Senior Rails Programmer id-7062

We're a small team working on Basecamp, HEY and its Calendar, ONCE, and new greenfield products at 37signals. Just ten Ruby programmers total. Doing all this product work plus a steady stream of new open source frameworks and tools. And we're now looking for a new product programmer to join the team.

 

Everyone says that they only "hire the best", but by definition, most of them must be full of it. Less because they're lying, more because most companies just can't discern quality. That's what happens at feature factories: endless Jira tickets flow from non-technical product managers, and shipping something, anything against that backlog is all that matters.

 

That's not how we work at 37signals.

 

We don't actually have any dedicated middle managers. The day-to-day supervision of new team members is being done by other programmers serving as mentors, and by working together with designers to ship the cycle work.

 

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In addition, we believe in the magic of just letting Managers of One do their job through long stretches of uninterrupted time. It's incredible how much progress you can make when your calendar isn't stuffed full of pointless meetings with pointy-haired bosses, and you get to collaborate with incredibly talented, passionate people who thrive on shipping great software.

 

That's what we care about here: great software. That means great for everyone. Great for customers, but also great for the programmers programming it and the designers designing it. Beautiful code. Making our own tools. Compressing complexity. It quickly gets corny, but craftsmanship and care of code still does exist in this world — it's not all just AI slop.

 

Inspired yet? If so, here's a bit more of who we're looking for in this round: A senior product programmer with Ruby on Rails experience. Someone who can imagine themselves as a manager of one, and is comfortable working remotely. We don't put a lot of weight on educational pedigree at this end of the seniority scale, but on finding someone smart, who gets things done, and write prose and code with care and eloquence.

 

This role is specifically for product work. So you could be working alongside a designer on adding new features to Basecamp and HEY one cycle, then working on a brand new product in the next three. You'll dedicate time to addressing issues to make sure our apps are robust and our codebase is weed free. We also occasionally rotate people back and forth between product work and our SIP team (security/infrastructure/performance — where a lot of the open-source tool making happens).

 

 

Here are some real examples of the work the product team has done lately:

Extending a system to move information within Basecamp to accommodate a long-requested feature.

 

Collaborating with a designer to create a novel way of tracking progress in Basecamp.

 

Building a system to export iCalendar feeds for calendar events.

 

Diving into the RFC 5545 standard to design a system to synchronize external calendars incrementally.

 

Creating a Ruby library to parse natural expressions into dates.

 

Working with a designer to add more recurrence options to HEY Calendar.

 

Investigating why a HEY screen presents a jumpy scroll when navigating to it.

 

Troubleshooting and fixing a bug where a customer can't export emails for an Extension in HEY.

 

Creating an API for Campfire that customers can use to build their own chatbots.

 

Designing a Ruby gem that brings easy Web Push notification support to Rails.

 

Building a feature for session transfer via QR code, so Campfire users can quickly move between devices without logging in again.

 

This is a remote job, but we're only looking for people based in the Americas or Europe to ensure your work day overlaps with our existing team.

 

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