Staff Software Developer

About the role

BackerKit helps creators bring projects to life. For over a decade, we’ve powered some of the world’s most successful crowdfunding campaigns. We’re always building the next generation of our platform, innovating, and driving the industry forward.

We’re a remote-first company of ~40 people with a diverse, close-knit team that prizes creativity, enthusiasm, and a willingness to learn. We move quickly, think deeply about our users, and care about building software that lasts.

We’re looking for a full-time, Staff-level engineer who is deeply motivated by user experience, interaction design, and frontend craftsmanship and excited to bring that to life within a Ruby on Rails monolith. Perhaps this is you!

The role

This is a hands-on fullstack, product engineering role reporting to our Director of Engineering, Product, and Design. You’ll lead mainly through the code you write, review, and ship, and most of your week should be devoted to the team’s queue. We are looking for a UX- and business-minded engineer to work directly in Rails views to simplify complex workflows, create intuitive user experiences, and help transform the crowdfunding landscape.

You’ll help shape frontend patterns across the product, and turn our powerful, interconnected systems into intuitive experiences that are fast, clear, and approachable.

This role is high-context, high-collaboration, and high-impact. You’ll evolve patterns, raise the quality bar through mentorship and code review, and influence how the entire Engineering, Product & Design team thinks about user experience. Everyone at BackerKit is customer-facing, and we expect everyone to get to know the creators and backers that we serve (plus, they are awesome, just like you!).

How we build

We iterate quickly, ship small experiments, and learn from customers. We use Claude Code, practice TDD, work in one-week iterations, and ship multiple times a day.

We were a full-time pairing shop for over a decade, and pairing is still central to how we work. Right now we’re also experimenting with solo and cross-functional trio work as we figure out what a great product team looks like when everyone is also working alongside AI. Today we pair with intent: for complex or ambiguous work, knowledge transfer, onboarding, and a teammate’s growth. That balance is still evolving and may shift back toward more pairing, so we want someone who’s curious about how the team works today before helping us decide what comes next.

We’re pragmatic. Speed matters, but it isn’t a goal on its own; we want a pace we can sustain while still doing quality work and shipping the most impactful features for our business. Crowdfunding has real urgency and some chaos, so built into our values is the ability to respond quickly when creators, backers, and colleagues need us.

Our process keeps evolving, and we want your voice in it. As one of our most senior folks, you’ll bring strong opinions and your experience to those conversations. We’re highly collaborative, but we aren’t purely consensus-driven.