Experienced backend developer

Salary Competitive
Equity To be negotiated

Donkey Republic is expanding its fast growing team and is looking for an experienced RoR backend developer to help fulfill our vision to become the leading bike rental platform in the world.


It is exciting times for Donkey Republic as we are scaling our bike services and growing our business everyday. We are a close knit team, we have fun, we ship and we are looking forward to working with you.

You will team up with our super talented lead backend developer to deliver a long list of features that will be of immediate use for our partners and riders.

You will take part in designing and implementing everything from the fundamental architecture of our backend to our API services and frontend. We strongly believe in solving issues with simple and clean solutions and keeping our codebase lean, highly tested and scaleable.

We expect you to:

  • Know your way around Ruby on Rails and backend architecture.
  • Understand REST and best practices for web services.
  • Write methodical, maintainable code
  • Have experience with testing and continuous delivery.
  • Have experience with Javascript and Sass
  • Have experience with scaling a service.
  • Have experience with Git or other VCS tools.
  • Be a team player. We invest energy in both product and team.
  • Have worked with startups before.
  • Be fluent in English.
  • Want to change the world with bikes.

What we can offer:

  • Ambitious, investor backed startup in Copenhagen.
  • High degree of flexibility and freedom in your workday.
  • Working with a cool product.
  • Cool surroundings in central Copenhagen.
  • A great salary and options.
  • A company with strong data driven decision making.
  • Changing the world with bikes.
  • Relocation & working permit help if needed.
  • Great team that hangs out and goes on retreats multiple times a year.

Our tech stack currently consists of the follow technologies:

  • Rails 4, Ruby 2.2, Postgres, RSpec, Code Climate for linters and code coverage, Heroku, Circle CI, ReactJS (JSX), Coffeescript, Sass, ERB

Donkey Republic is a bike share service set out to revolutionize the way we transport ourselves. Our in-house developed smart-lock is operated through the users smartphones which provides us the flexibility required to change the way bike sharing works. We already have a fleet of bikes operating on the streets of Copenhagen as well as other countries around the world. See more on: www.donkey.bike

We are based in Dare2Mansion, which is an open, and alternative office space in central Copenhagen.

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Working at
Donkey Republic

In 2015, we created an electronic lock and an automated, self-service bike-sharing system in a Copenhagen home basement. Since then, we’ve been taking that system on a ride around the world, while aiming to turn the bicycle into the hero of public transportation and a catalyst for greener, more liveable and less traffic-congested cities. Donkey Republic is a global bike-share service.The Donkey Republic app allows riders to find a bike nearby in many cities around the world, rent it, and unlock with the app 24/7. Donkey Republic aims to turn the bicycle into the hero of urban mobility and a catalyst for more liveable cities, happier people, and a healthier environment. Currently the company has 7000 bikes on the platform in 19 countries which have been ridden by over 160,000 users. We are a group of fierce cycling enthusiasts who work hard, challenge each other and learn fast to come up with innovative ways to solve today’s urban mobility challenges. Join the Donkey Squad.

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