Backend Staff Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

Job Description



🌟 YOUR ROLE WILL BE
  • 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.

  • 🌟 YOUR MISSION WILL BE
  • 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.

  • 🌟 YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF
  • 8+ years of programming experience in Ruby or Python 🚂
  • 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.

  • 🌟 NICE TO HAVE
  • Experience in document oriented databases like Elasticsearch.
  • Experience with another language like Golang.
  • Open-source contributions.

  • 🌟 RECRUITMENT PROCESS
  • Meet Ruben, our Tech Recruiter, for a first video-call to better understand your career plan and answer any of your questions (60 mins).
  • Meeting with Samy (Engineering Manager) and Valentin (Software Engineer) to talk about the current tech challenges, the team and the way we work. There will also be a live coding exercice on Rails (60 mins).
  • Meet 2 Senior Backend Engineers to discuss around a technical architecture review exercise (90 mins).
  • Meet Tarek, our CPTO, to speak about your long-term involvement with Hivebrite (60 mins).