Senior Backend Engineer - Ruby M W D

What will be your mission?

We are scaling a platform used by millions across Europe and continuously evolving our architecture, balancing a Rails monolith with distributed services.

We are looking for a Backend Engineer who enjoys making pragmatic technical decisions with real product impact.

You will join an agile squad with full autonomy over a wide scope of the JobTeaser product. Along with other engineers, a product manager and a product designer, you will be in a position to make technical calls to maintain and improve a complex SaaS product with a wide impact on millions of users across Europe.

Main missions and objectives

Elaborate, develop and maintain features on a modern stack including Ruby and Go microservices, a Ruby on Rails monolith, Kubernetes, gRPC APIs, Kafka, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL and MySQL databases

Inform product design, priorities and constraints in an autonomous product squad

Participate in architectural decisions and tooling improvements for our tech stack and our migration towards a microservice architecture

Contribute to best practice discussions and process improvements within the Backend Chapter, our internal community of backend engineers

Write automated tests and deploy to production several times a day in a Continuous Deployment Devops culture

Monitor and fix production issues on your team’s functional and technical scope

Participate in code reviews and pair programming sessions

Learn and teach through dedicated time for Tech sharing and Mentoring

What about our Tech Department?

Our stack

• A micro services architecture in Go et Ruby
• A Ruby on Rails monolith
• Postgres, MySQL and Redis
• ElasticSearch and Algolia
• gRPC
• Kafka
• React, Next.js, React testing library, TypeScript and Storybook
• AWS hosting, Kubernetes, monitored with Grafana/Loki
• Continuous deployment with Github & CircleCI

Our organization (the famous “Spotify model” adapted so differently by each company)

• 100 people (engineers, product people and data teams)
• 3 product tribes with multiple impact teams in each
• 1 platform tribe including QA team, 1 developer experience team, 1 devops & SRE team
• Each squad with a hands-on Engineering Manager
• Staff Engineers report directly to Head of Engineering
• Software craftsmanship: clean code, testing, peer programming, code review, etc.

Who are you? 🎯

• A passionate developer with some experience in at least one Web backend technology, but eager to learn more. While we mainly work with Ruby and Go in this Squad, we think specific technologies can be learned, and we are more interested in your problem solving abilities than your experience in a specific language or framework.
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