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Shopify / Ruby on Rails Full-stack dev

Zipchat
Full-time
Remote
Europe
$70,000 - $100,000 USD yearly

About us

  • We’re building an AI agent for e-commerce - Zipchat.ai
  • We believe the LLM revolution will change the way humanity shops. We’re trying to figure out how exactly.
  • We work with hundreds of brands, are default-alive, and are focused on innovating in the AI/Ecom space.
  • We have a Shopify app, a WhatsApp app, but we’re building on top of open standards so we can support all kinds of merchants.

Ideal candidate

  • Productive in our Tech stack: 
    • Ruby on Rails 💎
    • Hotwire / ViewComponent ⚡
    • APIs REST/GraphQL
    • Experience with Shopify or Meta’s APIs is a plus ➕
  • Communication 
    • English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 - able to communicate without friction
    • Proactivity - able to communicate issues proactively, unstuck themselves, and work as a team
    • Works in EU timezone 🕣
  • Mindset 
    • Ownership - wants to take responsibility
    • Product - able to build things that people want, and ship from 0 to 1
    • Hackerman - we work with a lot of 3rd parties, should be able to jump through hoops and find ways around walls
    • Embrace the chaos - prioritise shipping value to customers, not clean code. Make your mama proud, not your fellow dev buddies! 🤘

What you’ll be doing

  • Implementing business logic features
  • Implementing UI ( customer side/merchant/admin )
  • Handling integrations with Shopify, Meta, etc.

Why join

  • Get equity in the business
  • Freedom to build things your way
  • See your impact in real time → fast feedback loop
  • Be part of a small startup that has high ambitions

Why not join

  • We’re not a very social type of workplace - everyone works in their own lane, and we sync ad/hoc
  • You’ll be expected to ship 🚢🚢🚢

Work process

  • We try to push to prod every day. 
    • We take “Ship fast and break things” to heart.
    • Also, “monitor your own stuff and make sure you fix things if you break something” 🙂
    • Innovation velocity is our number one priority. We have no idea what will be useful to merchants and what won’t be, so we try to ship → collect feedback → ship → etc
  • We’re a micro team 
    • We’re currently 3 founders, one of whom is technical.
    • You’ll be working alongside the tech founder.
  • You have the freedom to work however you like 
    • We’re fully remote
    • There’s no working time ( CET is our anchor time )
    • You’re expected to spend ~30 productive hours* per week on the project
    • Nobody cares if you moonlight, have a side hustle, or you like to surf during the day - just do your job
  • You will be writing code 99% of the time, no bureaucracy 
    • We have no meetings unless necessary ( async chat or Loom is preferred )
    • We have no planning, no deadlines, no sprints, and no methodologies → We take the next task and try to ship it ASAP
  • You figure things out, no babysitting 
    • You’ll be presented with “shaped”** features ( not too concrete, not too vague specs )
    • You’ll need to figure out how to build them following our product philosophy
    • Nobody will babysit you, you’ll need to get things done or ask for help proactively

*Productive work hours - Hours spent actually working. We use Toggl to track our time.**Shaped features - See https://basecamp.com/shapeup/1.1-chapter-02)

Compensation

  • $70,000 - $100,000 / year ( before tax )
  • Stock options ( Delaware C-corp )

Hiring process

  • Submit form
  • Get to know you call ( 30-60 min ) 
    • See if we like each other and if we might be a good fit or not
  • 2hr coding session ( with screen recorder )
  • 2 week paid contract ( $2k ) 
    • We believe the only way to see if we’re a good fit is to do some work together
    • We’ll hire you for 2 weeks, see what we can achieve together
    • After, both sides can decide if they wish to continue working
  • Reference checkContract sign