Full Stack Software Engineer

Overview

Are you a Full Stack Engineer looking to make an impact at a mission-driven company? Do you thrive in high-autonomy environments? Do you crave a work culture that values your humanity above an arbitrary feature deadline?

Rootable helps grassroots organizations create a more just and less wasteful food system. It provides volunteer logistics software that supports organizations in local resource re/distribution while building collective power to leverage data, influence policy, and invest profits back into our communities. A social enterprise startup cooperatively owned by four Colorado food rescues, the platform centers relationships and local tech ecologies over continuous growth. We’re looking for our first engineering team hire, a full stack engineer to help turn our MVP into a fully-featured platform.

This role will make an impact and provides the opportunity to interact with nonprofits, mutual aid organizations, and activists organizing volunteers. We are looking for a passionate, user-centric full stack engineer that is excited about working on meaningful and complex technical problems that have a positive impact on our users’ lives. You’ll be employee #2.

What you will do:

• Build software for values-based organizations and their communities using Ruby on Rails + React.
• Understand scheduling and timezone challenges intimately.
• Architect, operate and maintain our infrastructure.
• Create software that is reliable, scalable, and maintainable.
• Effectively communicate with team members and member-owners during projects, code reviews, etc.
• Contribute to building our engineering culture and processes as we scale.
• Work with our Product Manager to scope projects and execute on innovative features.
• Participate in the research, design, development, and testing of features.

What you have:

• 10+ years of experience designing, building, shipping, and maintaining complex full-stack software.
• Experience with a startup environment or the ability to operate effectively when faced with ambiguity.
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences and topics.
• Computer science degree or equivalent fundamentals learned elsewhere.
• Fluency in Ruby and JavaScript or a willingness to learn and specialize in these languages.
• Nice to have: Experience in building a worker cooperative or desire to build an equity stake through a worker-member class.

More about Rootable

Join a compassionate and purpose-driven community that value food and climate justice, joy, creativity and care work. Thrive in a flexible remote-friendly environment where caregivers and folks with passions outside their 9 to 5 are encouraged to show up as they are. Rootable is an ideal place for folks looking to experiment with non-traditional ways startup culture might function.

Rootable is incubating under Boulder Food Rescue, a trans-led 501c3 nonprofit. Boulder Food Rescue aims to create a more just and less wasteful food system. BFR facilitates the sustainable redistribution of healthy food that would otherwise be wasted to low-income communities, by bicycle. It works with communities to facilitate their own food redistribution and create decentralized systems to bypass barriers to food access. BFR’s work envisions a world in which everyone has equitable access to healthy food.

What sets Rootable apart is its people power. It is democratically owned and operated by nonprofits and profits go back to the communities that use it. This ownership model allows for a more relationship-based approach to feature development.

What we offer:

• A unique, caring and friendly culture.
• A remote-first working environment. Our headquarters are in Boulder, Colorado and we’re currently accepting applications from US Based applicants.
• Exciting new type of organization built on Cooperative principles.
• Voice in how we build out our benefits as we get more resourced.
• 5 weeks vacation per year
• All federal holidays
• Mental health day every month
• Summer Seasonal Pause – Company-wide week long break in June
• Birthday off
• Paid parental leave
• Sick leave
• HSA
• HRA
• Self-care stipend
• Professional development stipend
• Work from home stipend
• 401k provided, but at this point no company match.

Compensation

• Full Time: $130,000 – $150,000
• Part Time: $65,000 – $85,000
• To find the best person for the job, we are open to hiring EITHER a part time OR a full time developer.

Compensation Philosophy:

Compensation is determined by several factors, including but not limited to the level of professional experience, skills and specific candidate location. To honor our equitable pay system, all staff have access to everyone’s salary information.

Last day to submit applications: April 13th.