{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"9324e5b16c509fb1a43184f5","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/9324e5b16c509fb1a43184f5","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/9324e5b16c509fb1a43184f5","title":"Staff Software Developer","description":"BackerKit helps creators bring projects to life. For over a decade, we've powered some of the world's most successful crowdfunding campaigns. We're always building the next generation of our platform, innovating, and driving the industry forward.\r\nWe're a remote-first team of ~40 people with a diverse, close-knit team that prizes creativity, enthusiasm, and a willingness to learn. We move quickly, think deeply about our users, and care about building software that lasts.\r\nWe're looking for a Staff-level engineer who is deeply motivated by user experience, interaction design, and frontend craftsmanship and excited to bring that to life within a Ruby on Rails monolith.\r\nThe role\r\nThis is a frontend and UX leadership role. You'll work directly in Rails views using Hotwire, Turbo, Stimulus, and Tailwind to simplify complex workflows and create intuitive user experiences.\r\nYou'll help shape frontend patterns across the product, and turn our powerful, interconnected systems into intuitive experiences that are fast, clear, and approachable.\r\nThis role is high-context, high-collaboration, and high-impact. You'll define patterns, raise the quality bar across the product, and influence how the entire Engineering, Product & Design team thinks about user experience. Everyone at BackerKit is customer-facing, and we expect everyone to get to know the creators and backers that we serve.\r\nHow we build\r\nWe iterate quickly, ship small experiments, and learn from customers. We are a pairing shop who uses Claude Code, practices TDD, works in one-week iterations, and ships multiple times a day.\r\nWe are small-a agile, which means no component of our process is sacrosanct. Weekly retrospectives (among other things) help make sure that our processes evolve as we do. We value communication and shared ownership over rigid roles. As one of our most senior folks, we hope you'll contribute thoughtfully to those discussions and experiments, bringing your unique experience to bear.\r\nBackerKit is a Ruby on Rails \"majestic monolith\" deployed on Heroku. The codebase has been around since 2012. Despite that, it is relatively well-factored and well-tested – we've been tending this garden for over a decade!\r\nWe value simplicity, maintainability, communication, and shared ownership.\r\nWe're a remote-first team working primarily 9-5 Pacific.\r\nWhat you'll do\r\nPartner with our Director of Engineering and Staff Engineer to shape technical direction\r\nLead the evolution of frontend architecture (components, rendering strategies, etc)\r\nTranslate product and design intent into elegant, maintainable UI\r\nSimplify complex workflows and improve usability, responsiveness, and performance\r\nPartner closely with Engineering, Product, and Design on solution development\r\nMentor engineers and raise the bar for frontend and UX craftsmanship\r\nTake actual breaks and vacations - no off-hours or weekend work except when the app experiences unforeseen issues (which does not happen often)\r\nWhat we're looking for\r\nTechnical & craft\r\nDeep experience building high-quality user interfaces, and recent hands-on coding\r\nStrong fundamentals in HTML, CSS, JS, and browser behavior\r\nComfort working directly in Rails views, helpers, and partials\r\nExperience with or strong interest in Hotwire / Turbo / Stimulus\r\nPreference for simple, maintainable systems over unnecessary abstraction\r\nProduct & UX thinking\r\nStrong product and interaction design instincts\r\nExperience simplifying complex workflows\r\nAbility to work effectively with ambiguity\r\nStaff-level impact\r\nExperience shaping engineering patterns and conventions\r\nStrong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills\r\nAct as a go-to partner for complex or ambiguous frontend and UX challenges\r\nAbility to zoom out to systems (architecture and business-level) thinking while remaining comfortable bushwhacking in the weeds\r\nMost successful candidates for this role have 10+ years of software development experience working on multiple complex software projects over time, though we do not have a strict years-of-experience requirement.\r\nThis role is a great fit if you\r\nHave deep knowledge of Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript\r\nCare deeply about how software feels to use\r\nEnjoy working across product, design, and backend concerns\r\nPrefer cohesive Rails applications over fragmented frontend stacks or SPAs\r\nTreat constraints as a creative tool\r\nPrefer working in React, Vue, or SPA-heavy environments\r\nPrefer fully decoupled frontend/backend architectures\r\nPrefer long periods of solo or heads-down work\r\nCompensation & benefits\r\nRemote-first position on a distributed team\r\nCompetitive salary and stock option plan\r\nMedical, dental, vision, and 401k benefits (with employer match!)\r\nStipends for supporting creators of your choosing\r\nAnnual Learning and Development stipend to support your professional growth\r\nFamily-friendly and focused on maintaining a healthy work/life balance\r\nAwesome work environment at a company with a huge opportunity\r\nSalary range: $184,000 - $235,000 a year\r\nThe base salary for this role is targeted at $184,000-$204,000/year for Denver and most remote locations, and $211,000-$235,000/year for San Francisco, Seattle, and New York City. 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