Backerkit
Staff Software Developer
San Francisco / Remote · Staff+ · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$184k-$235kDetected 56 days ago
JavaScriptRubyReactVue.jsHTMLCSSTailwind CSSRailsResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- 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.
- We'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.
Responsibilities
- Partner with our Director of Engineering and Staff Engineer to shape technical direction
- Lead the evolution of frontend architecture (components, rendering strategies, etc)
- Translate product and design intent into elegant, maintainable UI
- Partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Design on solution development
- Deep experience building high-quality user interfaces, and recent hands-on coding
Requirements
- Comfort working directly in Rails views, helpers, and partials
- Experience with or strong interest in Hotwire / Turbo / Stimulus
- Experience simplifying complex workflows
- Ability to work effectively with ambiguity
- Experience shaping engineering patterns and conventions
- Ability to zoom out to systems (architecture and business-level) thinking while remaining comfortable bushwhacking in the weeds
- Most 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.
- Have deep knowledge of Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript
Nice to have
- BackerKit helps creators bring projects to life.
- For over a decade, we've powered some of the world's most successful crowdfunding campaigns.
- Perhaps this is you!
- This is a frontend and UX leadership role.
- You'll help shape frontend patterns across the product, and turn our powerful, interconnected systems into intuitive experiences that are fast, clear, and approachable.
- This role is high-context, high-collaboration, and high-impact.
- Everyone at BackerKit is customer-facing, and we expect everyone to get to know the creators and backers that we serve (plus, they are awesome, just like you!).
Compensation
- Competitive salary and stock option plan
- Annual Learning and Development stipend to support your professional growth
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and 401k benefits (with employer match!)
Company info
- We are a pairing shop who uses Claude Code, practices TDD, works in one-week iterations, and ships multiple times a day.
- We are small-a agile, which means no component of our process is sacrosanct.
- What we're looking for
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