Senior Ruby on Rails Software Engineer - remote

Leadfeeder

Posted 4 years ago

RubyOnRails Ruby AmazonWebServices Mysql Javascript

Ruby on Rails developers at Leadfeeder work mainly on our backends: building APIs, background data processing flows, and integrations. Being a very data-intensive application, much of the work on the Leadfeeder backend involves optimising and effectively using various databases –Cassandra, AWS RDS &Aurora, Elasticsearch and Redis, to name a few.

Our backend, we run multiple small-to-medium-sized Ruby on Rails apps and use serverless components (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Kinesis) on the side. We pride ourselves on keeping apps working smoothly, and the codebase tidy and well-tested. We dedicate time for upgrades, refactoring and improvements in the developer experience.

For people with skills and interest, we offer possibilities to work on our Ember.js frontend too, enabling people to grow to a fullstack role. Equally, there are opportunities to learn and be involved in infrastructure, DevOps and serverless development.

Responsibilities

Developing new features together with your squad
Build internal and public APIs
Build, benchmark and optimise our core backend components
Helping operate our production environments on AWS
Providing code reviews to your peers

Essentials skills and expertise:

5+ years work experience writing maintainable and well-tested Ruby on Rails apps
Strong software architecture &data modelling skills to base engineering decisions on product vision
Ability to help and improve the work of your colleagues through your teamwork and communication skills
Experience managing, monitoring and troubleshooting production grade web applications
Capability to work remotely (minimum 4-hour overlap with central European working hours)

Preferred experience:

Experience working with various APIs
DevOps, AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
Serverless computing, AWS stack in particular

Benefits

Get to work in a talented, remote-first international team
Chance to make an impact on a global product
Actual work-life balance with healthy 40-hour work weeks
Flexible work time
Biannual company retreats
Competitive salary
Friendly and encouraging work environment

Our hiring process:

After we've received and reviewed your application, there are a number of stages in our process.

Initial video call. You'll get to learn more about the role and our company, and we'll learn how you communicate and what are you looking for in the job.

Technical interview. Qualified candidates proceed to our technical interview, where we ask more in-depth technical questions.

Home assignment. We'll test your coding skills in building a small application. You can do this at home on your own time. The assignments usually take about 4-6 hours to complete.

Assignment review and skills interview. After our team has reviewed your assignment, we invite you to the next interview. We'll provide feedback and ask questions about your code. This interview also includes some pair-programming, where we do some improvements or additional features to your project.

Culture interview. The final step before decisions. Great cultural fit is highly important in our remote team. We also want to give you as much as possible information on how it is to work at Leadfeeder and what our culture is like.

All interviews are done remotely over video calls, but of course, if you happen to be in the same city with some of our team members we're happy to organize a meeting on site.

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