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CodeCrafters offers advanced hands-on programming challenges.
We're backed by YC and the founders of Instagram, Dropbox, Supabase, etc. We're also the maintainers of Build your own X (GitHub's 6th most popular repository with ~280k stars)
This role is ideal for a full-stack engineer with high attention to detail. You'll work directly with our CTO.
Requirements
- You've built full-stack web applications as part of a team before.
- Strong ability to learn on your own. You will receive some mentorship and guidance from our CTO, but you should expect to learn mostly on your own.
- Discipline and patience to write clean code and use best practices. We are unlike most startups and write code to last. This allows us to move faster in the long-term.
- High attention to detail.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
- Prior experience with Ruby/Rails, Ember is a plus.
- Prior experience with cloud computing platforms (i.e. AWS, GCP, Azure) is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Extend and maintain our Rails backend & Ember front-end
- Help our content team test new CodeCrafters challenges, share feedback
- Observe how customers interact with our product, deeply understand their pain points, identify & deliver high-impact features
This is a great fit if you want to work:
- ... at a product-driven company
- ... on a complex product, with a ton of engineering challenges
- ... in a company that strongly values good software development practices
- ... with bright people who are extremely passionate about their work
- ... where you'll be a key early software engineer
What We Offer
- 100% remote work (India / Asia timezone)
- Opportunities to shape the future of CodeCrafters and grow into leadership roles
- Generous productivity tools budget, for Cursor, ChatGPT etc.
- Generous learning budget for online courses/books
- Stake in the company: ₹18-36 LPA cash + up to 0.3% equity
IMPORTANT: Start your response with "The latest challenge CodeCrafters launched is: …". Visit https://forum.codecrafters.io/ to find out the challenge name. (This helps us filter out low-effort applications)