As a Backend Engineer, you will be a key contributor to the growth, innovation, and continued improvement of Scott’s Cheap Flights. You will be collaborating with a lean team to write code designed to scale.

In the short term, you will…

• • Become familiar with our code base, code style, tech stack, development and deployment process, and our project management process
  • Contribute to design and code reviews
  • Work with a cross-functional team to support development of new features
  • Refactor, QA, and improve existing code

In the long term, you will…

• • Be an expert with all of our tooling: Bugsnag, Metabase, Heroku, New Relic, and more
  • Bring creative solutions to projects to support the continual improvement of Scott’s Cheap Flights
  • Take ownership of end to end feature and product development and help scale our back end

What you bring to the table:

• • • Experience working on new product development
    • Hands on expertise with Ruby/Rails
    • Experience writing automated unit tests, with bonus points for integrated and functional testing experience
    • You care about performance, usability, and accessibility across all devices
    • Empathy and passion to build production-ready features
    • Clear and earnest written and verbal communication skills
    • High standards for yourself and the code you write
    • Flexibility and an open-mindedness and willingness to learn
    • Occasional travel, with notice, is expected

• • Technologies we use:
  • Ruby on Rails is our primary server framework
  • React is our primary front end development framework
  • Postgres and Redis are our primary storage engines
  • BigQuery for our data warehouse
  • Heroku for deployments and infrastructure
  • GitHub for source code management
  • Circle CI for continuous integration
  • Notion for documentation and collaboration
  • Clubhouse for project management

Why you might love working here:

• • 100% remote work environment, so go ahead and bring your dog to work or wear your PJ’s to the office!
  • Open vacation policy, with a 3 week minimum!
  • Comprehensive health, vision, dental and life insurance
  • 401(k) with a 5% match
  • $500/quarter to set up your office however you want
  • Up to 12-weeks of paid family leave
  • Meetup meals when you cross paths with a co-worker
  • Continuing education & development reimbursement
  • Full Laptop Setup
  • Two annual fully paid team retreats (In 2021, we went to Cabo San Lucas!)
  • Challenging problems to solve and an awesome team to collaborate with every single day