Senior Software Engineer

Job description

DemoCorp is looking for Full Stack Engineers to join our growing tech team. We’re at a unique point in our growth where we’re big enough to offer stability, development best practices, and a variety of projects but still small enough so that every engineer makes a big impact on the product and code base. Okta named us the [second fastest growing](https://www.okta.com/blog/2015/12/2015s-cool-kids-shake-ups-and-comebacks/) enterprise SaaS company in 2015. In the past year, we’ve started to move from a monolithic application to distributed web services, begun switching our hosting from Heroku to AWS, and built a test suite with over 8k tests covering our system, but we’re just getting started with scaling challenges. Here is a glimpse at some of the projects and architecture decisions you’d be involved with: - Scaling from 100M requests per month to 500M requests per month - Building and deploying globally distributed systems with sharding, read/write splitting, and HA - Improving page load time by 30% - Designing and implementing a unified API - Building Greenhouse's mobile experiences Our engineers can expect to start contributing to feature development within their first weeks using Ruby on Rails and Javascript. You’ll also influence how the team is structured, mentor and teach your fellow engineers, and learn alongside other senior engineers in an agile environment. At Greenhouse, we believe in concrete deliverables, feedback and iteration, collaboration and transparency, and recognition for your impact and contributions. **You should have:** - Interest in growing yourself and your teammates - OO programming fundamentals - Solid Javascript fundamentals - Experience with Rails or another web-based MVC framework - Prior experience in developing a complex, multi-tenant web application - A deep understanding of modern web applications and experience with issues related to scale, security, availability, deployment, and operations - A good understanding of RESTful API design **Pay, perks & such:** At Greenhouse, we take care of our employees and it shows. Greenhouse was proudly named among Crain's New York Business 2015 Best Places to Work in NYC, we were also named as a Best Places to Work by the San Francisco Business Times in 2016! We provide competitive salaries, stock options and a full slate of benefits including health coverage, an FSA, a 401K plan and pre-tax commuter benefits. We invest in our people to ensure that they have everything needed to excel on the job. We pride ourselves on a collaborative culture, including company get-togethers like our monthly CEO "Ask Me Anything" and All Hands meetings. We are a distributed company with offices in New York and San Francisco. Check us out on [Glassdoor](http://bit.ly/GD-JobPost) where we have outstanding reviews by current employees and candidates alike! **Our philosophy is to empower ourselves and each other to do the best work of our careers. Come join us!**