Senior Ruby Developer

• Position: Senior Ruby Developer
• Form of employment: contract of employment
• Place of work: 100% remote
• Core working hours: 16:00–20:00 CET are the core working hours, with flexibility for the remaining hours.

The role:

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will be a critical part of our growing company, working on a cross-functional team to implement best practices in technology, architecture, and process. You’ll have the chance to work in an open and collaborative environment, receive and give hands-on mentorship, and have opportunities to grow and accelerate your career. You love both learning and teaching. In this role, you will be interfacing with design, front-end, analytics, as well as teams outside of Engineering. You enjoy working cross-functionally to solve hard problems and make an impact. You strive for quality and are obsessed with improving quality, automation, and squashing any bugs that sneak through. You have a drive to constantly investigate performance improvements and innovative ideas.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement highly scalable backend endpoints
• Gather product requirements and write design docs to satisfy product needs
• Drive/Lead the full lifecycle of software development: product requirements, architecture, solution design, development, quality assurance, and maintenance
• Mentor others on best practices and effectively share knowledge
• Ability to effectively communicate development progress to the product lead, engineering manager, and other stakeholders
• Be comfortable introducing new technologies and new ideas as required
• Work effectively as part of a large global team
• Attend and engage in scrum ceremony meetings, team parties, and manager 1:1s
• Provide feedback to co-workers in written and verbal form and respond to technical and behavioral feedback from managers and peers

Qualifications:

• Minimum 5 years of industry experience in backend development, at least 1-2 years in senior positions, developing large-scale applications
• Experience developing distributed web applications
• Your code is comprehensible, well-structured, highly performant
• Experience with database modeling (SQL or NoSQL both OK)
• Experience with using and designing RESTful services
• Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design

Competencies:

• Proactively acts without being told what to do. Able to identify areas of improvement and drive best practices to deliver high-quality, performant, and scalable solutions
• Develops services that are highly available and scalable with proper monitoring and alerting in place
• Able to up-level the team by sharing knowledge and best practices with the engineering team
• Able to deal with ambiguity
• Ownership of projects from start to finish. Just because the project has been deployed doesn’t mean it’s done
• Organized and able to effectively plan and break large projects into smaller tasks that are easier to estimate and deliver
• Let others speak and seek to understand their viewpoints
• A creative and innovative problem solver & pwith revious experience working in an agile, startup environment
• Confident in owning your role, and bringing creative ideas to the hands of our users