Ruby Engineer

Summary

Join Silverfin's remote-first engineering team, a distributed group of 40 colleagues across 14 countries. This role focuses on improving and building integrations with various bookkeeping software APIs. You'll leverage your Ruby on Rails expertise, API integration skills, and experience with large datasets. Silverfin offers a competitive salary (€104,000 - €140,000), flexible working hours, 100% remote work option, mentorship, personal growth training, and a yearly budget for skill enhancement. The company prioritizes work-life balance and provides a supportive, collaborative environment. Apply if you're passionate about solving technical challenges and contributing to a successful SaaS platform.

Requirements

• 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 (we require your local timezone to be within CET +/- 3h)
• You can communicate clearly in English, both written and verbally

Responsibilities

• 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 that will be applied in over 40 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

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 €104.000 - €140.000 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)