Staff Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

About the Role

Caribou is looking for an experienced Staff Engineer that loves to build important and meaningful products for our customers and partners. You will directly support one of our three product engineering teams and will play a key role in building and maintaining our high performing engineering organization. 

In this role, you will…

• Play an active role in the entire software development process (e.g., planning, requirement gathering, conceptual and technical design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance). 
• Envision and build a scalable foundation that improves the way we onboard and manage our lending partners. 
• Be accountable for driving a technical vision and key technical decisions that will lead to critical business outcomes. 
• Drive technical excellence within the Lending Partner team and across engineering. You will focus on technical quality, stability, and resilience of the products and systems you support.
• Lead architectural design and code reviews and support / mentor engineers across the organization.

This role can be based out of Caribou offices in Washington, DC and Denver, CO. Alternatively, this role may work remotely from a state where Caribou operates*. This role may require attendance at occasional in-person team meetings.

About You

You, like us, are driven to achieve your goals. At Caribou, we have just three core values: Give a damn. Velocity. Make the assist. We’re motivated. We race towards our goals. And we help each other along the way. 

You have:

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Experience building, leading, architecting, and scaling full-stack Ruby on Rails applications.
• Technical leadership with proven experience to lead project teams, set technical direction and strategy, and work cross-functionally with Product, Design, and other parts of the business. 
• Passionate software engineer with high standards of craftsmanship (high quality, low tech debt, low maintenance cost etc.)
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Technologies we use:

• Ruby on Rails, Typescript, Node
• Postgres, Cloud Pub/Sub
• GCP Cloud Platform

How we will take care of you

Everyone at Caribou is a valued team member. Our compensation and benefits package includes: 

• Competitive compensation: $160-200k
• Equity options
• 401k savings program
• Generous paid time off including: Flexible Time Off (FTO) for all employees and 100% paid parental leave for all parents.
• Robust wellness benefits including company-paid plans for health, dental, vision, mental health, disability and basic life insurance.
• Optional benefits to suit your individual circumstances such as HSAs, FSAs, supplemental life and medical insurance, and pet insurance.
• Up to $1,000 per year for eligible professional development expenses.