Backend Engineer

Who We Are:

Feals (feals.com) is a fast-growing wellness startup with offices in Los Angeles and Denver.

We are a direct-to-consumer CBD brand with a deeply rooted commitment to customer service and helping people feel better.

We offer quality CBD conveniently delivered to your doorstep with a 100% happiness guarantee.

We’re expanding our lean, talented team and are looking for smart and passionate go-getters to join us.

What You’ll Do:

Design, implement and ship features to bring Feals to more people Collaborate with other engineers and designers to provide strong customer-focused offerings Deploy frequent improvements to make our infrastructure more performant, reliable, secure, testable and maintainable Identify and implement core technologies, and remove technical hurdles Write clean, high-quality code and tests while keeping the APIs fast and reliable

Who You Are:

Skillful Coder.

You write algorithms that are efficient, elegant and maintainable.

You can debug issues that trip up your fellow engineers.

Your teammates want you to review their code to help them improve.

Analytical.

You use data and logic to guide your design.

You examine the underlying goals and issues to pinpoint the best solution.

Detail Oriented.

You plan the minute details of your infrastructure so it is prepared for scale and expansion.

You account for all the edge cases your API can encounter.

Your defensive code prevents outages from a partner downtime.

Problem solver.

You find the creative, sustainable, and simple solutions to solve the root of the problems.

Your solutions solve not only the current issues, but build the foundation for the future.

Self-driven.

You are self-motivated, proactive and can autonomously take a project to completion.

You anticipate and jump on the next big opportunity on your own.

Communicator.

You communicate effectively with your team beyond the lines of code you submit.

Your Slack messages, pull request comments, emails and conversations are articulate and comprehensive.

You practice active listening and really hear what people are saying.

Adaptable.

You adapt to the environment around you while continuing to excel.

You learn new skills, workflows and values and incorporate them into your ethos.

Team Player.

You look out for your teammates whether it is deadlines or lunch invites.

You roll up your sleeves to get your hands dirty with the team.

Empathetic.

You listen to your teammates and understand their needs.

You are curious and want to understand how to best help our customers

What You Need:

4+ years experience in developing scalable, stable and maintainable infrastructure and backend services in a fast-paced environment.

Familiarity with Ruby on Rails is an added bonus!

Experience building multi-service infrastructure on GCP or AWS Track record of excellence in operations maintaining a production environment Natural strength in understanding real world user problems and translating them into robust solutions Passion for strong test coverage, understanding of troubleshooting issues, and the ability to plan for scale Big plus if you have experience with Spree, e-commerce or subscriptions engines

Why Feals?

Equity participation Unlimited PTO
– 10 days minimum to keep you fresh Competitive salaries and top quality medical, dental, and vision plans Free ClassPass and other wellness perks A leadership team that embraces creativity and initiative Monthly lunches, team happy hours, quarterly outings, and more!

We are an equal opportunity employer.

We value a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture.

We encourage applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, disability, and veteran status.

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