Skillbreak is the P2P platform for artistic, real-life, social learning experiences. The platform allows creators, influencers and creatives to make money by offering unique skill-sharing opportunities with efficient administration for both parties through the user-friendly and accessible platform that Skillbreak provides. As we strive to build the best learning platform we’re looking for a brilliant full-stack-developer to join our team.
What have we accomplished so far?
Launched the Skillbreak platform with more than 3300 units (purchased spots) and 3000 workshop participants since launch.
Launched live sessions to allow for people who don’t have the option to attend a physical workshop to also learn new skills.
What’s our challenge now?
Expanding to new cities, both in Sweden and abroad
Enable and support growth experiments and fast learning
Iterating to build the best course-booking platform on the market
What you will do:
Build next generation web applications in the latest versions of Rails, React and PostgreSQL - we love to keep up with our frameworks’ latest features.
Develop functionalities from start to finish across the stack described below and take responsibility for your own code, including writing tests (yay!).
Work together with our designers and other developers to produce amazing things collaboratively.
Continuously improve and simplify Skillbreak’s technical system to maintain low complexity and reduce tech debt.
Requirements:
Minimum two years working experience with both Rails and React is required.
Experience with large-scale software development.
Competence to make right technological and design choices for ease of use and flawless design.
B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science or a related technical field (3 or 5 years)
Fluent in English and/or Swedish
We are impressed if you have:
Experience with devops, such as hosting and continuous integration/delivery
Worked in a fast paced environment with sprints
Worked with event-, ticketing, web shops or e-commerce products
You are:
A team player who loves our vision, you’re intrigued by ideas that have both potential and a big heart.
You love to generate market value and make a larger impact long-term.
Triggered by difficult challenges and willing to work hard to solve problems.
Inspired by being part of scaling up and expanding a business.
Preferably based close to Stockholm, but working remotely from another city in Scandinavia is also fine.
Our tech stack:
Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL and React.
Server/database hosting: Heroku
Image hosting: Cloudinary
DNS: Cloudflare
Payments: Stripe
Transactional email/sms: Mailgun/46elks
Error reporting: Honeybadger/Sentry
Continuous delivery: CircleCI
Why join Skillbreak?
You’ll be joining a small team with huge ambitions Your work will be seen and used by thousands directly and you have the chance to build a full grown scalable product.
We offer flexible work hours, monthly salary and stock options. If you are based in Stockholm, we work from a really nice co-working space in the Old Town.
Ready? Apply now! We consider candidates on an ongoing basis and will close the opening when we find the right candidate.
This job comes with several perks and benefits
Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.
Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.
Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.
Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.
You know how you perform best. Work from your couch, your favorite cafe or abroad when you feel like it.
Carve out time for your kids, friends and personal cider projects.