Our mission at Holopod is to help every remote worker design their ideal work day.

We are a venture-backed, collaborative, 100% distributed team.

Experimentation, risk tolerance and an open-minded willingness to try new things out are core to how we operate.

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced engineer with a breadth of familiarity across technologies to take ownership of the technical vision for Holopod’s evolving stack. You are familiar with Ruby, SQL, have experience building distributed systems, have a track record of deploying multiple services to containers on cloud providers and owning their operation and maintenance. Most importantly, you are flexible in a dynamic startup environment and will provide leadership to a small (2-3 person) engineering team.

Our plan is to grow, fast. We're looking for a leader who can grow with us.

Responsibilities

• Working with the team to produce backend services to support business requirements
• Designing scalable and maintainable backend services and infrastructure
• Planning, releasing and migrating new services
• Instrumenting new and existing services with monitoring capabilities
• Ensuring a standard of quality as infrastructure and services stabilize as the business matures
• Driving the product’s technical architecture evolution
• Being a technical leader for the team

Skills & Qualifications

We consider the following skills as necessary:

• Excellent communication skills, both technical and interpersonal
• Experience working in a 100% distributed and remote environment
• 3+ years experience with our primary technology: Ruby (specifically Ruby on Rails)
• Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL)