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Springboard Retail is the leading point of sale and retail management software, designed specifically to empower brands and retailers to harness their data and sell more profitably.

You are an experienced developer seeking to join a talented and diverse team that delivers best-in-class commerce software for omnichannel retailers and brands. You are excited by the challenge of rapidly delivering improvements to delight our customers and help their businesses thrive while at the same time maintaining the rock-solid stability required by a mission-critical system.

You will design, build and maintain our Ruby on Rails-based backend infrastructure. You will also partner closely with a range of colleagues including other developers, QA engineers, product managers, and decision makers across the company. You will actively mentor a team of developers through pairing and design sessions, serving as an example of best practices, and encouragement of team knowledge sharing.

Springboard Retail is a fully distributed team so this is a remote position. All of our processes are designed with a remote-first mindset.

RESPONSIBILITIES -

Backend software development

Design and build maintainable, secure, and scalable software systems

Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant technology ecosystems

Actively participate in the decision-making process around the architecture and future direction of both the product and technical systems

Serve as a mentor to junior developers

Develop expertise in a specific product domain and coordinate a team to deliver on roadmap goals in this area

REQUIREMENTS -

Professional web developer with 5+ years hands-on experience

3+ years experience with Ruby on Rails

Prior experience with point-of-sale (POS), e-commerce, payments or other retail software strongly preferred

A passion for product development

Highly motivated and self-directed

Excellent oral and written English communication skills

Strong organizational and time management skills

Experience with an agile process and working as part of a distributed team

Working knowledge of using a distributed version control system within a team environment (preferably Git)

Proven expertise using Ruby, JavaScript, HTTP/REST/JSON API design and implementation, SQL database design, querying, and optimization, HTML/CSS, RSpec (or similar testing framework), Linux

Bonus experience: Computer Science (or related) degree, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Sinatra, React, TypeScript, iOS/Swift, Android, Kubernetes, Docker, Chef, Puppet, or other configuration management system, retail experience

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