Staff Backend Engineer - Ruby

Summary

Join Cleo, a fast-growing fintech unicorn, as a Staff IC engineer and contribute to building features that enhance users' financial health. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor colleagues, and work on a Ruby on Rails monolith. Deliver work using agile methodologies and analyze data to identify problems and generate new ideas. Support colleagues and contribute to cross-cutting concerns. Participate in shaping squad work beyond technical aspects. This role requires 5+ years of experience using Ruby on Rails and a passion for improving users' financial well-being.

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