Context Travel

Backend Engineer

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.

Senior Rails Developer, Hotwire, Shape-up