Ruby Engineer

Summary

Join Silverfin's distributed remote-first engineering team! We offer a salary range of €92,000 - €125,000, flexible hours, 100% remote work possibility, and a supportive environment. You'll build and maintain integrations, improve our Ruby CLI/service, work on user-facing functionalities, and contribute to solution delivery. We value work-life balance and provide a €1200 yearly budget for professional development, along with two engineering retreats and ten wellbeing days annually. If you're experienced in Ruby and Rails and possess strong communication skills, apply today!

Requirements

• 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 have some experience using Javascript framework(s), understand the value of them, but also know when plain Javascript is enough
• You're interested in getting to know our customers to find the best solution for a given challenge
• 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 know and can apply best practices when relevant. That means the daily tools of the trade 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 have at least 2 years of experience working with Ruby, or 1 year of experience with Ruby and 3 years in one or more other programming languages
• Your work hours have some overlap with EU business hours (we require your local timezone to be within CET +/- 3h)
• You can communicate clearly in English, both in writing and verbally

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain integrations with accountancy software packages and APIs
• Improve and expand our on-premise Ruby CLI/service which runs on hundreds of our customer’s systems
• Work on user facing functionalities
• Help with discovery and delivery of a solution

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a remote worker in a fully remote team
• Experience working with large datasets and the problems they bring
• You have some experience using Javascript framework(s), understand the value of them, but also know when plain javascript is enough
• Experience in Fintech
• Accounting knowledge

Benefits

• Actual, proper work-life balance
• A salary range of €92.000 - €125.000 a year
• Flexible working hours and possibility to work 100% remotely
• Experienced engineers as mentors
• Personal growth training and opportunities
• A refreshing work environment with professional, friendly and welcoming colleagues
• A €1200 yearly budget for conferences, courses, workshops or other expenses that will improve your skills
• Two engineering retreats per year, somewhere in Europe
• Ten company-wide Wellbeing Days per year for all employees (once a month, except in July and August)