Contract ROR Engineer, Joist – REMOTE (Canada)
*12 Month Contract Opportunity*
EverCommerce [Nasdaq: EVCM] is a leading service commerce platform, providing vertically tailored, integrated SaaS solutions that help more than 690,000 global service-based businesses accelerate growth, streamline operations, and increase retention. Our modern digital and mobile applications create predictable, informed, and convenient experiences between customers and their service professionals. Specializing in Home & Field Services, Health Services, and Fitness & Wellness industries, EverCommerce solutions include end-to-end business management software, embedded payment acceptance, marketing technology, and customer engagement applications.
We are building an extraordinary company and looking for talented, energetic, and motivated people to join our team. You can learn more about our Company, Culture and Values here: https://www.evercommerce.com/about-us/careers/
We are looking for a Back-End Engineer (Ruby on Rails) to join our Joist team.
Joist is a vertical SaaS platform serving small & medium-sized trade contractors. Our mission: Make Contractors Heroes. Joist provides web and mobile applications that help contractors estimate, invoice, process payments, and manage projects from anywhere. With 1M+ contractors across North America, the UK, and Australia, Joist is one of the largest trade contractor platforms in the world, and we are rapidly scaling.
As a Ruby on Rails Engineer, you’ll work on scalable API services, database optimization, and back-end architecture, ensuring a high-performance and secure platform for contractors. You will also be responsible for supporting and maintaining our subscription-based billing system across the iOS App Store, Google Play Store, and Stripe.
Please note: This is a one-year contract position.
Responsibilities
You will contribute to solutions from inception to deployment, and everything in between. The solutions you and your team build must not only work for Joist today but also support rapid iteration and innovation as we grow. Your work will be nothing less than redefining the home renovation industry. The key aspects of this role include:
Innovate and Develop: Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable ROR code for our invoicing and estimating app.
Collaborate: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including various FE platform developers and product managers to define, design, and ship new features.
Build & Maintain APIs – Design, develop, and enhance RESTful APIs that support seamless interactions across web and mobile platforms.
Manage Subscription Billing Systems – Maintain and improve our subscription billing infrastructure.
Mentor and Lead: Regularly review code, provide constructive feedback, and help to foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Drive Technical Excellence: Identify bottlenecks and bugs, devise solutions to address and mitigate these issues, and help maintain code quality and organization.
Required Skills and Experience
2-3 years of experience in back-end development, with a strong focus on Ruby on Rails.
Strong database skills with PostgreSQL
Experience building and maintaining APIs
Familiarity with background job processing (Sidekiq, Redis, or similar)
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently in a remote environment.
Strong collaboration skills and ability to communicate technical concepts clearly with team members across product and design functions.
Experience with debugging and problem-solving issues in production environments.
Bonus Skills and Experience
Experience integrating and managing subscription billing systems with Stripe, Apple App Store, and Google Play Store.
Experience with observability tools (New Relic)
What to Expect
In your first 30 days:
Set up the project, tools, and get familiar with the codebase.
Get familiar with the Git repository, Git commands, and merge your first PR.
Understand project architecture.
Learn how the app interacts with the backend, including API calls and data flow.
In your first 60 days:
Work on a small-sized feature or API enhancement.
Gain confidence in writing tests and debugging performance issues
Actively participate in code reviews and architectural discussions.
In your first 90 days:
Work on a medium to large sized feature or API enhancement.
Provide technical support to customer support or other external groups.
Assist with subscription lifecycle management, including billing edge cases, cancellations, and refunds.
Where:
Remote (Joist head office located in Toronto, Canada).
The EverCommerce team is distributed globally, with teams in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Jordan, New Zealand, and Australia. With a widely distributed team, we are used to working remotely across different time zones. This role can be based anywhere in Canada – if you’re close to one of our offices, we can set you up in-office or you can work 100% remotely. Please note that you must be eligible to work without sponsorship to qualify for this position, and this role may require travel to our Corporate Headquarters in Denver, Colorado, or to other office locations around North America.
Benefits & Perks:
Flexibility to work where/how you want within your country of employment – in-office, remote, or hybrid
Flexible and generous (FTO) time-off
Compensation:
The compensation for this position is $110,000 to $118,000 CAD per year in most US locations. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including location, local market variances, and candidate experience and expertise, and may vary from the amounts listed above.
EverCommerce is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We look forward to reviewing your credentials and getting to know more about your experience!
