure that all assumptions are vetted before work starts to reduce the need for re-work. They understand how their work fits into the larger picture for their team, and use this to identify conflicting requirements to their tech lead and product manager. An important focus of this level is developing empathy for the users of their software, whether they be internal employees, customers, or other developers on the team. A team member at this level is seeking out the context they need to understand the why of a particular feature and nurturing this empathy via that understanding.
Above all, they want to build something that fundamentally improves the lives of families.
What you will do:
Communicate well with all members of the teamPerform well-defined engineering tasks; doesnât get caught up in the unknown, works to figure it out, asks questionsAlert manager/team to any issues preventing their work from being accomplished, asks for helpActively pursue improving engineering skills, including but not limited to problem solving, writing readable/testable/efficient code, mastering technology in our stack, and learning to anticipate scaling issues.Seek to tie stories back to user value and impact for our drivers and organizersContribute meaningfully to the definition of storiesPick up any story and suggest a solution for completing itLean into challenges when they offer the potential to create large impact, and does so with productivity and positivityBe able to dive in to an area of the code/product that youâre not familiar with and make changesMake sure your code is readable & easy to maintainMake sure your code is tested appropriatelyReview other engineersâ code and provide constructive feedbackMonitor changes in production and rollback if necessaryHave production access and use it responsibly
What you’ll need:
2+ years experience with Ruby on Rails3+ years of professional software engineeringSolid experience with PostgreSQL or MySQLA thirst for knowledge and continuous learningExperience working on a team in a professional settingDemonstrated ability to collaborate well with a teamDemonstrated ability to learn from mistakesDemonstrated ability to unblock themselves, asks for help where necessaryDemonstrated good communication skills with teammates and showed a good degree of emotional and professional maturity.A connection to HopSkipDriveâs mission and values
** This role will be fully remote from a state where we do business AZ, CA, CO, FL, IL, KS, MD, WI, OK, UT, TN, NC, SC, NV, NM, NJ, NY, OR, TX, VA, WA, MO, MI**
What you will get
We want you to be an owner in our company and share in executing our vision, so every full-time employee has equity. In addition, we offer competitive market comp, flexible vacation, FSA, medical, dental and vision, 401(k), and an opportunity to work for a uniquely positioned, VC-backed company in a hugely attractive space with significant upside potential. HopSkipDrive is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this role is $130,000 to $150,000 year. Final compensation for this role will be determined by several factors such as a candidateâs relevant work experience, skill set and specific work location. The total compensation package for this role also includes equity stock options