Software Engineer, Rails

Software Engineer, Rails - Full Time

The Feed provides athletes with the widest selection of active nutrition and healthy snacks on the market today. We use science, our experience, and advice from athletes to give our customers personalized recommendations for better nutrition. Our e-commerce platform allows customers to learn about nutrition and then build a custom box for one-time or subscription purchase.

We’re looking for a Rails engineer to join our team to build the software that runs our warehouse. Our software handles everything from assembling and shipping an order, inventory management, and production of finished goods like customized cycling water bottles and personalized daily supplement pouch subscriptions. 

The accelerating growth of our business requires a combination of streamlining our process, and integrating with machines to augment our warehouse staff to be more productive. This role will be hands-on in a literal sense, to familiarize yourself with a process or machine in the warehouse to inform what software to write. 

This is a chance to be part of a growing company in an amazing industry. 

The position is based in our Broomfield, Colorado office. We offer flexible work hours and a hybrid schedule. Being on-site is important for understanding the impact of software on the warehouse.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Enhance and maintain our existing in-house warehouse management system (WMS)
  • Rails monolith
  • Sidekiq worker
  • HTML and JS ERB frontend
• Control machines used for production and fulfillment
  • Pill supplement pouch packaging machines
  • Goods-to-person robotic rack system
  • Custom water bottle design printer
  • Production-grade Xerox printer for personalized customer booklets and inserts
  • Conveyor and automation systems
  • + discovering and implementing the next things to improve our customer experience and enhance the productivity of our fulfillment employees.
• Build and develop domain-specific apps
  • Formulas App: backend for customer supplement subscription
  • Variable Data Print: backend for customer-facing 3D water bottle design preview
• Integrate with 3rd-party APIs
  • Shopify & 3rd-party sales channels
  • Shipping Services
  • Inventory forecasting
  • Dashboards & data analysis
• Troubleshoot issues as they arise across any of our platforms.
   
• Be actively involved in large, strategic technology initiatives.

Ideal Qualities:

• Self-directed with the ability to take a feature from concept to deployment. Handling everything spanning architecture to user-facing design.
• Enjoys talking to users and seeking critical feedback. We see our users in the breakroom and on the warehouse floor.
• Mindset to re-think the existing codebase and challenge industry norms from first principles.
• Emphasizes impact over sophistication. Writing excellent code is critical, though what it accomplishes is far more important than how it works.
• Systems-oriented perspective.

Requirements

• Strong engineering experience building web applications. 
• Proficiency in Ruby and Javascript.
• NodeJS experience preferred.

Compensation 

• $90,000 - $130,000 per year based on experience
• Generous Stock Option Program
• Employee store discount

Benefits 

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401k
•  Paid time off and paid holidays
• Health and wellness allowance
• Employee store discount

Equal Opportunity Employer:

At The Feed, we know that athletes come from all different backgrounds, and we are here to support them by having a diverse team. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.