Junior Software Engineer

<p>As a junior software engineer at Clerky, you will:<br></p><ul><li>Maintain and add features to our Middleman and Gitbook sites</li><li>Maintain our builds and continuous integration setups</li><li>Investigate bugs and sporadic test failures</li><li>Implement features and fix bugs in our main application</li><li>Work with top-notch senior engineers (all of us have 10+ years experience)</li></ul><p>This is a great fit if you want to work:<br></p><ul><li>... at a product-driven company bringing an old-fashioned industry into the future</li><li>... on a complex product, with a ton of engineering challenges</li><li>... on a well-loved product with a lot of usage and visibility in the startup community</li><li>... in a company that strongly values good software development practices</li><li>... at a financially sound company</li><li>... with bright people who are extremely passionate about their work</li><li>... where you'll be a key early software engineer</li></ul><p>Notes on our stack and process:<br></p><ul><li>Our backend is mostly in Ruby on Rails, with very small amounts of Scala and Go as well.</li><li>Our front-end is mostly in Ember.</li><li>We use CI extensively for linting, tests, visual diffs, and deployment.</li><li>We're not religious about any particular technology - we believe in using the right tool for a given problem.</li></ul>

<p></p><ul><li>Strong ability to learn on your own. You will receive some mentorship and guidance from our senior software engineers, but you should expect to learn mostly on your own.</li><li>Discipline and patience to write clean code and use best practices. We are unlike most startups and write code to last - we do not rapidly iterate on prototypes.</li></ul><p></p>