Job Description

About Engineering at Reverb

We build primarily in Ruby/Rails and React, but we value identifying the right language/framework for the job. We believe in fast feedback cycles, pragmatic code, continuous deployment, and validating our ideas in production as soon as we can.

Our teams are highly collaborative and empowered to make a better experience for our customers. We rely on our ability to work as a team and incorporate different perspectives in order to ship meaningful and impactful software to our users.

About the Role

This is a full-time position in the Trust team. This team focuses on building the tools to ensure safety in the Reverb marketplace - a very critical part of getting our sellers matched with our buyers! Current and future work for this team includes:

• Implementing complex, legislation driven, rules to validate sellers are who they claim to be

• Detecting fraud before it disappoints our users

• Integrating machine learning services into our core products

Here are the qualities we look for in our potential hires:

Product ownership - We are not just software engineers. At Reverb, you’ll be encouraged to follow the performance of features and systems you release, talk to product, research and design. Fix bugs and understand your impact on the business.

Self-motivation - Taking the initiative to get things done by finding ways around potential roadblocks and proactively working with other team members to find right-sized solutions. You own your work.

Learning and Teaching - You are someone who likes to participate in code reviews and mentor other engineers directly. You also enjoy new challenges and learning new things to help you do your work more effectively.

This is a full-time position open to remote candidates within multiple states, as well as candidates local to Chicago, IL. For candidates who will work remotely visit this link for a list of approved locations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience with web technologies. (We mainly use Ruby/Rails and React/GraphQL in Typescript)

• Deep knowledge of your chosen languages and frameworks, but curiosity and ability to ramp up on new technologies quickly when called for.

• Experience safely and efficiently integrating 3rd party APIs

• Best practices around safeguarding user personal information and application security

• Complex domain modeling

• Ability to lead and break down complex problems into bite sized solutions

• Comfortable with CI/CD strategies and deployment

• Experience with unit testing (whether TDD, BDD, or spike it first and test it later) and a desire to push everyone to do better.

• Experience with or willingness to learn Pair Programming. (It’s not 100% of the time, but we like to pair, especially when starting anything significantly new.)

• Great communication skills and the desire to collaborate across departments and with internal customers. Able to ask clarifying questions and provide tech context when needed