Our vision is to make work better for everybody – companies and talent.
Our mission is to fuel growth for over 1M+ freelancers & flexible workforces.
- Workfree helps companies to hire, manage, and pay freelance talent.
- Workfree helps freelancers to find the work they want to do, grow and develop their portfolio careers, while keeping the work life balance at their level of choice.
Why we are different: Workfree is commission-free, collectively powered and community owned. Our platform is built, used and owned by freelancers.
How we work
Upon joining our network, you will gain access to the marketplace with various job opportunities.
We recommend starting with smaller bits that will allow you to familiarize yourself with the project while contributing to the actual platform development.
We prefer beginning with these smaller assignments as a way to test the waters and evaluate how well we work together as a team, including our set technologies and approaches. We can start with around 4-8 hours per week and gradually increase to 12-24 hours per week as we see fit.
Ultimately, you can determine the right amount of hours that aligns with your professional commitment. We’d like to note that our focus is on defining the scope and budget of the work, instead of monitoring the number of hours or requiring your physical presence.
We are a distributed group of people and highly encourage written communication and documenting things. We tend to use workfree for our own work discussions, and planning when possible.
Why work with us
- Do your bit in changing the future of work
- Shape your ideal work-life balance
- Find the occupation that fits your skills and interests the best
- Become a member of the co-founding community, earn shares and choose your own growth path
Full stack developer (Ruby on Rails)
We are seeking a skilled Ruby on Rails developer who possesses a genuine passion for crafting user-friendly products that effectively address real-world challenges. While this role primarily involves individual contribution, there is a potential pathway for growth into a leadership position for those with aspirations in that direction.
There are various types of development work needed to do about our platform: frontend and backend development, business logic implementation, user experience enhancements, work security reviews and improvements, specification and testing, performance optimization, devops. You have the opportunity to choose the areas that interest you the most, where you are most efficient, or where you would like to gain experience and learn.
We use a pretty conservative set of technologies that is rather traditional for the Ruby On Rails ecosystem: Ruby on Rails 7, Rspec, Alpine.js, Stimulus, Tailwind CSS, Git. The basic design and development skills, interest and ability to learn, passion for technologies, mastering and efficiently using them are more important than the knowledge of some specific libraries or tools.
We expect
Significant experience with Ruby On Rails and it’s ecosystem on commercial products, deep understanding of the framework (e.g. PostgreSQL beyond ActiveRecord etc),
Experience with frontend technologies: JavaScript (ideally some Stimulus/Hotwire), HTML/CSS (ideally Tailwind CSS).
A true self-starter able to deliver the complete solutions: working without close supervision, testing own code, thinking through the edge cases.
Clues that you can be a good fit
- You prefer working with big responsibilities in smaller companies rather than vice versa
- You have experience driving the architecture and UX of web applications
- You are passionate about your craft and solving problems with technologies
- You understand business priorities and limitations and know how to balance them with technical considerations
- You have your vision about what the future of work can or should be
- You like coming up with the initiatives about what can be done about a product to make it better in many ways: technology, user experience, security, performance, maintainability