Junior Software Engineer

Job Description

As a junior software engineer at Clerky, you will:

• Maintain and add features to our Middleman and Gitbook sites
• Maintain our builds and continuous integration setups
• Investigate bugs and sporadic test failures
• Implement features and fix bugs in our main application
• Work with top-notch senior engineers (all of us have 10+ years experience)

This is a great fit if you want to work:

• ... at a product-driven company bringing an old-fashioned industry into the future
• ... on a complex product, with a ton of engineering challenges
• ... on a well-loved product with a lot of usage and visibility in the startup community
• ... in a company that strongly values good software development practices
• ... at a financially sound company
• ... with bright people who are extremely passionate about their work
• ... where you'll be a key early software engineer

Notes on our stack and process:

• Our backend is mostly in Ruby on Rails, with very small amounts of Scala and Go as well.
• Our front-end is mostly in Ember.
• We use CI extensively for linting, tests, visual diffs, and deployment.
• We're not religious about any particular technology - we believe in using the right tool for a given problem.

Qualifications

• Strong ability to learn on your own. You will receive some mentorship and guidance from our senior software engineers, but you should expect to learn mostly on your own.
• Discipline and patience to write clean code and use best practices. We are unlike most startups and write code to last - we do not rapidly iterate on prototypes.

Additional Information

This position is 100% remote. We are happy to support an H-1B visa application after 2 years of employment.