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Senior Backend Developer (Ruby) - remote

Lufthansa Innovation Hub
Posted 3 years ago
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About the job
We are Europe’s largest airlines’ innovation unit and work on a variety of innovative projects from new ways of booking flights to the future of climate-neutral flying.

As a senior developer, you are someone who can see projects through from beginning to end, coach others, and self-manage. We’re looking for an eager person who can bring our team to the next level with their technical knowledge, people skills, and real-world experience. 

On the technical side, extensive experience building high-traffic websites using Ruby and Ruby on Rails is a hard requirement. Experience with DevOps (AWS services, Terraform) is a plus but not required.


The Stack
  • Ruby on Rails backend &we're experimenting with Sorbet
  • Open API Specs for contract testing
  • Postgres
  • Terraform
  • Bonus: Amazon Web Services (RDS, ECS, Lambda, Cloudwatch)
  • Bonus: TypeScript, React/Vue

How we work
  • Our biweekly sprint planning call is our only regular meeting
  • For complex features, write a design doc before coding
  • All code goes through code review, reviews are split out evenly across the team
  • A dedicated "runner" fields ad-hoc requests and bug reports each week, so that everyone else can focus
  • We use Tuple for pair programming

About you
Technical Skills &Experience
  • You've built complex apps in a Ruby on Rails + modern frontend stack before, with a codebase optimized for performance and scale
  • You've designed &shipped large applications with many components and data structures
  • You have a proven ability to design interfaces that stand the test of time, showing anticipation of future product changes
  • You have experience integrating complex third party APIs
  • You are able to successfully refactor existing code and get rid of tech debt without regressions


Personality
  • You are able to handle ambiguity, and can push projects forward even when there is not a clear best path
  • You see things through from start to finish
  • You can manage yourself but you also work well with others
  • A good sense of humor and a great team player
  • Fluent English and an excellent communicator

Compensation
This is a full-time position and you can work from anywhere within ±6 hours of CET. The salary range is between $90 - 120k. 
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