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Perry Street Software

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2010

👥 B2C

🌍 Social Impact

B2C • Social Impact

Perry Street Software is a software company that builds mobile apps connecting the gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community worldwide. It develops and operates consumer-facing dating and social apps (notably SCRUFF and Jack’d), emphasizes user privacy and safety, and runs community, travel, and outreach features and partnerships that support LGBTQ inclusion and health initiatives. The company blends product development, community-building, and advocacy to serve and grow LGBTQ audiences globally.

📋 Description

• Maintain a complex backend which processes more than 350 million web server requests per day • Build a modern API application atop a functional architecture in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and/or Sinatra • Build well factored, maintainable, and tested code using RSpec with Test & Behavior Driven Development (TDD & BDD) • Understand and build using strong architectural patterns beyond the standard MVC of Rails • Have a strong sense of OO programming and Architectural patterns • Be able to work with, mentor, and guide a distributed team of developers

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in computer science, related field, or equivalent practical experience • 5+ years of software development experience • 3+ years of software development experience using Ruby • Experience using design and architecture patterns • Strong sense of ownership, ability to work independently, and proven track record of driving products • Shipped consumer API used concurrently by thousands of users. • Be available to collaborate between 9a EST and 1p EST, regardless of your present timezone. • Have experience working for remote, global teams • Be excited about and open to pair programming • Be open to learning languages outside their current server specialty, such as Swift, Kotlin, Python or JavaScript.

🏖️ Benefits

• 11 Paid Holidays • One paid week off at mid-year (PSS Summer Refresh Week) • Home Office Stipend - purchase furniture for your home setup • Paid Parental Leave • 401k plan with 6% match • Comprehensive, nation-wide healthcare coverage • Flexible Time Off