Infield
Safer, faster dependency upgrades
Software Engineer - Rails
About the role
Infield helps software teams keep their open source dependencies up to date. We’re automating away the tedious work of reading changelogs, assessing risk, and fixing breaking changes so software teams can focus on shipping features. We’re a small team of repeat founders passionate about making open source easier to use. We are seed funded and have customers ranging from scaling startups to public companies.
We’re looking for a software engineer to help upgrade Ruby on Rails applications for our customers. In this role you’ll be responsible for jumping into large codebases (we work with some of the largest Rails apps on the planet) and fixing breaking changes. You’ll use what you learn to improve our own software platform as we work towards our goal of automating all dependency upgrades.
What we use
- Ruby on Rails for the web application
- React & SCSS for the frontend
- PostgreSQL for data storage
- Hosting and deployment on Docker + AWS
What you’ll need
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent
- Professional experience with Ruby, Python, and relational databases
- Experience with client-side technologies: HTML/CSS, JavaScript, a frontend view framework
- Comfort with basic computer science concepts: data structures, algorithms, etc.
- Comfort in Unix userland environment: grep, pipes, vim/emacs, etc.
- Comfort with package managers: bundler, npm, yarn, etc.
- Interest in entire product design and development process
What We’d Like
- Experience with React, Typescript, and SCSS
- Experience contributing to or maintaining an open source package
- Experience writing command line tools
About Infield
Infield helps software teams keep their open source dependencies up to date. We’re automating away the toilsome work of reading changelogs, assessing risk, and upgrading packages so that software teams can focus on shipping features. We’re a small team of repeat founders passionate about making open source easier to use.
