Internship: Full stack developer (Rails)

System Financial, a startup based in San Francisco, is seeking a high school or college student or recent graduate for a full stack developer internship position. The company’s mission is to help people stop living paycheck to paycheck, and you will be joining at the critical moment as we go from version 1.0 to 2.0. This means that you’re not just writing code, but creating part of the DNA of the product and the company itself. As such, this position offers exposure not just to technical challenges, but to the business and marketing aspects of a startup as well. And you’d be building a product that makes people’s lives better.

A successful internship could lead to a full-time job offer, which would include equity and a huge potential for growth within the company.

Our tech stack includes Rails/React/Postgres/Redis on Heroku and we are looking for someone with a solid technical foundation in these.

About you:

• 2+ years of experience developing with Rails
• Experience with the rest of the software that makes up our stack, including Heroku, Puma, Git, and PostgreSQL.
• Appropriate level of rigor around testing for an app in the finance space
• Ability and motivation to work as a solo developer at the start
• Ability to work closely with the founding team to iterate the app from both a technical and conceptual perspective
• The ability to work on a daily basis from our office in Dolores Heights, San Francisco.

Your practical tasks:

• Fix well-defined bugs in our existing Rails / React app (hosted on Heroku)
• Manage your source code and deployment using GitHub/Heroku

Should you excel at these tasks and require more challenges, you can expand into other realms of our product, including:

• Manage data storage (Postgres on Heroku)
• Iterate API interface and data collection from external data source
• Develop classification algorithms
• Write logic/business rules and workflow
• Update front end to provide a solid user interface

Our Stack

• Heroku
• Puma
• Postgres
• React.js
• GitHub
• AWS Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon (CloudFront, EC2, Route 53)
• Stripe – credit card processing
• Redis – queuing
• Heroku SSL
• Python/Bash/Perl – devops scripting

Location: Dolores Heights, San Francisco

Start date: ASAP

Duration: 2+ months

Time requirement: 30-40 hours/week

Pay: $14/hr, paid biweekly

Benefits: opportunity for huge growth at a company that helps people live better lives; exposure to new technical challenges in a calm, professional work environment.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Temporary, Internship

Salary: $14.00 /hour