Salary Competitive
Equity To be negotiated

Donkey Republic is expanding its fast growing team and is looking for an experienced full-stack developer to help fulfill our vision to become the leading bike rental platform in the world. We are looking for somebody with equally high ambitions and the skills to take our webplatform to the next level.


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 be working with you.

Our bike rental service revolves around our web service and apps. We have a strong backend which runs our bike service and we want you to help take our web service to the next level. As we are a two sided market our web solution services both the bike owners as well as the bike riders which rent bikes through our booking engine. You will work closely with our designer and two backend developers to ensure that we have a blazing fast, user friendly interface.

We would like that you

  • Have a strong drive for making optimal web solutions. That includes choosing the right frameworks to serve the optimal user experience.
  • Are passionate about how data is served all the way from the database to UI/UX to ensure optimal user experience and a smooth running engine.
  • Are not afraid of getting your hands dirty in Javascript as well as digging into the backend.
  • Have experience with testing and continuous delivery.
  • Have experience with Javascript and Sass
  • Be a team player. We invest a lot of 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:

  1. Ambitious, investor backed startup in cool surroundings in central Copenhagen.
  2. High degree of influence on how challenges are solved.
  3. Flexibility and freedom in your workday.
  4. Working with a cool product. We love bikes, we hope you do too.
  5. A great salary and options.
  6. A company with strong data driven decision making.
  7. Relocation & working permit help if needed.
  8. Great team that hangs out and goes on domestic and international retreats several times a year.

We strongly believe in solving issues with simple and clean solutions and keeping our codebase lean, highly tested and scaleable. Our tech stack currently includes the following technologies:

ReactJS, JSX, Coffeescript, Sass, ERB, Rails, Ruby, Postgres, RSpec, Heroku, Continuous Integration via Circle CI and linters and code coverage via Code Climate

Donkey Republic is a bike share service set out to revolutionise the way we transport ourselves. We are on a path to become the world leading platform for bike rental. 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 Startup Village, which is the main startup hub 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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