Context Travel

Senior Rails Developer, Hotwire, Shape-up

Context Travel

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

HerokuJavaScriptOpen SourcePostgresRubyRuby on Rails

About the role

  • Welcome to Context Travel! Context Travel is a provider of cultural & historical tours in over 50 world capitals. We’re completely changing the way cultural travel works - as experiences move from an afterthought to the center of a trip. We have a really special product that has impacted thousands of lives. We've been a certified B Corp since 2011 and pioneer in responsible approaches to business practice and travel. We try hard to be a flat organization and idea meritocracy. We care deeply about the employee experience and helping team members achieve their goals & be their best at Context. All of our full-time employees are also shareholders. Our Team: We’re a tiny, senior-leaning team that ships end-to-end on a modern yet 15+ years old Rails monolith (Rails 8 + Hotwire). We practice Shape Up - from framing to shaping to betting to building and back to framing. You’ll work closely with product (no ticket waterfalls), own meaningful chunk of work across the stack, and watch your work land with real travelers and experts. We’re remote-first with at least 4 hours of overlap with U.S. Eastern Time. No meetings by default. We pair when it’s useful, write just-enough tests, and practice proof-before-posture: we say it after we’ve shown it in the field. This Role: We’re hiring a seasoned senior full-stack developer with strong product instincts. You have deep experience with Ruby on Rails as a full-stack framework, plus strong fluency in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. We run a majestic Rails monolith (Rails 8) with Hotwire - enjoying the leverage of a one-person framework. We deploy on Heroku via pipelines, use GitHub Actions for CI, and maintain UAT and production environments with a pragmatic testing strategy.

Requirements

  • You’re positive, thoughtful, and compassionate - and a clear writer (or intent on becoming one). You’re a self-manager. We shape projects with clear problems and appetites (not ticket waterfalls), and you lead the trade-offs needed to ship. You’re product-minded: work isn’t “done” until it lands, is observable, and changes outcomes. You contribute technical shaping up front - so product leads can make sound trade-offs and scope projects appropriately. You’ve built and maintained production web applications on Ruby on Rails. You’ve scaled web applications and maintained high availability and uptime. You have a solid grasp of OO design principles. You value automated tests and practice TDD where it fits. You understand the full web stack - databases (PostgreSQL), background jobs, caching, observability, and performance. You’re comfortable with Git and GitHub Flow. You’ve built and maintained CI/CD pipelines (we use GitHub Actions + Heroku). We’re remote-first. We ask for at least a 4-hour overlap with U.S. Eastern Time (ET). We’re a lean team: you’ll ship across the stack, pair when useful, and favor small, end-to-end iterations. Bonus Points: You’ve built (or meaningfully explored) Hotwire-based applications (Turbo, Stimulus). You’ve contributed to open source. You practice - or are open to - pair programming. You’re familiar with Shape Up (appetite-based planning, shaped work, bet cycles). P.S. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds. P.P.S. We’re not able to sponsor visas or work permits at this time.