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<strong>Headquarters:</strong> Remote
<br /><strong>URL:</strong> <a href="https://designfiles.co">https://designfiles.co</a>
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<h3>At DesignFiles, weâre looking for a Front-End Rails Developer with strong JavaScript and UI skills to help shape and improve the creative tools at the heart of our platform.</h3>
<h3><br>About Us:</h3>
<p>At DesignFiles, weâre building the go-to platform for interior designers to manage every part of their businessâfrom concept to completion. More than 5,500 customers already rely on our tools, and our remote team of 30+ is growing. If you care about building great products that solve real problems, weâd love to meet you.</p>
<h3><br>What You'll Do:</h3>
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<p>Help guide the evolution of our Design/Presentation Editor into a modern, Canva-style experience that supports moodboards, room mock-ups, client presentations, reusable templates, and more.</p>
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<p>Build intuitive, high-performance UI components for core editing interactions: drag-and-drop, layering, resizing, grouping, alignment, snapping, canvas navigation, and on-canvas text/image editing.</p>
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<p>Collaborate closely with product and design to translate complex user needs into seamless creative workflows.</p>
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<p>Shape the architecture and structure of our editor so it's fast, scalable, and easy to maintain as it grows.</p>
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<p>Contribute to a high-quality, design-forward experience that feels just as good as tools like Canva or Figma â but purpose-built for interior designers.</p>
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<p>Participate in team rituals like daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.</p>
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<h3><br>What We're Looking For:</h3>
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<p>Strong vanilla JavaScript skills, including DOM/event handling, canvas or SVG rendering, and performance optimization.</p>
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<p>Experience building or contributing to visual editors, creative tools, or browser-based design software is a strong plus.</p>
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<p>Deep understanding of CSS, with hands-on experience using Tailwind or a similar utility-first framework.</p>
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<p>Proficient with Stimulus.js, Turbo, Hotwire, ViewComponents, and the modern Rails front-end stack.</p>
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<p>3+ years of hands-on Ruby on Rails development experience.</p>
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<p>Takes full ownership of features from concept to deploymentâdriving high-quality, scalable implementations.</p>
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<p>Fluent English and clear, professional communication skills.</p>
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<p>This is a full-time, 40-hour/week remote contract role. Weâre specifically seeking candidates (not agencies) based within Âą2 hours of Central European Time (CET).<br><br>If youâve built or contributed to browser-based editors or creative toolsâand care about crafting fast, intuitive, design-friendly experiencesâweâd love to talk.</p>
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<p><strong>To apply:</strong> <a href="https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/designfiles-remote-front-end-rails-developer">https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/designfiles-remote-front-end-rails-developer</a></p>
