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BackerKit · San Francisco / Remote · Remote

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About BackerKit

Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

This is a hands-on fullstack, product engineering role reporting to our Director of Engineering, Product, and Design. You’ll lead mainly through the code you write, review, and ship, and most of your week should be devoted to the team’s queue. We are looking for a UX- and business-minded engineer to work directly in Rails views to simplify complex workflows, create intuitive user experiences, and help transform the crowdfunding landscape. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Technical, craft, and process
  • Deep experience building high-quality user interfaces, and recent hands-on coding
  • Strong fundamentals in HTML, CSS, JS, and browser behavior
  • Comfort working directly in Rails views, helpers, and partials
  • Experience with or strong interest in Hotwire / Turbo / Stimulus
  • Preference for simple, maintainable systems over unnecessary abstraction
More about this role

BackerKit helps creators bring projects to life. For over a decade, we’ve powered some of the world’s most successful crowdfunding campaigns. We’re always building the next generation of our platform, innovating, and driving the industry forward.

We’re a remote-first company of ~40 people with a diverse, close-knit team that prizes creativity, enthusiasm, and a willingness to learn. We move quickly, think deeply about our users, and care about building software that lasts.

We’re looking for a full-time, Staff-level engineer who is deeply motivated by user experience, interaction design, and frontend craftsmanship and excited to bring that to life within a Ruby on Rails monolith. Perhaps this is you!

This is a hands-on fullstack, product engineering role reporting to our Director of Engineering, Product, and Design. You’ll lead mainly through the code you write, review, and ship, and most of your week should be devoted to the team’s queue. We are looking for a UX- and business-minded engineer to work directly in Rails views to simplify complex workflows, create intuitive user experiences, and help transform the crowdfunding landscape.

You’ll help shape frontend patterns across the...

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