The role involves developing and maintaining features in the Trail Data team, focusing on web components and optimizing performance, using technologies like React and Ruby on Rails.
About AllTrails
AllTrails is the world’s most popular and trusted platform for outdoor exploration. We connect people to the outdoors, help them discover new places, and elevate their experiences on the trail. With the most comprehensive collection of trails in the world, AllTrails supports inclusive access to nature for a global community of millions of trailgoers. Every day, we solve incredibly hard problems to get more people outside, for their wellbeing and the collective care of the natural world. Join us!
This is a U.S.-based remote position. San Francisco Bay Area employees are highly encouraged to come into the office one day a week.
Software Engineer I, Fullstack (Trail Data)
Join the Trail Data team at AllTrails and become a key player in our mission to help the world find its way outside. We're a fast-paced, impact-driven team, constantly iterating with ReactJS and Ruby on Rails to enable our team to provide up-to-date, precise, and accurate data on the trail. If you're a curious and adaptable engineer who loves to share ideas, learn and iterate, and make a direct impact on one of the most critical operations teams, you'll thrive here. Help us further solidify trust in our dataset and product as we connect millions more people to nature.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Work closely with members of our trail data team to encourage and empower outdoor explorers
- Contribute to the architecture and design of new and existing services
- Design and implement web components and features to enhance management and quality
- Analyze and optimize client-side UI and server-side API code for efficiency and performance
- Work at all layers of the stack, from AWS/Ruby on Rails/SQL to React/HTML/CSS
- Take end-to-end ownership and responsibility for the development, deployment, and maintenance of product features
- Coordinate tasks with your teammates and collaborate with product and quality groups to refine requirements to deliver the best product to our customers
- Identify and squash bugs
- Work collaboratively as a distributed team and use GitHub, Slack, and Zoom extensively to connect
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field
- 1+ years experience with JavaScript, and frontend development frameworks such as React or Angular
- 1+ years experience with web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails framework: MVC pattern, routing, controllers, models, views
- Passion for rapid prototyping and creative collaboration
- Familiarity with the entire stack - web servers, the application layer, caching, and databases
- Experience with responsive layouts and frameworks such as Javascript, Typescript, CSS, responsive design, and HTML
- Understanding of MySQL or other relational and non-relational databases
- Ability to communicate technical concepts and limitations with non-technical stakeholders
- Strong sense of ownership with experience self-managing your workload and communicating updates to stakeholders
- Self-motivation and a deep sense of pride in your work
- Curiosity, humility, and open-mindedness
- AI Native: You naturally incorporate AI tools to enhance your work. You’re comfortable writing prompts, evaluating AI outputs, and enjoy experimenting with new ways to boost creativity, productivity, and decision-making
- Passion for web technologies and AllTrails’ mission to connect people to the outdoors
Nice to Have:
- Exposure to geospatial data or mapping technologies (MapBox, GPX, GIS)
- Experience with Monitoring, Logging, Reporting, and Alerting frameworks like Datadog or NewRelic
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools
- Basic knowledge of AWS or other cloud services (EC2, S3, RDS, Cloudfront)
- Side-projects, open source contributions, hackathons or internships with production code
Nature celebrates you just the way you are and so do we! At AllTrails we’re passionate about nurturing an inclusive workplace that values diversity. It’s no secret that companies that are diverse in background, age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective are proven to be more successful. We’re focused on creating an environment where everyone can do their best work and thrive.
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Top Skills
AWS
CSS
HTML
JavaScript
MySQL
React
Ruby On Rails
SQL
Typescript
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