Senior Back-End Software Engineer

Summary

Join Knowde, a rapidly growing company building the first digital marketplace for the $5 trillion chemical industry, as a Sr. Back-End Engineer. As one of the founding engineers, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and deploying innovative e-commerce products. You will work closely with leadership and the product team in a small, remote environment, contributing to a complex marketplace that doesn't currently exist. This is an opportunity to significantly impact global product innovation. The position offers flexible working hours and the chance to learn and grow within a scaling team. Knowde is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Requirements

• Very good knowledge of Ruby language and Rails framework
• Great knowledge of SQL
• Ability to take tasks from requirements to deployment quickly and independently
• Ability to work within distributed, multidisciplinary teams
• Design and build scalable, high-availability mission-critical systems and APIs
• High bar for quality and a phenomenal attention to detail
• Working knowledge of deployment process (Capistrano), user authentication and authorization (Devise)
• Ability to properly design and implement clear and scalable project structure
• Experience with test-driven development. Ability to create and maintain useful test suite
• Fluent in speaking and writing English
• Experience in web service deployments

Responsibilities

• Work directly with leadership and the product team to make decisions about your code and the future of the product
• Contribute to the build of a complex ecommerce marketplace, the first of its kind in the Chemicals space
• Ship features quickly without sacrificing code quality
• Own your projects from software design to implementation and deployment
• Implement cutting-edge technologies and write state-of-the-art code
• Emphasize simplicity and pragmatism, reflected in elegant code that other developers emulate

Preferred Qualifications

Good knowledge of Sinatra

Benefits

• Location: Rzeszów or Bialystok office (Poland), or remotely from Poland
• Flexible working hours
• Opportunity to work on innovative projects with a strong team of engineers
• Plenty of room to learn and grow your own career as the team scales out