We welcome applicants based anywhere in Europe.
About Reedsy
We’re here to give authors the tools and resources they need to create beautiful books. Our marketplace gathers the industry's best publishing professionals — the likes of Neil Gaiman's editor, Nora Roberts' book marketer, and GRRM’s cover designer.
We’ve grown to a community of 5,000,000 authors, and transformed the way people write and publish their book. Want to hop on board and help us get to our next destination? Cool, keep reading!
Responsibilities
Our objective is to build the best ecosystem for writers, providing support at any stage of their journey. We have built a number of products at Reedsy over the years, including a marketplace, a book discovery platform, a writing app, a central authentication system, an email marketing app and many more. We have ambitious new features in the pipeline for each of those and we need your help!
Here's what you'll be doing:
Architect and develop highly scalable web applications;
Work closely with our designers and engineers to design, build, and ship new features from scratch;
Evaluate and improve the performance, durability, and security of applications in production;
Take ownership for your tasks and see features through from start to finish;
Build RESTful APIs.
5+ years with Ruby on Rails at production level
Experience with SQL (MySQL) and NoSQL (Redis) databases
Unit tests (RSpec) and QA testing tools and techniques
Git advanced knowledge
Strong emphasis with Object Oriented Design and Design Patterns
Perfectly fluent in English, great communication skills
Experience working remotely
Bonus points
Experience with Elasticsearch
Experience with deployment automation tools
Experience building production-grade applications integrating LLMs
A good dose of ambition, a willingness to learn, and a great sense of humor
Work from home;
Paid paternal and maternal leave;
Annual team retreat
Salary range:
€60k – €100k
Top Skills
What We Do
A friendly place for authors to learn, create and market the best indie books:
Reedsy is an award-winning community of over 1,000,000 authors and publishing professionals. Our mission is to help authors create high-quality books by connecting them with the world's best editors, designers, marketers or ghostwriters.
Since our launch in 2014 we have been developing a number of resources for authors to learn about writing craft and publishing (blog.reedsy.com) and for professionals to develop their freelance career (blog.reedsy.com/freelancer).
In 2019 we launched Reedsy Discovery (reedsy.com/discovery) to give the best indie books the exposure they deserve.
Reedsy is a fully remote company with a diverse team of 40, coming from 15 different countries.
⛰ Read about our co-founder Matt spending 3 months living and working from the Alps: https://www.businessinsider.com/i-live-and-work-in-my-car-heres-how-2018-5
