This role is part of theRewardful team, one of our growing brands at saas.group.

Rewardful is one of the brands under saas.group's umbrella. Since its launch in 2018, Rewardful has been making it super easy for SaaS companies to handle their affiliate programs using Stripe or Paddle. It's the go-to choice for tons of small SaaS businesses aiming to set up affiliate programs, with a big user base today.

Profile Overview

As the new member of our Engineering Team, you'll play a key role in enhancing Rewardful's infrastructure and scaling capabilities while supporting our affiliate management platform for SaaS companies. You'll lead infrastructure optimization efforts, implement scalable solutions, and contribute to the product's overall stability and growth. Working in a distributed team, you'll collaborate closely with colleagues to solve complex challenges, improve performance, and maintain high-quality systems.

Our stack: Ruby on Rails 7, JavaScript/TypeScript, Sidekiq, PostgreSQL, Redis, RSpec, Capybara, Heroku, GitHub Actions

Your immediate impact in the first 3-6 months will be:

Addressing database scaling challenges to support our rapidly growing user base and increasing traffic volumes
Contributing to the planning and initial implementation of our infrastructure migration strategy from Heroku to a more customizable cloud environment
Introducing architectural changes in our code to allow us to keep expanding our offering

Your responsibilities

Design, code, and ship awesome new features to support our merchants and affiliates
Make important decisions about architecture and technology
Design and implement scalable infrastructure solutions to support our growing platform
Configure and manage containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes
Assist customer support and build tools to automate the platform operations
Write automated tests, provide code reviews, and help maintain the platform

What You bring to the table

At least 3 years of professional Rails development experience. You should have a practical understanding of running Rails at scale and solving performance challenges
Hands-on Kubernetes experience beyond basic usage. You've been involved in actual configuration, deployment management, and service orchestration, not just checking logs or using pre-configured environments
Cloud Infrastructure and deployment experience. Experience with containerization (Docker), cloud infrastructure automation tools, and CI/CD pipeline management
Basic frontend development skills. Comfortable with JavaScript/CSS for occasional frontend work, though this isn't the primary focus
Excellent written and verbal communication in English. Essential for our distributed team collaboration via Slack and GitHub
Empathy and the ability to work in a close-knit team. You’re able to give and receive constructive, candid feedback, and you don’t mind jumping in to help a teammate solve a problem. In the end, it’s all about what’s good for the team and the product.

What’s in it for You

Ultimate flexibility: We’re 100% remote. You can work from wherever you like, whenever you like.
Freedom and autonomy: We’re a high-trust team, and you’ll be given lots of flexibility to solve problems in your own way — with plenty of help from the team when you need it.
Minimum bureaucracy: We don’t like to get bogged down with meetings and red tape. We like to be efficient and keep momentum steady & sustainable.
Small & friendly team: We help each other out, have fun, and joke around.
Our network: We are a community of entrepreneurial SaaS professionals that regularly exchange ideas, knowledge, learning and expertise with each other internally.
Flexible time off: We want you to recharge your batteries when needed.

Rewardful is part of saas.group and we have a shared goal of succeeding together.

What is saas.group?

Think of us as the driving catalyst behind your favorite software success stories. saas.group, established in 2017, is on a mission to turbocharge promising B2B SaaS ventures, unlocking their full potential. As a Software-as-a-Service portfolio powerhouse, we specialize in acquiring small software treasures and polishing them into industry stars. With a dynamic, fully remote team of nearly 350+ colleagues spanning 50+ countries we are truly global and we are rewriting the playbook on SaaS innovation and collaboration. We grow 21 exciting brands under our umbrella. Feel free to explore our Candidate's Hub to get an insider's view, dive into our culture, gain valuable insights into our teams and how we work.

Also, don’t forget to follow saas.group on LinkedIn to stay up-to-date on our job openings, podcast episodes, and with all things happening at our company.

We don’t just simply offer you to “take a job with us” but rather to “join us on this journey” to build the world's largest platform of independent SaaS companies.

Sounds like something you’re up for? Feel free to apply even if you don’t check all these boxes. We believe in the power of diversity and fresh perspectives to spice up our team. Your application might just be the missing ingredient!