Backend Ruby on Rails Engineer

Engineering
San José, Costa Rica

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About the Job

The Lifetime Value Co.  is looking for a Full-Stack Ruby Engineer to join our growing team. Your experience here will give you the opportunity to touch upon and learn a broad spectrum of skills up and down the stack as well as a breadth of technologies in any one layer. If you’re comfortable writing backend APIs, helping with database decisions, debugging complex issues that span multiple systems, learning about infrastructure and working on cool new products then this might be the job for you. You will have a voice in what you build and you’ll have the opportunity to prove your ideas right with data and testing. At The Lifetime Value Co., we all work closely together across teams so there’s no red tape or bureaucracy. We get things done!

What You’ll Get to Do

• In our team of developers, every developer has some ownership of a portion of our architecture. There are several different applications, all with a roadmap of features and fixes that you can sink your teeth into. These range from our main Rails application (Rails, Unicorn, Nginx) to data collection and archiving (Redis, ElasticSearch, MySQL, Mongo, etc.).
• Most of our development is done in Ruby but we do have portions written in other languages as well (PHP, Go, etc).
• A software engineer joining our team would be expected to not only handle the normal bug mashing and feature implementation but also work on making our software and processes more developer-friendly.
• We expect members of our team to be vocal about problems that they see as we prefer to be proactive rather than reactive.
• If you’re going through a code base and see inefficiencies that need to be attended to, we’ll get them on the short-term road map or, in some cases, just work it into an existing task depending on what makes the most sense.
• Our engineering team is a strong proponent of the phrase “leave it better than you found it.”

What You Bring to the Table

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Math, Engineering or even a Ruby-centric developer boot camp.
• Minimum of 3 years of professional full-stack coding experience and have a strong grasp of the Ruby language and Rails.
• Familiarity with Ruby’s interpreter and how to optimize for its shortcomings.
• Familiarity with Sinatra framework.
• Comfortable working with various databases and picking up new technologies.
• Understanding of TDD and BDD best practices.
• Understanding of best practices for code development.
• Familiarity with Unix-based operating systems and Docker/Kubernetes.
• A passion to learn and to impart knowledge to others.
• Someone who takes the initiative to teach themselves cutting edge tech, and learn new languages and frameworks.
• Excitement around performance optimizations, experimenting with new features, splitting big applications into smaller apps, and rapidly iterating on a piece of code.
• Experience in one or more JS front-end frameworks is a plus, but not required.

Languages

• English - Proficient level

Your Reward for Greatness

• Competitive salaries
• Panamerican life insurance
• Panamerican private health insurance
• Extra bonus at the end of the year
• One extra vacation week per year (3 in total)
• 2 sick leave days per year
• $500 reimbursement for home office improvements
• Twice a week meal delivery through UberEats
• $650 wellness & fitness subsidies
• Anniversary bonuses & appreciation gifts
• Day of personal significance
• Online trainings paid by the company
• 100% coverage in English and third language classes
• Customized growth opportunities
• Flexible work schedule
• Work from home
• Innovative, energetic culture with great people
• Leadership development
• Employee resource groups through Slack
• Password management with 1Password
• $300 Quarterly Home Utility Reimbursement

Why LTV Co.?

If you have ambitions to be a part of a high-growth, results-driven, industry-leading organization, LTV is the place to be. LTV builds exciting data products and then we market them with passion. We’re a fast-growing company in New York City that balances the culture of a startup with the stability of being an established, profitable company. We want to work with people that strive to be in the top .01% of their field. We understand that getting to the top takes hard work, constant improvement, and by making data-driven decisions. It’s a thrilling time to join the team, as we’re expanding our product offerings in exciting new ways, driving innovation through data, marketing, and web & app development.

We believe in diversity and hiring people from all backgrounds and walks of life. You must be energetic, inventive, a team player, and looking to help build and grow the company each and every day. You must have an inner desire to win and the idea of losing is a non-starter. If you are looking for a position that allows you to work with a group of smart and dedicated people who will support you but still provide the autonomy you need to execute your strategy, then you should probably apply as soon as you’re done reading this!

About Us

LTV was founded in New York by Josh Levy and Ross Cohen in 2007. At the time their mission was to provide easy and affordable access to public records. Something that in 2007, was only really accessible to corporations. Since then their mission has expanded to developing products and services that grant access to information and data across a number of verticals. In service of this mission, LTV has 7 consumer brands including BeenVerified, NumberGuru, PeopleLooker, NeighborWho, Ownerly, PeopleSmart, and Bumper.

Our mission is to develop a diverse portfolio of technologies, products, and services, that gives all people equal access to unbiased data and information. We believe that through this access people can empower and protect themselves in today’s ever-changing world, filled with fake news, deception, and a lack of transparency.

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