Senior Developer

**✨ One platform, a whole world of opportunity**:
Right now, the best jobs are limited to people in a handful of the world's wealthiest cities, yet brilliant people are _everywhere_. Driven to overturn the status quo and distribute opportunities equally around the world, Oyster launched its global employment platform to help companies hire, pay, and care for talent anywhere.

When it comes to global employment, we walk the walk. We're proof that companies don't need an office to create a highly-engaged culture. Since the company's inception in January 2020, Oyster has:

- Created a fully-distributed, vibrant team of 500+ employees across 60+ countries
- Established a diverse leadership team and an employee base that's 60% female
- Achieved one of the highest employee engagement scores in its class

**Raised $150 million in Series C funding at a valuation of over $1 billion**

Our momentum speaks to the power of global employment—and we're just getting started If you want to change the world with Oyster _and_ be empowered to work remotely while doing so, we'd love for you to apply

**The Role ‍**:
**Location**: Anywhere within timezones GMT-8 to GMT+3. All of Oyster's positions are fully remote and you can work from home, forever.

**Delivering projects to empower companies and remote workers**:
You'll play an important role in our delivery process. It will be important to understand the product goals and then provide technical input to specification. You'll participate in discussions on domain model design and coordinate with the Product Owner on acceptance criteria. And you'll collaborate with lead developers on architecture and implementation planning.

**Be a key part of our development team**:
We're a young team, you'll help shape our team's process and help us make technical decisions to make us effective and a great place to work as a developer.

We also expect you to support developers by answering questions and offering support when needed, or to pair on complex problems.

And to advance technical excellence at Oyster by researching new tools and practices, taking initiative on technical improvements and refactorings, and moving best practice forward through pairing, discussions in the team.

**What we're looking for**:
**We'd like to see**:

- At least 5 years of experience as a software developer. We are hiring for several different levels and will offer you the one that matches best the feedback we get from the hiring process.
- Expert use of a high-level language such as Ruby, Python, Elixir, and experience using Javascript.
- Having been a Senior contributor for large, complex software projects.

**On the technical side, we're looking for**:

- SQL database usage and schema design
- API implementation and design

**Other attributes that are important**:

- You thrive working in a team and being supportive of others.
- You're persistent and get things done.
- You're a learner: committed to learning and helping the development team to progress.

**What you'll be working on**:
You'll be a member of one of our product teams, working on:

- Hiring automation. Hiring a team member cross-border should be quick and frictionless, but there are too many barriers to that today. Our teams on hiring automation create processes that integrate structured knowledge on hiring from dozens of countries into a seamless experience.
- HR tools for distributed teams. Companies are more and more building global, distributed teams, and they'll need the tools to enable them to work effectively.
- Payroll and payments. We run complex payroll jobs that combine accounting information from over eighty countries, as well as collecting payments and disbursing millions of dollars of salary to employees every month.
- Enterprise platform features. Our customers demand high quality security, access, communication, and auditing features.
- Growth teams. We are growing quickly and have teams devoted to experimenting in growth hacking.

**Engineering at Oyster**:
We seek out and build up engineers and leaders who have strong software engineering fundamentals, value transparency, promote knowledge sharing, and thrive in a distributed, remote-first, and asynchronous working environment.

Finally, we live and champion our company values.
- **We elevate talent**: We hire our team (using our own product) and continue to grow their abilities through mentorship, challenges that stretch and strengthen their skills, and giving them room to explore.
- **We build trust**: We are transparent and promote an active flow of information throughout the team. We believe that people can do their best work when they feel supported, heard, and safe to challenge ideas to make the product, and team or company stronger. To do that we value egoless sharing of information, transparency throughout the company, actively promote knowledge sharing, and promote a safe environment to try and fail. Failures are not the end; they are moments to learn and