Braintrust
AI

Lead Full Stack Engineer, Ruby on Rails [Remote]

Braintrust · CA San Francisco, California, United States · $84k - $100k

Actively hiring Posted almost 4 years ago

Role overview

Our client uses an SMS platform to connect food insecure people to nearby restaurants, where they can pick up meals. They are looking for a full-stack engineer to help migrate from our no-code, duct-tape and glue platform to a maintainable, modular, in-house system.
Additionally, they will be running an innovation process in Denver to identify prototypes and eventually develop new products and services that help address food insecurity.

Responsibilities

  • JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)
  • LOCATION: Remote - United States and Canada only (TimeZone: EST | Partial overlap)
  • HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $120 – $160/hr
  • ESTIMATED DURATION: 40h/week - Long-term 

Basic qualifications

Ruby on Rails / Django: essentially a batteries included, stable, widely utilized web framework.
SQL: some of our no-code tools utilize SQL. You’ll learn it quickly.
Javascript: plain old standard JS, not SPA/React

Preferred qualifications

  • Migrating off Airtable to Rails/Django/etc.
  • Standardization and centralization of no-code services
  • Building a more robust matching algorithm for matching food insecure folks to meals.

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Remote Dev Full Stack Lead Ruby React Javascript
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