Software Engineer APAC

Software Engineers in Discourse are fundamentally writers. We work remotely, and communicate with our colleagues and customers via our own internal and external Discourse forums. Your work on the product will be available to all. This role is part of the Staff Experience team in Discourse, which is responsible for building and maintaining the tools that our staff users use to configure, moderate, and manage their communities. It includes working on our core product, as well as various plugins and themes that we maintain to improve the staff experience. Our engineers work on a product that is used by millions of people every day, and care about helping our customers build healthy communities. Your responsibilities will include: Hashing out new features and improvements to Discourse's admin interface with PMs and designers Implementing new features, fixing bugs, and maintaining our core product, plugins, and themes Cross-team communication with our customer projects and customer support teams, to learn about pain points and opportunities for improvement Advocating for your project in our external forum at https://meta.discourse.org Deploying your changes on our infrastructure, and learning various monitoring tools Fixing high impact security bugs and maintaining our security posture We're looking for someone who: Has experience with Ruby, Javascript, and Ruby on Rails. We use EmberJS so experience with that framework is a bonus, but experience with any major JS framework should be sufficient. Can reason about SQL queries and database performance Writes logical tests for their work, and can backfill tests for existing features Is able to communicate clearly and empathetically in written English Can strike a balance between "good enough" and "perfect" when building features

Discourse is a global company with a product that is 100% open source. Our team is 101 people and growing. We're transforming the online community space. Our product powers a substantial segment of successful online communities, with >20,000 Discourse instances globally. We have thousands of paying customers, with a growing number of Fortune 500 companies on our list, alongside many leading players in the fast-growth technology, gaming and AI spaces.