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).