Staff Software Developer

This is a frontend and UX leadership role. You’ll work directly in Rails views using Hotwire, Turbo, Stimulus, and Tailwind to simplify complex workflows and create intuitive user experiences.

You’ll help shape frontend patterns across the product, and turn our powerful, interconnected systems into intuitive experiences that are fast, clear, and approachable.

This role is high-context, high-collaboration, and high-impact. You’ll define patterns, raise the quality bar across the product, and influence how the entire Engineering, Product & Design team thinks about user experience. Everyone at BackerKit is customer-facing, and we expect everyone to get to know the creators and backers that we serve (plus, they are awesome, just like you!).

How we build

We iterate quickly, ship small experiments, and learn from customers. We are a pairing shop who uses Claude Code, practices TDD, works in one-week iterations, and ships multiple times a day.

We are small-a agile, which means no component of our process is sacrosanct. Weekly retrospectives (among other things) help make sure that our processes evolve as we do. We value communication and shared ownership over rigid roles. As one of our most senior folks, we hope you’ll contribute thoughtfully to those discussions and experiments, bringing your unique experience to bear.