Ruby On Rails Backend Engineer, Dealfront

• At least 3 years commercial experience writing maintainable and well-tested Ruby on Rails applications
• Knowledge of database technologies
• Experience managing, monitoring and troubleshooting production grade web applications
• Skills and the right mentality for test automation
• Ability to help and improve the work of your colleagues through your teamwork and communication skills
• Be located within European timezones

Desirable

• Ruby on Rails Engineers at Dealfront work mainly on our backends: building APIs, background data processing flows, and integrations
• Being a very data intensive application, much of the work on the backend involves optimising and effectively using various databases - Cassandra, AWS RDS & Aurora, Elasticsearch and Redis, to name a few
• Our backend consists of multiple small-to-medium sized Ruby on Rails apps and uses serverless components (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Kinesis) on the side
• We pride ourselves on keeping apps working smoothly, and the codebase tidy and well-tested
• We dedicate time for upgrades, refactoring, and overall improvements for developer productivity and happiness
• For people with skills and interest, we offer possibilities to work on our Ember.js frontend too, enabling people to grow to a fullstack role
• Equally, there are opportunities to learn and be involved in the infrastructure, DevOps and serverless development
• As a Ruby On Rails Backend Engineer, your responsibilities will include:
• Developing new features together with your squad
• Build internal and public APIs
• Build, benchmark and optimise our core backend components
• Helping operate our production environments on AWS
• Providing code reviews to your peers