Senior Backend Engineer – Ruby

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in France.

📋 Description

• We are expanding a platform utilized by millions throughout Europe and continuously enhancing our architecture, balancing a Rails monolith with distributed services.

• We seek a Backend Engineer who enjoys making pragmatic technical choices that have a real impact on products.

• You will become part of an agile squad with complete autonomy over a broad scope of the JobTeaser product.

• Together with fellow engineers, a product manager, and a product designer, you will be empowered to make technical decisions to maintain and enhance a complex SaaS product that significantly affects millions of users across Europe.

• Design, develop, and maintain features using a modern stack that includes Ruby and Go microservices, a Ruby on Rails monolith, Kubernetes, gRPC APIs, Kafka, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, and MySQL databases.

• Influence product design, priorities, and constraints within an autonomous product squad.

• Engage in architectural decision-making and tooling enhancements for our tech stack as we transition towards a microservice architecture.

• Participate in discussions on best practices and process improvements within the Backend Chapter, our internal community of backend engineers.

• Write automated tests and deploy to production multiple times a day in a Continuous Deployment DevOps culture.

• Monitor and resolve production issues within your team’s functional and technical scope.

• Take part in code reviews and collaborative programming sessions.

• Engage in learning and teaching through dedicated time for tech sharing and mentoring.

⛳️ Requirements

• A passionate developer with experience in at least one web backend technology, but eager to expand your knowledge.

• While our squad primarily works with Ruby and Go, we believe that specific technologies can be learned, and we value your problem-solving skills more than your experience with a particular language or framework.

• You are committed to achieving technical excellence for both yourself and your team.

• You take ownership of the code you write and support it in production: “You build it, you run it”.

• You are comfortable communicating with non-technical stakeholders, understanding their concerns as well as those of our users.

• You are eager to join a team that shares values of humility, engagement, agility, and enthusiasm.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• Family Care Policy: 4 additional paid days off during your return month from parental leave, 3 paid child-sick days per year, and other initiatives to support parents.

• Support for mental health with Moka Care: 4 free therapy or coaching sessions per year (along with extra support in challenging personal situations), plus regular manager workshops in partnership with Moka Care and Alan.

• RTT, health insurance, meal vouchers, holiday bonus, and 50% public transport reimbursement.

• Flexible work environment: remote-friendly, with one month per year to work from anywhere in Europe, and support for home office equipment.

• Strong training policy, including an annual individual budget for learning opportunities (95% of our employees received training last year!).

• A modern and conveniently located office at WeWork – featuring barista-quality coffee and complimentary yoga classes.