Senior Software Engineer

Remote Platform engineering is a core group at OpenUnit focused on maintaining and improving our core components, and we are looking for a Senior level engineer to help us do it. This team is focused on our core model architecture, which is critical for the future shaping of OpenUnit and our feature development. As an early employee, you will help shape the decisions around how the engineering organization evolves over the next 2 or 3 years. In this role, you’ll be working with a team of engineers committed to building OpenUnit's product suite, which enables self-storage operators to better integrate their online store with their physical presence. You can expect to own the implementation of our technical roadmap, empower other engineers, and design best practices. You will collaborate with teams throughout the company and represent our group in cross-departmental projects. Bonus Points: You’ve mentored teammates on new ways to deepen their technical craft. → Submit Application Send application to jobs@openunit.com About the job The engineering team consists of two full-time people, and two part-time people, whose work has given rise to the core platform that multiple operators use to handle their day-to-day operations — these operators have acted as test group, and we will soon be letting operators from the waitlist on as we approach a public release. You’ll join the team and work with them closely. You’ll pitch in on securing our Rails apps, scaling it to match our growth (we always are building towards the next order of magnitude), and keeping it fast, end to end. You’ll develop internal tooling and systems that help our Marketplace, Ops, and Support teams run the business day-to-day. You'll be exposed to a number of different area sets, including revenue management, payment processing, taxation, and all of the "fun" stuff that comes alongside handling connected domain names. You’ll enter a productive development experience that puts a premium on designer and programmer happiness. In the future you will grow a team, both through internal development and external hiring -- you will manage teams and help them prioritize, build and ship the most impactful products & features. You will bring context and learnings into our team from other projects and mentor junior developers through technically challenging decisions. Here are some real examples of the work we’ve done lately that might help you to get a better idea of what this job entails:

• Designing, implementing, documenting, and maintaining front-end systems for multiple high-traffic websites
• Addressing appliction-level encryption to handle personally identifiable information (PII) before it’s sent to the database
• Building a state machine to allow for different types of payment authorization
• Routing incoming emails to controller-like mailboxes to allow reply by email

This is a snapshot of our experience running production-grade apps and a capable, supportive team for the long haul. Your experience and background will join ours! We have worlds to learn and we’re eager to do it together. You can expect to teach us, coach us, and expect the same in return. Backend development Our team deploys new code many times a day, and we try to maintain a high uptime for the production application. As a team, we’re firmly focused on the web: the core technology that powers our applications on all platforms. It’s hard to pin down a name for this stack, but it’s a majestic monolith, built using Ruby on Rails. We embrace a “HTML over the wire” architecture, of server-rendered HTML, and “sprinkle” bits of interactive JavaScript. Season with Redis and ElasticSearch, we should have all we’ll ever need. For the foreseeable future anyways. We’re taking a privacy-first approach to customer data and use ActiveRecord Encryption, which aims to make encryption as friendly and intuitive as possible for Rails. Frontend development Our team approaches front-end work from an unorthodox perspective: our architecture is best described as “HTML over the wire.” In contrast to most of the current industry, we are embracing server-side rendered HTML augmented with minimal JavaScript behavior -- Stimulus is our framework of choice when we need to add interactivity. You’ll use the latest web standards in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and modern technologies and frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Stimulus, Hotwire, Elasticsearch and Redis,...