Backend Staff Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

July 14, 2023

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Description

• As a Staff Engineer, you will spend a lot of your time writing code, but also bring your experience to leading a technical project alongside a Product Manager. Your goal is to build scaling solutions by making tech decisions and to mentor technically your team. Attached to a squad, you will also work on transversal topics (SSO, SEO, Sign up, etc...). Ensure code quality within your projects. Managing technical debt (rework, refactoring) and understand the difference between short-sighted business decisions and impact technical health in the long run. • Practice disciplined software engineering (e.g. automated testing, code reviews, and writing efficiency code). Develop integrations with 3rd party software programs (Webhooks, API, deep integrations). Design, develop, test and implement new product features. Deeply think through the product and its technical feasibility and implications. Proactively flag and de-risk any technical issues that might greatly affect the product’s launch or maintainability.

Requirements

• 8+ years of programming experience in Ruby. • One experience in a leadership position. • Understand the trade-offs in employing different engineering solutions to a problem, valuing pragmatism over idealism. • Deep knowledge in architectures patterns. • Comfortable with DevOps aspects and tooling (K8s, Docker). • Experience working on backend systems at a large-scale internet service. • Track record of designing and implementing complex and scalable software services. • Experience in document oriented databases like Elasticsearch. • Experience with another language like Golang. • Open-source contributions.

Benefits

• Competitive salary package. • Computer allowance and a work-from-home starter kit (desk, chair, etc…). • 50% of your healthcare subscription. • Tickets Resto with Swile - 8€ per day (50% covered). • Two weeks of RTT. • Budget to improve your craft. • Nomad days policy (Work from anywhere you'd like, up to 12 weeks per year, at once or throughout the year). • Access to WeWork around the world. • International team. • Full remote policy. • WeWork's office in the center of Paris with a rooftop just for us! • Pool and free beers in our office between 6.PM and 8.PM. • Squads days (two days per month we meet at the office). • Team building events.