Backend Engineer - Ruby

Summary

Join Cleo, a profitable and fast-growing fintech unicorn, and become a Staff IC within a cross-functional product squad. Collaborate with engineers, designers, and analysts to develop features enhancing user financial health. Lead the delivery of projects, mentor colleagues, and work on the Ruby on Rails monolith, building data models, APIs, and services. Utilize agile methodologies and analyze data to identify problems and generate new ideas. Contribute to cross-cutting concerns and participate in product ideation and user research. Cleo offers a competitive compensation package, equity, a clear progression plan, flexibility, and remote work options.

Requirements

• You are passionate about making a positive difference in society by improving the financial health of our users
• You align with our company values and engineering principles, which drive our ways of working and software delivery
• As this is an SE5 position as described in our public progression framework we’re looking for someone who has at least 5+ years industry experience of using Ruby on Rails

Responsibilities

• Staff IC within a cross-functional product squad and collaborating with a mix of engineers, designers, analysts and other disciplines to develop features that enhance our users' financial health
• Collaborating with other senior peers in your pillar to provide technical insight into upcoming work, and leading the delivery by helping pull everyone together to get it shipped
• Mentoring colleagues to help them grow as engineers and actively supporting their development
• Working on our Ruby on Rails monolith, building data models, APIs, and business logic services
• Delivering your work using agile methodologies and tools like tests, observability, AB-tests, and feature flags
• Analysing data to identify problems and generate new ideas, using various sources such as our database, application logs, and user research data
• Supporting colleagues through in-hours support and optionally joining the compensated out-of-hours on-call rotation
• Contributing to cross-cutting concerns that improve our engineering efforts
• Taking part in shaping the work of your squad beyond technical aspects, participating in product ideation, user research, design reviews, retrospectives, and more

Benefits

• A competitive compensation package (base + equity) with bi-annual reviews, aligned to our quarterly OKR planning cycles
• Work at one of the fastest-growing tech startups, backed by top VC firms, Balderton & EQT Ventures
• A clear progression plan
• Flexibility
• Work where you work best
• Company-wide performance reviews every 6 months
• Generous pay increases for high-performing team members
• Equity top-ups for team members getting promoted
• 1 month paid sabbatical after 4 years at Cleo
• Regular socials and activities, online and in-person
• We'll pay for your OpenAI subscription
• Online mental health support via Spill