BackerKit is the best way for crowdfunding creators to manage their backers, help fulfill their campaign on time, and allow them to focus on what they love doing—making something awesome! We've helped thousands of creators to raise over $115M, supporting them in everything from surveys to shipping.

What we’re looking for in a developer:

You enjoy the feeling of accomplishment that comes with deploying code just as much as you appreciate a tough technical challenge.

One of your goals as a developer is to teach your skill set to others. You’ve spent a lot of time honing your skills, now it’s time to give back to less experienced team members and get them performing up to their potential.

You love to pair. We pair close to 100% of the time. We use this time to teach, learn, and to get things done. You’re comfortable with managing these sessions and ensuring everyone is getting the most out of them.

You’re excited about Ruby on Rails!

What we’re working on:

Solution-oriented platform improvements

Strategic integration with other platforms and providers

Automation of work previously done by creators and BackerKit team members

Creating new tools and products that build on our existing successes

Always new things

What working at BackerKit will look like:

You will make important technical decisions that have sweeping consequences for our customers and the business.

You will work to level up other members of the team as well as working to complete feature work and codebase improvements.

You will provide product input. We are a small team that moves fast, so it is important that you speak your mind and give feedback on how we can make things better/faster/stronger.

You will continue to help the team release early and often. We deploy at least once a day. Frequently more often than that.

You will understand our users. Everyone at BackerKit is customer-facing, and we expect everyone to get to know the project creators we are serving (plus, they are awesome, just like you!).

Skills and experience we'd like you to possess:

4-5+ years experience working on a fairly large Rails application

You are great at communicating. You can easily verbalize problems and ideas with the team.

You have the ability to "look around corners", allowing you to get out in front of problems.

People enjoy working with you because you're great at what you do. Your skill and work ethic encourages the entire team to improve their craft.

You are entrepreneurial. We trust everyone on our team to make bold choices and do what is best to grow the company.

Tech Stack: Ruby (3.3 at time of writing) Ruby on Rails (7.1 at time of writing) Turbo Stimulus Postgres Redis

We deal with a lot of data, both for our users and from our platform which we use internally to make decisions. Some of the challenges we face have to do with capturing and exploring or exposing that data.

We also are in uncharted territory when it comes to building features. We're the market leader in our space and intend to keep it that way. This means we're focused on bringing value in new and creative ways.