Senior Fullstack Software Developer (Backend Focused)

<h1>About OpsLevel</h1><p>OpsLevel is the leading internal developer portal designed to help engineering teams build, ship, and maintain software better than ever. We believe that developer portals are the linchpin to a successful developer experience. With customers like Duolingo, Sotheby's, Keller Williams, and Hootsuite, we know that the best businesses in the world prioritize a great developer experience in order to beat the competition.</p><p>We're a team of folks who care deeply about the daily lives of developers. OpsLevelers live our company values on a daily basis and when we’re not heads-down on a project or collaborating in real-time over Zoom, we're competing in trivia over lunch or sharing the latest fur baby photo in #pets-to-make-you-live-longer. </p><p>Our culture and values are very important and ground us in how we interact as one team:</p><p><strong>Empathy </strong>- Think of others; think of your users</p><p><strong>Growth Mindset </strong>- Get comfortable with being uncomfortable</p><p><strong>Intellectual Honesty </strong>- The best solution is more important than anyone's ego</p><p><strong>Focus &amp; Efficiency </strong>- Keep the main thing the main thing</p><p><strong>Simplicity</strong></p><p>About OpsLevel</p><p>OpsLevel is the leading internal developer portal designed to help engineering teams build, ship, and maintain software better than ever. We believe that developer portals are the linchpin to a successful developer experience. With customers like Duolingo, Sotheby's, Keller Williams, and Hootsuite, we know that the best businesses in the world prioritize a great developer experience in order to beat the competition.</p><p><br/></p><p>We're a team of folks who care deeply about the daily lives of developers. OpsLevelers live our company values on a daily basis and when we’re not heads-down on a project or collaborating in real-time over Zoom, we're competing in trivia over lunch or sharing the latest fur baby photo in #pets-to-make-you-live-longer. </p><p><br/></p><p>Our culture and values are very important and ground us in how we interact as one team:</p><p><strong>Empathy </strong>- Think of others; think of your users</p><p><strong>Growth Mindset </strong>- Get comfortable with being uncomfortable</p><p><strong>Intellectual Honesty </strong>- The best solution is more important than anyone's ego</p><p><strong>Focus &amp; Efficiency </strong>- Keep the main thing the main thing</p><p><strong>Simplicity</strong></p><p><br/></p><p>Our Stack</p><p>We believe in <a href="http://boringtechnology.club/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">boring technology</a> because it’s well tested and simple.  Our current stack is:</p><p>• Ruby on Rails (our main application’s backend)</p><p>• <a href="http://Vue.js" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Vue.js</a> (our app’s UI)</p><p>• GraphQL (how the UI and the backend talk to each other; also used by customers as part of our platform)</p><p>• MySQL (gotta store those bits somewhere)</p><p>• Redis (some bits gotta be stored faster)</p><p>• Terraform (config as code, because any other way is painful)</p><p>• Kubernetes (we use AWS EKS)</p><p>• Golang (for various operational tools and our open source offerings)</p><p>• AWS / GCP</p><p>• Docker</p><p>• DataDog</p><p>• Git</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p><strong>What You'll Do</strong></p><ul><li><p>Work with product, UX, and fellow developers to gain a deep understanding of customer problems and lead development of features to solve those problems</p></li><li><p>Hold a high bar of personal technical excellence, demonstrated through high quality, thoroughly tested, and exemplary code contributions and reviews</p></li><li><p>Contribute to our culture of “you build it, you own it” by listening to your spidey sense and identifying tech debt or other opportunities to improve our technical architecture</p></li><li><p>Discover, propose, and evangelize the latest &amp; best practices in Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, and database design</p></li><li><p>Build private and public GraphQL API’s that power the OpsLevel front-end experience and CLI capabilities</p></li><li><p>Lead technical explorations and create PoC prototypes to discover then build the best solution</p></li><li><p>Execute projects in a timely manner, helping the team communicate when they are on or off track to meet goals</p></li><li><p>Leverage your years of experience by being a mentor and investing in the growth and success of those around you</p></li><li><p>Participate in our oncall schedule, where you may be required to troubleshoot across our core technical stack (Ruby on Rails, VueJS, GraphQL, and MySQL)</p></li></ul><p><strong>About You</strong></p><ul><li><p>An empathetic, pragmatic, and collaborative approach to problem solving.  Done is better than perfect.</p></li><li><p>A strong growth mindset.  You’re comfortable learning new things quickly.  Unknowns are new frontiers waiting to be discovered</p>