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AliveShoes is seeking a skilled back-end developer to enhance their innovative shoe design platform. The role involves using Ruby on Rails and AWS to develop software solutions, monitor user experiences, and contribute to a fast-paced startup environment. Candidates with a passion for fashion-tech are encouraged to apply through an informal video introduction.
AliveShoes gives talented and creative people all over the world the professional resources to design their own custom shoes and launch a shoe line from scratch.
Our community is international, made of designers, Artists, students, creative people and shoe lovers.
Our mission is to support and nurture them, so to help them achieving their dream of launching their own shoe line.
Our production is handled in Italy in the biggest and most prestigious shoe design and development cluster in the world called The Shoe valley (Located in Le Marche, Italy).
We are leading the biggest revolution in the footwear industry of the last 20 years. Joining us means to be at the upfront avant-garde of fashion-tech.
Job Description
The AliveShoes platform is made by 2 pieces :
1 / The first one is the main user-facing platform, that includes the onboarding website, the shoe-building tools, the ecommerce platform, the user dashboards.
2 / The second one is the internal dashboard that track users, products, data, supply chain and manage content.
You'll be working on both pieces, improving the actual website, and building new features to improve the platform, the internal processes and data collection.
You will develop back-end parts of the platform using the web stack Ruby / Ruby on Rails / PostgreSQL / Nginx / AWS
You will monitor a huge user base, collect data points using Google Analytics or MixPanel and improve internal dashboards.
You will perform scalability and maintainability software improvements in order to increase the performance of the applications.
You will perform manual user testing and you will be using user testing software to improve the UI of the website
Requirements
You have strong back-end skills using Ruby and Ruby on Rails
You have some experience with AWS
You have experience with PostgreSQL (or similar)
You have experience with JQuery
You have a bachelor in computer science or equivalent knowledge in software design.
You are eager to learn new programming languages, new technologies and you have an experimental bias
Details
We normally review applications weekly. If we find a fit we will get back to you in less than a week.
The first part of the process involve an initial skype call.
The second part of the process will be a 1-2 day full working day with us. We will fly you from whenever you are located and reimburse reasonable expenses.
The hiring period is divided in two phases, a 3 month trial period, and a 1 year to 3 years contract after the trial.
For this position you will get about gross 4.000$ / month for the 3 month trial, and about gross 5000$ / month for the contract (this may vary based on the experience). You can get a workstation of your choice. One paid all-inclusive travel a year to a tech event. Possibility to work in the US at times. Possibility to work from remote, when the situation makes it possible.
You will also get a package of shares in the American holding company, with 3 years vesting period, if your trial will be successfull.
The job is based in Italy (Le Marche / Milan), with possible travels to USA and Europe, with also the possibility to work from remote.
All travel expenses are paid by the company (life + travel, including accommodation ).
Notes
AliveShoes is a startup, that means we go fast, we don't follow the standard rules a, we are hands-on and we do lots of extra job. We look for exceptional people with plenty of energy, lot's of ambition that strive for excellence. If you want to start an amazing journey in the fashion-technology industry, grow fast and learn a lot in just a few months, give this application your best shot.
Apply for this position REQUIRED
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