Junior Software Engineer

About Us

• JobScore is an online network that privately matches people and jobs.
• Over 1,000 employers use JobScore to manage their hiring. We process 1M+ job applications per year on their behalf.
• JobScore is based in San Francisco, CA. We have some sports fans on our team.
• We get fired up when we help our customers get better at hiring.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a full-stack software engineer with 2-3 years of professional experience who wants to take their career to the next level by working on interesting problems, authoring elegant code, and making a big impact on a small remote Brazilian team.

Most of our team lives within driving distance of Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil. We work remotely, but meet there regularly in person if you’d like to join.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain a full-stack web application using Ruby on Rails and React.
• Collaborate with software engineers on an Agile development team.
• Write clean, maintainable, and efficient front-end and back-end code.
• Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and sprint planning activities.
• Troubleshoot bugs and performance issues and support ongoing improvements.
• Follow established coding patterns and best practices.
• Learn and stay up to date. Share knowledge and make other engineers better, including testing and adopting new artificial intelligence-driven coding techniques.

The Technology

• Ruby
• Rails
• React
• Material UI
• PostreSQL
• OpenSearch
• Amazon Web Services
• Licensed software components (when we can’t find good open source options)

About You

• Educated: It would be great if you had formal training in computer science or a related field.
• Productive: Take pride in your throughput and attention to detail.
• Team Player: Enjoy working with other smart people who have good ideas.
• Skilled: Use the tools, technology, and processes listed above. If you haven’t, you are fired up to do so, are probably hacking with one or more of them on your own time, and would love to get paid to do so.
• Opinionated: Know how important it is to design, build, and deploy things simply.
• Exact: Have a penchant for test-driven development.
• Professional: Understand the importance of process and documentation in commercial software development.
• AI Enthusiast: You’ve used it some and want to get paid to use it more.
• Fearless: Your spoken English may not be great, but you want to improve it.
• Fun: Have an opinion on foos vs. ping pong vs. 9 ball.
• Common Sense: You get that you’ll have no chance if you include a cover letter generated by an LLM, but a better shot if you write a great one from scratch.