Hi! The team from the online school "Foxford" is in touch.

"Foxford" is a product EdTech company. In numbers, we have been providing online education for schoolchildren, their parents, and teachers for 17 years. We have over 13 million users on the platform, 4 learning formats, and 1300 employees. According to the results of 2024 and 2025, we are the #1 company in the children's EdTech market by revenue. In 2023, we were among the top 5 best employers according to HH among large companies and have been #1 in the "Science and Education" industry for four years.

👻 About the team and tech stack

The platform consists of various applications and services, including real-time webinars, personal classes, chat, a video and content distribution system, interactive whiteboards, presentations, polls, and other interactive components that provide educational content and an engaging experience.

Foxford's development team consists of 70+ people (BE, FE, QA, DevOps), all middle and senior level. We are divided into 7 small teams, each working on a specific product. In addition to developers and QA, each team includes a product manager, an analyst, and a product designer. This structure allows developers to be as close as possible to the business and product team – we don't just complete tasks from Jira, but fully participate in solving business problems. For example, we can sometimes propose a solution without a single line of code, so this vacancy will suit those who want more involvement in business and decision-making.

We use:

• Ruby 3.4 and Rails 7.2
• Sidekiq
• PostgreSQL 16
• Centrifugo for real-time notification delivery
• Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Flux CD

We are currently looking for a Ruby on Rails developer of middle level.

🛠 Key tasks

• work through product tasks and implement effective technical solutions – write high-quality, secure, and test-covered code;
• monitor application performance metrics, optimize code for high load and large data volumes;
• conduct code reviews, participate in technical discussions, and share expertise with the team.

⭐️ What we are looking for in a candidate

• at least 2 years of commercial development experience in Ruby;
• interest in the user product flow and a desire to make it even simpler and more convenient;
• share a reasonable approach to developing the project's codebase: do not complicate the code where it's not necessary, strive for order and improvement;
• have an understanding of when introducing a new library or a new approach will be beneficial, and when it will only require extra effort.

❤️ Why it's great here

• official employment (legal salary, vacation);
• market salary + annual review based on performance review results;
• choose your preferred work format – we are okay with full remote work from the Russian Federation, and we'd also be happy to meet you at our office near Tulskaya metro station (Moscow);
• flexible start of the day: the result is what matters most to us;
• we provide equipment – a Macbook Pro or a Windows laptop of your choice;
• health care: voluntary medical insurance with dentistry, corporate psychologist, a small gym at the office, sick leave compensation, online training. And if you catch a cold – we'll send you a vitamin box :)
• development: learning foreign languages in corporate courses, discounts on Netology and Foxford products, access to an online library, and compensation for external training;
• we are accredited as an IT company.

✍🏻 Hiring process

We aim to make decisions quickly: interview with a recruiter (30 minutes) → technical interview (1.5 hours) → offer.