{"id":58554,"date":"2026-01-03T17:35:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/job\/wodboard-senior-rails-developer\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:35:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T13:35:56","slug":"wodboard-senior-rails-developer","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/job\/wodboard-senior-rails-developer\/","title":{"rendered":"WodBoard: Senior Rails developer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remote Jobs<\/p>\n<p>Region: Anywhere in the World<\/p>\n<p>State: Surrey<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/we-work-remotely.imgix.net\/logos\/0082\/2223\/logo.gif?ixlib=rails-4.0.0&#038;w=50&#038;h=50&#038;dpr=2&#038;fit=fill&#038;auto=compress\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Headquarters:<\/strong> London<br \/>\n    <br \/><strong>URL:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wodboard.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.wodboard.com<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<div>We&#8217;re looking for a senior rails developer to come work with us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wodboard.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WodBoard<\/a>&nbsp; WodBoard is gym management software that helps gym owners run their businesses and helps their customers, the gym members, live healthier lives.&nbsp; The brand name won&#8217;t make any sense unless you&#8217;ve walked into a functional fitness gym before so I&#8217;ll move swiftly on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re a bootstrapped company so there&#8217;s no VCs to answer to.&nbsp; That doesn&#8217;t mean we&#8217;re not ambitious though &#8211; there&#8217;s a massive market we&#8217;re going after and we want to create lasting change.&nbsp; As a combination of these two things we&#8217;ve a heavy focus on getting stuff done.<\/p>\n<p>Our development ethos could be best described as &#8220;full DHH&#8221;. 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There&#8217;s also infrastructure\/UI work\/mobile app development work that happens and you can become involved in if you so wish.&nbsp; The role has the opportunity to build into a CTO role for the right person.<\/p>\n<p>A little more about the role and us:<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s really refreshing using technology to do something that helps people in a real world tangible way.&nbsp; Changing lives and increasing health through technology is very motivating!<\/li>\n<li>We love simplicity.&nbsp; We&#8217;re fanatical about it.&nbsp; This goes from our codebase, to our infrastructure, to how we operate as a company.&nbsp; It can be harder work upfront but it sure makes life easier down the road.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ll need strong ownership skills.&nbsp; As a small team we don&#8217;t have project managers.&nbsp; You&#8217;re responsible for your tasks so you&#8217;ll need to be good at taking ownership and reporting back to the team.<\/li>\n<li>An ability to renegotiate requirements as you get into the technical details is most welcome!&nbsp; In Computer Science there&#8217;s hard problems and hard problems that don&#8217;t need solving.&nbsp; We are constantly asking ourselves if there&#8217;s an easier way to do something.<\/li>\n<li>We spend a lot of time talking to our customers and understanding their problems.&nbsp; This won&#8217;t ever change.&nbsp; Be prepared to go back and evaluate previously held assumptions on new features after testing with beta customers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>The position is fulltime and by no means do you need to be into health\/fitness to work here (only about 50% of our staff are).&nbsp; It&#8217;s fully remote position but you&#8217;d need to be on an EU timezone so there&#8217;s sufficient overlap with the rest of the team.&nbsp; We also do a full team meetup in person twice per year.<\/div>\n<p><strong>To apply:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/weworkremotely.com\/remote-jobs\/wodboard-senior-rails-developer-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/weworkremotely.com\/remote-jobs\/wodboard-senior-rails-developer-1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","job_listing_type":[1174],"job_listing_category":[1262],"job_listing_location":[],"job_listing_tag":[],"class_list":["post-58554","job_listing","type-job_listing","status-publish","hentry","job_listing_type-remote","job_listing_category-full-stack-programming"],"metas":{"_job_featured_image":"","_job_featured":"","_job_filled":"","_job_urgent":"","_job_category":{"1262":"Full-Stack Programming"},"_job_type":{"1174":"Remote"},"_job_tag":[],"_job_expiry_date":"","_job_gender":"","_job_apply_type":"external","_job_phone":"","_job_apply_url":"https:\/\/weworkremotely.com\/remote-jobs\/wodboard-senior-rails-developer-1","_job_apply_email":"","_job_salary_type":"","_job_salary":"","_job_experience":"","_job_career_level":"","_job_qualification":"","_job_video_url":"","_job_photos":"","_job_application_deadline_date":"","_job_address":"","_job_location":[],"_job_map_location":{"address":"","latitude":"","longitude":""},"_job_logo":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wp-job-board-pro-uploads\/_employer_featured_image\/2025\/11\/ICON-Here-Careers-Logo-150-150x150.png","_job_employer_name":"HR","_job_employer_url":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/employer\/hr\/"},"cmb2":{"_job_careerjet_job_fields":{"_job_careerjet_detail_url":"","_job_careerjet_company_name":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing\/58554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/job_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_type?post=58554"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_category?post=58554"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_location?post=58554"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herecareers.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_tag?post=58554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}