Full-Stack Engineer - Phoenix, United States - Fly LLC

Fly LLC Phoenix, United States

6 days ago

Description

Now Hiring Intern Level 1 Level 2 Senior We're working through a backlog of applicants for this role and aren't currently accepting new applications. Please check back in a few months

In this role, youll get up close and personal with our users. Youll build out and improve the in-browser experience, and develop the APIs that power the web and command line experience. These are things our users directly interact with, and we think thats pretty fun.

Here are some cool problems you might work on:

Help us reach a bigger audience, by giving developers new ways of getting stuff done with (that is, in the browser). Were CLI-first, and thats not going to change, but we want to give developers more options
Help developers build new exciting stuff on top of our platform, by building out a better user-facing API.
Help us build out the UI for new products, like LiteFS Cloud.

Like most roles at , your day-to-day work will touch a lot of other important things, like security and even the low-level platform. You can expect to work primarily with Phoenix/Elixir, but youll also touch Ruby and Go code regularly.

This Role Is a Good Fit For You If:

You care about users. You can empathize with developers and make decisions to improve their lives.
You have opinions about UX, and can create new UIs from scratch. We dont expect you to be a visual designer (we have designers on the team), but youre comfortable building stuff that visual designers can chrome up.
You know Phoenix or another web development framework. If you dont know Phoenix and Elixir already, youre excited to learn them
You love jumping into something different every day Sometimes that will be a web service in Elixir, Rails, and Go. Sometimes youll wind up digging into our CLI or interfacing with our lower-level platform. Sometimes youll be working through weird infrastructure problems that no ones solved before to make a feature possible.
Youre comfortable with uncertainty, maybe even thrive in it; you can take big ideas and break them down into small, concrete features and then build those incrementally.
You like to move quickly to get your work into peoples hands, even if it means pushing your messy drafts and improving them later. Were OK with imperfect solutions that have a really good UX and solve a real customer problem.
You view writing code as part of, but not the whole, of your role. Youre down to answer questions, help someone get unstuck, and mentor and develop the people around you.

Youll Know Youre Succeeding in This Job If:

You feel comfortable making better for developers. Youre always thinking about how developers are using the features youre building, and what problem youre solving for them.
Youre building features that meet developers where they are. Theyre easy to use for newbie developers, while being powerful enough to not annoy experienced devs.
You ruthlessly scope features down to the smallest thing thats valuable for users, and get it in front of users as quickly as possible.
You know when to optimize for now versus later. You can make quick progress while keeping your eye on the end-goal.
You consider all the different touch points where developers interact with , from the flyctl CLI, to the public API, to the web UI, and how those interfaces interact and can work better together.
Youre actively contributing to the growth of the people around you.

More Details

This is a mid to senior level fully-remote full-time position. You can live anywhere in the world; your work hours and holidays observed are up to you. The salary ranges from $120k to $200k USD. We offer competitive equity grants with a long exercise window. Hopefully thats enough to keep you intrigued; heres what you should really care about:

Were a small team, almost entirely technical.
Engineers at have an unusual amount of autonomy and decision-making power. You will be making real product decisions that directly impact users, on a daily basis, without anyone standing over your shoulder telling you what to do.
We are active in developer communities, including our own at
Virtually all customer communication, documentation and blog posts are in writing. We are a global company, but most of our communication is in English. Clear writing in English is essential.
We are remote, with team members in 17 countries (and counting). Most internal communication is written, and often asynchronous. Youll want to be comfortable with not getting an immediate response for everything, but also know when you need to get an immediate response for something.
We are an unusually public team; youd want to be comfortable working in open channels rather than secretively over in a dark corner.
Were a real company - hopefully that goes without saying - and this is a real, according-to-Hoyle full-time job with health care for US employees, flexible vacation time (with a minimum), hardware/phone allowances, the standard stuff.

How We Hire People

Were weird about hiring. Were skeptical of resumes and we dont trust traditional interviews. We respect career experience but were more excited about potential.

The premise of our hiring process is that were going to give you two challenges, a work sample and a work day, that simulate the kind of work youll actually be doing here. Unlike a lot of places that assign take-home problems, our challenges are the backbone of our whole process; theyre not pre-screeners for an interview gauntlet. For the work sample, youll build an part of an invoicing system so that we can properly bill users (well tell you more). You can do this challenge at your own pace, and it should take about 2 hours if you already know Elixir. For the work day youll join two of us on Slack to work through a problem together.

If youre interested, mail You can tell us a bit about yourself if you like. Please also include 1. your GitHub username (so we can create a private work sample repo for you) 2. your location (so we know what timezone youre in for scheduling) and 3. a sentence about your favorite food (so we know youre not a bot.)