Backend Staff Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails)

Summary

Join Hivebrite as a Staff Engineer to lead technical projects, mentor teams, and build scaling solutions. You will work on transversal topics, ensure code quality, and manage technical debt.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• Spend a lot of time writing code
• Lead a technical project alongside a Product Manager
• Build scaling solutions by making tech decisions and mentor technically your team
• Ensure code quality within your projects
• Manage technical debt (rework, refactoring) and understand the difference between short-sighted business decisions and impact technical health in the long run
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in document oriented databases like Elasticsearch
• Experience with another language like Golang
• Open-source contributions

Benefits

• Support for mental health via Moka Care (sessions paid by Hivebrite, collective sophrology sessions, etc.)
• A Gymlib access for you to practice any physical activity you want
• A really flexible remote policy detailed here
• Around two weeks of RTT to enjoy more time off with your friends and family
• Paid leaves for parents with sick kids
• Nomad days policy (work from almost anywhere you'd like, up to 12 weeks per year, at once or throughout the year) - check out the full policy here
• International team - you will easily hear 3 different languages in the same conversation
• WeWork’s office in the center of Paris with a rooftop just for us!
• Pool, foosball, and a gym room
• Squads days for our engineering team - two days per month we meet at the office
• Team building with dedicated budget for events every month with your team and yearly with your entire department
• Internal mobility and professional training to support your career
• All the mandatory benefits, but with the best companies to support you (Alan, lunch vouchers with Swile, etc.)
• CSE advantages with Swile
• A competitive salary package - we constantly ensure that we're aligned with the market
• A 500€ remote equipment allowance and a work-from-home starter kit (desk, chair, etc…)
• The latest Apple’s equipment