An exciting opportunity to join Kyero as Software &DevOps Engineer, playing a key role in Kyero’s ambitious growth plans
Title: Experienced Software/DevOps Engineer
Terms: Full Time / Flexible working
Location: Fully Remote (time zones UTC-1 to UTC+3)
The Role
We are looking for a self-motivated and enthusiastic software and devops engineer with a keen focus on quality, performance and security to help us improve a class leading website where the customer experience is paramount.
You will join a group of experienced developers at Kyero.com who are constantly pushing themselves to greater heights and redefining what is possible from a small team of passionate individuals.
They share some lofty business goals that will be achieved through well-defined processes and automation but most significantly, through creativity and remarkable performances from a highly collaborative team.
This is a fully remote role where you’ll totally enjoy the virtual yet close communication &connection you’ll have with not just the development team, but also the wider marketing and sales teams.
We believe that happiness and productivity form a virtuous feedback loop that can be optimised for the benefit of all. We do this continuously and enthusiastically!
We are looking for an engineer to join our team, to enjoy working with us and to share their knowledge with us. Ideally this developer would have the following skills (not all mandatory, we are looking for the best fit).
Read on for our story &what we’re hoping you can bring. If this sounds like a good fit, we’d love to hear from you!
Kyero’s Story
Kyero helps people from all over the world to find their sunshine. We make it easier for international property buyers to achieve their dreams.
Many of us have moved countries so we know the joy of finding the place you want to call home. We also know the highs and lows involved in making that happen. Our founders, Louise and Martin, started Kyero based on the lessons they learned when they bought land in their favourite part of Spain. They harnessed what they learnt to create a company dedicated to helping people move from dreaming about sunshine to living in it.
The Business
We are an international team of 30 fully remote people located across 7 countries, combining Marketing, Sales, Customer Services, Design, Development, Data, Finance &Admin. All of whom are truly passionate about the vision and purpose of the business.
The team brings exceptional knowledge of the market and a complete focus on the buyer. With a culture of trust and inclusion, we are firm believers in the power of data, the principles of test &learn &the importance of promises &proof points.
Our response to the Covid crisis was to protect our team and control costs whilst rapidly evolving our proposition to test new commercial models, evolve the buyer experience and explore new ways of working. This has increased our strength and positioning. . Within the last 12 months alone we have launched new branding, introduced a Freemium commercial model, established a marketing team &new partnerships for Data, SEO &CX, whilst firmly establishing ourselves within three new international markets.
And we’re only just getting started …with a clear vision, strong leadership and expertise across the team, we’re more ambitious than ever and have the perfect recipe for continued growth!
Our Values
We help people find their sunshine. For some, that’s a home in the sun. For others it’s a place where they feel at home, where they belong. For our team, it’s the chance to find sunshine in their work, their home and their life.
These are the values we live by:
- Know our customers, no assumptions.
- You can with Kyero.
- Explore what’s possible, never settle.
- Real Deal, what you see is what you get.
- One team, together we go further.
What You Will Bring...
Your Experience
- You’re a Software Engineer with backend development experience and interest.
- You have working knowledge of developing an architecture based on cloud services.
- You ideally have experience with Ruby, plus some JavaScript.
- You’re comfortable with architectures built on AWS, containers and infrastructure as code (ideally using Terraform and Kubernetes)
- You’re familiar with relational database and NoSQL data stores.
- You have knowledge of design patterns and when to apply them.
- You are programming language agnostic (but you have your preferences).
- You have an understanding of what it takes to run and scale a high throughput production site.
- You're pragmatic on your job, you love to optimize for performance but you understand the cost-benefit of a solution.
- You love to write tests, you know pairing and code reviewing is about ensuring stuff works properly and a way to ensure quality and shared knowledge.
- You are comfortable and productive working 100% remotely.
Your Main Responsibilities
- Initially you will be involved in migrating our services hosted with Heroku to a new architecture built on AWS.
- You will be responsible for maintaining and improving the technical infrastructure for Kyero.com* and it's component applications.
- You will work closely with our development team, developing software in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript.
* Kyero.com is a Ruby on Rails application using a fairly standard technology stack, including PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ and ElasticSearch. We use Docker to run everything and work with some secondary PHP content management systems, utilising WordPress and Laravel.
Essentials
- You live in Europe on a time zone between UTC-1 and UTC+3.
- You're a team player, you know when to ask for help and to give help, you listen to others and you give advice.
Required Skills
- AWS DevOps certification or 2 years working experience
- Ruby on Rails
- JavaScript
- Database management
- Containerisation
- Infrastructure as Code
- Passion to grow as developer
Languages
You are fluent in English (we need to have a common language) and you’re a good communicator.
The Offer
- Excellent contract rate / employee terms depending on location
- Autonomy and flexible remote working
- 25 days holiday
- International team meet ups (fun &inspiring, we hope to resume these when able)
- The potential to make a difference and play a key role in our growth story
Does this sound like a good fit for you? We’d love to hear from you! Please get in touch and let us know why this could be the right opportunity for you.
To Apply
Send your application to jobs@kyero.com and include "Software/DevOps Engineer" in the title.
Please also include:
- Your CV
- A few words explaining why you think you'd be a good fit for Kyero
Important Info
Direct applicants only please - we won’t respond to agencies.