Senior Software Engineer - Backend
Ruby
Senior Software Engineer - Backend
Cambridge
Type of work
Undetermined
Experience
Senior
Employment Type
Permanent
Operating mode
Remote
Tech stack
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
SQL
Job description
About Us:
Accredible makes it easy for the world’s best educational institutions to issue credentials, awards, qualifications and licenses digitally rather than on paper. Our customers include Google, Harvard, MIT, Oxford University, McGraw Hill, Slack, iHop, GMAC, the CFO Board and 1200 others, on behalf of whom we have issued over 21 million credentials to learners all over the world to date, and we’re adding over 1.5 million per month. After first hitting profitability and then raising our Series A the company has grown from a team of fifteen to a team of fifty and we are looking for exceptional people to join us and help us turn our pirate ship into a navy.
Open and Inclusive. We welcome people of any gender identity or expression, race, skin colour, ethnicity, age, size, nationality, sexual orientation, ability level, neurotype, religion, elder status, family structure, culture, subculture, political views, education level, identity, and self-identification. We welcome teachers, learners, activists, artists, dreamers, doers, ordinary people, extraordinary people, and everyone in between.
About The Role:
- Your role is essential to our success! You’ll be helping to build and maintain a set of back-end APIs that serve over 1,000,000 new visitors per month and over 5,000,000 API requests per day. Our customers expect reliability, stability and speed. You’ll be pushing updates regularly to improve our codebase and be able to see instant feedback from our customers & users.
- We use Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL on top of a few AWS services. Our approach is Agile, test heavy and we push releases once a week.
- You won’t be doing this alone as we have a world-class product team you’ll be working with. You’ll have support from senior Ruby developers who can help you to improve your skills, front-end engineers, our Product Owner, Head of Engineering and our Chief Technology Officer. We’ll be expecting high quality work but don’t worry - you’ll receive constructive feedback and guidance on a regular basis. We meet every day and everybody has input and the ability to make our work and the way we work better.
- You’ll have a lot of decision making power, autonomy and trust. We make decisions democratically and give team members the time, resource and authority to work on what they think is most important.
- This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast growing, profitable startup where there are many opportunities to obtain promotions based upon merit, hard work and dedication.
- We’re scaling quickly and you’ll be involved in solving the technical challenges that come from increased scale and evolving into microservices. You’ll be able to work with interesting technology such as Blockchain, Citus and analytics related frameworks.
Compensation & Benefits:
- $60,000-$100,000 basic salary
- Equity/Stock options
- Flexible hours & remote work
- A close, dedicated startup team who are passionate about improving the education system and who are backed by some of Silicon Valley’s top venture capital investors
- Two hours per week (paid) to spend learning anything you like, even if it is not related to your role, plus a budget to spend on learning materials (courses, books, conferences). We love education and we believe in nurturing your growth!
- A promise to invest in your growth personally and professionally. Wherever you would like to go and whatever you would like to do, we will be there to support you.
- Full Health, Dental and Vision insurance (US only)
- 35 days paid vacation time
- Many additional perks!
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