Junior Ruby on Rails Software Engineer

Location: 100% remote
Working time: 75% - 100%, flexible hours

With aktien.guide, we are on a mission to advance the stock culture. We provide private and professional investors with the tools needed to manage risks and achieve above-average returns on invested capital in the long term. We are a small and growing startup with strong customer growth, where all of our team members contribute to and have direct impact on the product.

Responsibilities of a software engineer at aktien.guide include:

• Implementing new and expanding existing customer facing features and backend features with use of background processing - all to develop professional investment tools for private investors
• Applying design and UX changes or implementing modern design and UX for newly built features based on mockups prepared by a designer
• Developing bug fixes, maintaining existing code, keeping the dependencies up-to-date and writing unit tests for any new features or changes
• Working very closely with the Product Owner and actively participating in building our product

We are looking for a person who:

• Is starting their career as a full stack web developer and is comfortable with basics of both Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• Has basic knowledge of CSS or JavaScript (and is willing to learn more)
• Understands (or is willing to learn) background processing
• Wants to work in a small engineering team and participate in building the team and growing our product
• Has a very good command of written and spoken English (B2+)
• Is positive, communicative, is willing to learn fast while being supported by a more experienced engineer to become an independent engineer within 6 months

Why you should apply now

You will work in a unique bootstrap startup atmosphere with many opportunities to share your ideas and introduce them into our product. You will play an important role in fixing one of the largest challenges we face - enabling stock investments for everyone. If this gets you fired up, just like it does for all of us at aktien.guide, then reach out!

If you join aktien.guide, in the future you could be a part of:

• expanding our product into different countries
• creating a variety of new features using modern design and UX
• adding integrations with financial systems and 3rd party data providers
• allowing users to customise their aktien.guide experience
• improving user onboarding journey

Sounds interesting? Send us an email with your CV to info@aktien.guide to apply.