Remote Jobs at FetLife (2024)

Senior DevOps Engineer

The Job

As a Full Stack Engineer, you'll be working with the product team focusing on building, releasing, and testing new product features. Additionally, we're always looking for ways to improve our codebase to make it more performant and easier to maintain.

Currently, our entire platform is built as a majestic Rails monolith, using Vue.js with Typescript on the front-end.

More details about our tech stack:

• Testing is done with RSpec & Capybara
• Continuous integration and deployment are done with CircleCI
• MySQL and PostgreSQL for our main databases
• ScyllaDB for our activity feeds
• Redis for session storage, queue management, and caching
• ElasticSearch for full-text search
• DevOps using Containers orchestrated with Kubernetes and Helm
• Service and performance monitoring is done with DataDog and NewRelic
• Infrastructure managed with Terraform
• Cloudflare and Fastly as CDN

Here are some past projects we've worked on that might help you get a better idea of what it means to work as a Full Stack Engineer at FetLife:

• Implemented a profile verification system from the ground up using government ID and/or pictures portraying a certain gesture
• Added discussion pre-moderation for groups
• Added support for installing FetLife as aProgressive Web App
• Improved the efficiency of our Activity Feed Deliveries by splitting longer feed event deliveries into smaller async jobs and prioritizing delivery to more recently active members
• Introduced the possibility of tagging other members in pictures, videos, and writings
• Added powerful filtering to our on-site reporting system using ElasticSearch
• Improved location privacy for all our members by introducing granular location privacy settings
• Integrate Machine Learning solutions todetect age or potentially illegal content

About you

We're looking for someone who has proven experience building and maintaining large production-level Ruby on Rails applications in the past.

Ideally, you have experience:

• Working with a modern front-end framework (ideally Vue)
• Writing semantic JavaScript and (or) Typescript
• Working with Redis, MySQL or PostgreSQL
• Writing unit and integration tests using RSpec and Capybara

Additionally, since we're 100% remote, we:

• Highly value strong written communicators
• Require three hours overlap any time between 10 AM and 6 PM CET

About Us

FetLife is the largest kinky social network on this side of the Milky Way. We:

• Have over 10 million members and growing
• Grew 100% by word-of-mouth
• Serve over 1.5 billion requests a day

You can find our team and core valueshere.

Pay & Benefits

We use a standardised salary calculator for each position to ensure we are competitive, fair, and consistent. For this specific role, the rate is between $115k-$170k USD / year.

Additionally, we offer:

• Paid time off:
  • 2 weeks vacation
  • 5 statutory holidays (e.g. Easter & Thanksgiving)
  • 2 weeks during Christmas
  • 4-day workweeks during the summer months (July & August)
• Annual company retreat (e.g. Malaga, Miami, Vancouver, and Montreal)
• Annual anniversary gift (200$ USD for every year with us, e.g. 4th anniversary is $800)
• Monthly streaming music subscription reimbursem*nt
• Fully paid maternity and paternity leave

The Job

As a DevOps Engineer, you'll be working with the engineering team to monitor and improve our security, infrastructure, and performance.

You'll be responsible for:

• Elevating our DevOps standards through improved monitoring, tooling, and processes
• Planning and performing infrastructure improvements and maintenance
• Monitoring and improving website stability and response times
• Monitoring and improving email deliverability
• Participating in the on-call rotation
• Triaging, replicating, and fixing potential security issues
• Maintaining high CI build success rates and low CI build run times

Currently, our entire platform is built as a majestic Rails monolith, using Vue.js with Typescript on the front-end.

More details about our tech stack:

• Testing is done with RSpec & Capybara
• Continuous integration and deployment are done with CircleCI
• MySQL and PostgreSQL for our main databases
• ScyllaDB for our activity feeds
• Redis for session storage, queue management, and caching
• ElasticSearch for full-text search
• DevOps using Containers orchestrated with Kubernetes and Helm
• Service and performance monitoring is done with DataDog and NewRelic
• Infrastructure managed with Terraform
• Cloudflare and Fastly as CDN

About You

We're looking for someone who has proven experience building and maintaining large production-level Ruby on Rails applications.

Ideally, you have experience:

• Working with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Redis
• Rails application development
• Optimizing DB and Rails application performance
• Maintaining infrastructure with Docker, Kubernetes, and Google Cloud

Additionally, since we're 100% remote, we:

• Highly value strong written communicators
• Require three hours overlap any time between 10 AM and 6 PM CET

About Us

FetLife is the largest kinky social network on this side of the Milky Way. We:

• Have over 10 million members and growing
• Grew 100% by word-of-mouth
• Serve over 1.5 billion requests a day

You can find our team and core valueshere.

