Staff Software Engineer || Remote, US-based || Ruby on Rails experience required

About Buoy Software

Our mission is to deliver the best experience possible to as many donors of blood products (such as plasma) as possible, in as many communities as possible. We use our understanding of blood product donation and the industry’s regulations and pair them with our extensive consumer product experience to enrich the lives of our members and improve health outcomes for patients everywhere.

In an industry that hasn’t seen innovation in more than two decades, Buoy’s software streamlines the donation process allowing our business to promote loyalty while improving efficiency in a donation center. In turn, the increase in blood product donations improves a supply level that is at an all time low, and allows for blood-product derived biotherapies to continue to evolve, improve, and save lives for those who face life-threatening conditions (i.e. immune deficiencies and blood disorders). Without an increase in blood product donations, we are facing a worldwide health crisis that ultimately results in rationing of care without the proper resources. Buoy Software is excited to be playing more of a role in improving the state of blood products and blood product donations.

We’re working alongside Join Parachute (www.joinparachute.com/) in the opening of small market donation centers across the country that will create local donation center careers, opportunities to donate blood products, and provide financial compensation for those donations that will have a positive economic impact in those communities.

The need for blood products is growing rapidly. We want to close the gap in blood product supply and demand by empowering organizations with the right tools. Buoy is the intuitive, data-driven mobile application for donors.

About The Role

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer (full stack) to join our team. You should be someone who is comfortable and experienced in a full stack role. You should be proud of your code. You should enjoy building simple solutions to complex problems, and shipping quickly in an agile environment.

This position will be a fully remote position. We are currently open to considering remote candidates based in the United States.

Employment at Buoy Software is contingent upon achievement of satisfactory results on your background check and reference check and your ability to provide proof of your identity and eligibility to accept employment in the United States.

As a Staff Engineer, you will...

• Own and develop product features end-to-end including scoping, architecting, coding, testing, and rolling out features
• Develop your skills and knowledge in your product area and our tech stack
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team
• Solve technical problems of the highest scope and complexity for your team
• Exert influence on the overall objectives and long-range goals of your team
• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment; maintain and advocate for these standards through code review
• Provide mentorship for Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy
• Confidently ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members
• Collaborate with the team on larger projects
• Embody Buoy's principles and values in every aspect of your work; representing Buoy and its values in communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions
• Participate in your teams on-call rotation
• Work on a distributed, fully remote team

What we are looking for in Staff Engineer candidates...

• Experience building web applications end-to-end in a technical stack similar to Tailwind, React, Ruby on Rails, GraphQL and Postgres. Ruby on Rails is required.
• Experience working on all parts of the stack (frontend, backend, anything in between).
• Sees software engineering as a craft.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Desire to work autonomously, but will also collaborate and pair with other engineers.
• High empathy -- you care about your teammates and our users and you can put yourself in their shoes.

In the first 30 days, you will...

• Learn how engineering operates at Buoy Software - we’ll help you get accustomed to Buoy’s process, terminology, and code review. You’ll shadow team members in meetings and coding.
• Be introduced to the team - we’ll help you start to get to know your colleagues, point of contacts for various scenarios, understanding dynamics within your pod and the broader engineering org.
• Go through product demos to start to understand Buoy Software and how it works for both donors experience and donor processing.
• Begin meeting with and getting to know your direct manager.
• Attend pair programming sessions with other team or pod members.
• Hit the ground running, picking up a ticket during your first week.

In the first 60 days, you will...

• Become more familiar with how we work together as a pod and as a broader engineering organization.
• Become more familiar with workflows and processes, and how Buoy Software does agile.
• Understand goals for the product over the next 6 - 12 months.
• Become more and more autonomous as you work with your pod to deliver successful features.
• Begin to suggest changes and improvements to the product and/or internal processes.

In the first 90 days, you will...

• Meet with stakeholders across the broader Buoy Software organization.
• Become more familiar with the other departments across Buoy Software (including leadership, support, customer success, marketing, and people ops).
• Ship multiple successful features.

Where you'll be

We are fully remote. We deeply believe in distributed teams at Buoy. We build projects around motivated individuals. We give our team the environment, support and trust they need to get the job done.