About Darkroom

Darkroom is an eCommerce shop builder for creators with built-in product fulfillment. By blending elegant design with sophisticated engineering, we take the headache out of monetizing work for thousands of creators.

We're based in Los Angeles, CA, but the team is encouraged to live and work wherever they thrive.

About the job

You will be building out our web app on a regular cadence of 6-week cycles, following much of the processes outlined in Shape Up by Basecamp. This is a small team, and the position is our first full-time engineer hire.

Darkroom is not a typical "startup" - we are a profitable business, and plan to keep it that way. We prioritize a calm, collected work environment over the excessive growth-at-all-costs mindset. If you are looking for 80 hour work weeks "hustling" to make your stock options worth more on paper, this is not the place for you.

We regularly ship updates to our quickly growing community of creators. This means pushing new features as well as continually improving the current product. Yes, that means technical debt is a part of our normal work. We take pride in always pushing to have the best product possible in the hands of our creators, not just the shiny new ones :)

About you

You are a creator in the broad sense of the word. This is the one thing we all have in common - we love to create. Whether that is photography, videography, software, or woodworking, we all love to create. And we create a beautiful Ruby on Rails application for our community of creators.

In broad strokes, you are a self-driven, generalist. You love to learn, improve, and (did we mention) create.

You view programming as more of an art-form than a science; clean, concise, beautiful code is the valued approach. You aren't interested in the unnecessary complexity of micro-services, SPAs, or the like.

Benefits & Compensation

Our pay is in the top 10% of the industry for the matched role and experience. Period. No matter where you live.

We value work, not time. And more importantly, we value life. The focus is on life-work balance, not the other way around. We believe that work should be the one to give when life requires more time, and this has never been more important than right now.

We are young, and our benefits are growing and changing (in most cases, just being created). But above is what we value, and benefits will be aligned to it.

How to apply

Please send an application to our jobs page. Introduce yourself as a colleague, help us learn who you are and what you love.

We are a 100% remote team and value excellent written communication, so please do take your time.

We'd like to see an example of software you've written, but understand that it can be difficult with past agreements, but anything you can put together would be greatly appreciated.

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