Pay & Benefits

We use a standardised salary calculator for each position to ensure we are competitive, fair, and consistent. For this specific role, the rate is between $115k-$170k USD / year.

Additionally, we offer:

• Paid time off:
  • 2 weeks vacation
  • 5 statutory holidays (e.g. Easter & Thanksgiving)
  • 2 weeks during Christmas
  • 4-day workweeks during the summer months (July & August)
• Annual company retreat (e.g. Malaga, Miami, Vancouver, and Montreal)
• Annual anniversary gift (200$ USD for every year with us, e.g. 4th anniversary is $800)
• Monthly streaming music subscription reimbursem*nt
• Fully paid maternity and paternity leave

Senior DevOps Engineer

The Job

As a Full Stack Engineer, you'll be working with the product team focusing on building, releasing, and testing new product features. Additionally, we're always looking for ways to improve our codebase to make it more performant and easier to maintain.

Currently, our entire platform is built as a majestic Rails monolith, using Vue.js with Typescript on the front-end.

More details about our tech stack:

• Testing is done with RSpec & Capybara
• Continuous integration and deployment are done with CircleCI
• MySQL and PostgreSQL for our main databases
• ScyllaDB for our activity feeds
• Redis for session storage, queue management, and caching
• ElasticSearch for full-text search
• DevOps using Containers orchestrated with Kubernetes and Helm
• Service and performance monitoring is done with DataDog and NewRelic
• Infrastructure managed with Terraform
• Cloudflare and Fastly as CDN

About you

We're looking for someone who has proven experience building and maintaining large production-level Ruby on Rails applications in the past.

Ideally, you have experience:

• Working with a modern front-end framework (ideally Vue)
• Writing semantic JavaScript and (or) Typescript
• Working with Redis, MySQL or PostgreSQL
• Writing unit and integration tests using RSpec and Capybara

Additionally, since we're 100% remote, we:

• Highly value strong written communicators
• Require three hours overlap any time between 10 AM and 6 PM CET

About Us

FetLife is the largest kinky social network on this side of the Milky Way. We:

• Have over 10 million members and growing
• Grew 100% by word-of-mouth
• Serve over 1.5 billion requests a day

You can find our team and core valueshere.

Pay & Benefits

We use a standardised salary calculator for each position to ensure we are competitive, fair, and consistent. For this specific role, the rate is between $115k-$170k USD / year.

Additionally, we offer:

• Paid time off:
  • 2 weeks vacation
  • 5 statutory holidays (e.g. Easter & Thanksgiving)
  • 2 weeks during Christmas
  • 4-day workweeks during the summer months (July & August)
• Annual company retreat (e.g. Malaga, Miami, Vancouver, and Montreal)
• Annual anniversary gift (200$ USD for every year with us, e.g. 4th anniversary is $800)
• Monthly streaming music subscription reimbursem*nt
• Fully paid maternity and paternity leave

Senior DevOps Engineer

The Role

As a Growth Product Manager at FetLife you’ll focus on optimizing forproduct-led growthso that the productit*elfattracts and retains members.

You will be responsible for:

• Developing, implementing and following up on strategies to improve activation, retention and engagement
• Identifying growth opportunities and creating hypotheses for optimization experiments
• Obsessing over how we can drive more value from our existing product
• Understanding member needs, experiences, and mental models
• Reducing friction in our member experience
• Maintaining and reporting on growth metrics
• Working closely with the team to ensure quick implementation of different growth strategies

About you

We're looking for someone who has a proven track record of driving measurable improvements to member or customer activation, retention, and/or engagement.

You have experience with:

• Measurably improving the retention, activation and engagement of web or mobile apps
• Effectively prioritizing projects based on their potential impact
• Successfully launching and efficiently iterating over web or mobile products

Additionally, since we're 100% remote, we:

• Highly value strong written communicators
• Require at least three hours overlap any time between 10 AM and 6 PM CET

About Us

FetLife is the largest kinky social network on this side of the Milky Way. We:

• Have over 10 million members and growing
• Grew 100% by word-of-mouth
• Serve over 1.5 billion requests a day

You can find our team and core valueshere.

Pay & Benefits

We use a standardised salary calculator for each position to ensure we are competitive, fair, and consistent. For this specific role, the rate is between $162k-$210k USD / year.

Additionally, we offer:

• Paid time off:
  • 2 weeks vacation
  • 5 statutory holidays (e.g. Easter & Thanksgiving)
  • 2 weeks during Christmas
  • 4-day workweeks during the summer months (July & August)
• Annual company retreat (e.g. Malaga, Miami, Vancouver, and Montreal)
• Annual anniversary gift (200$ USD for every year with us, e.g. 4th anniversary is $800)
• Monthly streaming music subscription reimbursem*nt
• Fully paid maternity and paternity leave