Experienced Ruby Engineer, Silverfin

• You’re experienced in both Ruby and Rails, and also understand where the boundaries lie between them
• You can code in Ruby without any of Rails’ training wheels if necessary
• You enjoy integrating with APIs and aren’t easily dissuaded when encountering unreliable or poorly documented systems
• You code with reason and can justify the important decisions you made during development
• You can communicate clearly in English, both in writing and verbally
• You’re up for mentoring coworkers and can give in-depth, productive feedback during code reviews. While you appreciate the small stuff, you recognise bike-shedding and can avoid its pitfalls
• You know and can apply best practices when relevant. That means the usual like version control, testing, and refactoring; but also higher level concepts such as good object oriented design
• You're aware of the trade-offs involved in proper engineering and can make balanced business decisions, keeping in mind all the stakeholders of the project
• You’ve got opinions on code design and you can discuss them, but you’re professional enough to not let those opinions get in the way of a consensus if necessary
• We’re enthusiastic followers of the devops mindset, which means ops and developers work together to solve problems, and empower each-other to be self-sufficient, instead of throwing problems over the wall to the “other side”
• You have at least 4 years of experience working with Ruby, or 2 years of experience with Ruby and 4 years in one or more other programming languages
• You get Rails
• You have experience with designing or integrating with APIs
• Your work hours have some overlap with EU business hours
• You can communicate clearly in English, both written and verbally

Desirable

• One of the cornerstones of the Silverfin platform is the integration with bookkeeping software that accountants already work with, which allows us to seamlessly import their accounting data
• We currently have integrations with over 30 different vendors, and we want to add more as we expand to different markets
• Team Syncs is the team responsible for creating, maintaining and improving these integrations. Some APIs we need to use are poorly designed, badly documented or unreliable, and it can be challenging to build a robust integration
• Et solving those puzzles, and empowering our customers by importing gigabytes of data from their clunky bookkeeping software, makes it all worth it
• Because once the data is in Silverfin, it's connected, standardised and can be easily worked with, which is what it's all about
• Improve the stability, performance and infrastructure cost of dozens of our current 3rd party integrations, through usage of different distributed systems patterns
• Practise your modelling & refactoring skills. You'll have the opportunity to think about solutions applied in implementations of almost 50 of our integrations
• Help design & build the new generic API based on more than a decade of our experience with building custom solutions for bookkeeping software
• Rare opportunity to work on a CLI/service application which is currently deployed on hundreds of our customers' servers
• There are seven engineering teams working together to deliver the best value for our customers
• Several product teams, collaborating closely with product managers and product designers, are solving customer facing problems
• The other, more platformy teams, own complex subsystems, like syncs or AI, and or support the product teams with knowledge, frameworks and services
• Our ops team ensures things run smoothly, deploys happen correctly, and will work with you when issues should arise
• We run an up-to-date Rails monolith on the backend, with PostgreSQL and Redis for persistence and caching, and everything is running on a Kubernetes cluster in Google Cloud
• Our daily tools include GitLab, Quip and Slack, with Google Meet as our remote conferencing tool of choice
• We avoid meetings as much as possible, accept deadlines only when absolutely necessary, and never expect anyone to work longer hours than they’ve signed up for

• You can apply today and we’ll start having interviews from 27/05/2024