Senior/Middle Ruby SDE, Python, Go optional

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Serbia.

📋 Description

• Participate actively in the development of automated dependency management tools.

• Collaborate across various languages and package ecosystems to facilitate dependency updates.

• Engage in collaboration through pull requests, code reviews, and CI workflows.

• Assume responsibility for development tasks and quickly acclimate to project needs.

• Support a coding-intensive project that monitors outdated or vulnerable packages and generates pull requests for updates across multiple package ecosystems.

• Contribute to a project at a developer platform company; the precise relationship between the open-source tool and the platform is yet to be determined.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong hands-on coding skills and a readiness to contribute immediately.

• Practical coding ability is more important than the number of years of experience.

• Proficiency in Ruby.

• Capability to work with Go and Python.

• Comfortable with the daily use of AI coding tools, including GitHub Copilot and agentic workflows.

• Familiarity with Git/GitHub workflows, including pull requests, code reviews, and CI using GitHub Actions.

• Ability to deliver independently and take ownership of significant work.

• Proficient in English for meetings, pull requests, and issue discussions.

• Nice to have: knowledge of package managers and ecosystems, such as Bundler, npm/yarn, pip/Poetry, Go modules, Maven/Gradle, NuGet, and Cargo.

• Nice to have: experience with dependency management, semantic versioning, and supply-chain security, including CVE/advisories.

• Nice to have: familiarity with Docker.

• Nice to have: contributions to open-source projects, particularly in relevant developer-platform or dependency-management repositories.

🏝️ Benefits

• Freelancer / independent contractor arrangement.

• 60-month contract.

• 40 hours/week.

• Remote work.

• Eastern Europe timezone overlap until 11 AM / 12 PM PT.

• Target start as soon as possible.

• Potential phased start, with some engineers commencing in 3–4 weeks and others in a subsequent wave.