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Senior Rails Programmer ID-11440

We're a small team working on Basecamp, HEY and its Calendar, ONCE, and new greenfield products at 37signals. Just ten Ruby programmers total. Doing all this product work plus a steady stream of new open source frameworks and tools. And we're now looking for a new product programmer to join the team.

Everyone says that they only "hire the best", but by definition, most of them must be full of it. Less because they're lying, more because most companies just can't discern quality. That's what happens at feature factories: endless Jira tickets flow from non-technical product managers, and shipping something, anything against that backlog is all that matters.

That's not how we work at 37signals.

We don't actually have any dedicated middle managers. The day-to-day supervision of new team members is being done by other programmers serving as mentors, and by working together with designers to ship the cycle work.

In addition, we believe in the magic of just letting Managers of One do their job through long stretches of uninterrupted time. It's incredible how much progress you can make when your calendar isn't stuffed full of pointless meetings with pointy-haired bosses, and you get to collaborate with incredibly talented, passionate people who thrive on shipping great software.

That's what we care about here: great software. That means great for everyone. Great for customers, but also great for the programmers programming it and the designers designing it. Beautiful code. Making our own tools. Compressing complexity. It quickly gets corny, but craftsmanship and care of code still does exist in this world — it's not all just AI slop.

Inspired yet? If so, here's a bit more of who we're looking for in this round: A senior product programmer with Ruby on Rails experience. Someone who can imagine themselves as a manager of one, and is comfortable working remotely. We don't put a lot of weight on educational pedigree at this end of the seniority scale, but on finding someone smart, who gets things done, and write prose and code with care and eloquence.

This role is specifically for product work. So you could be working alongside a designer on adding new features to Basecamp and HEY one cycle, then working on a brand new product in the next three. You'll dedicate time to addressing issues to make sure our apps are robust and our codebase is weed free. We also occasionally rotate people back and forth between product work and our SIP team (security/infrastructure/performance — where a lot of the open-source tool making happens).


Here are some real examples of the work the product team has done lately:

 

This is a remote job, but we're only looking for people based in the Americas or Europe to ensure your work day overlaps with our existing team.

We respect everyone's right to participate in political expression and activism, but avoid having political debates on our internal communication systems. 37signals as a company also does not weigh in on politics publicly, outside of topics directly related to our business. You should be at peace with both of these stances.


Pay & Benefits


37signals pays in the top 10% of the industry based on San Francisco rates. Same position, same pay, no matter where you live. The salary for Senior Programmers is 201,980 USD. Applicants from outside the US will be offered a contractor role with comparable terms and at the same rate of pay as our US-based employees.

We're hiring at the senior level because everyone starts at the senior level or below here, regardless of professional pedigree. It takes time to get up to speed, technically and culturally. If you're a fast learner and soon able to contribute at a higher level, we're quick to recognize that and promote.  

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