Position: Senior Back End Ruby Engineer
Company: Particles Global
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Given our exciting and progressive growth plans, we are looking for an exceptional Back-End Engineer to come join our global business.

Reporting directly into the Engineering Manager, and working collaboratively in a cross-functional product team within a tribe, you will be accountable for designing and developing applications, and to coordinate with the rest of the team working on different layers of the company's infrastructure.

This is a great opportunity for someone looking to work in a fast-paced and changing environment, who likes to work autonomously, enjoys a challenge and wants to make an impact!

Our stack is Ruby/Elixir/TypeScript, and if you’re happy to work with those, we’d love to talk to you!

About the company (UK based; a government partner, so will consider helping to relocate to the UK in the future).

The world's largest, top-rated booking platform for Beauty and Wellness trusted by millions of consumers worldwide. It is used by 60,000+ businesses and 300,000+ professionals worldwide, who book over 20 million appointments per month. HQ in London, United Kingdom with global offices located in New York City, Vancouver, Sydney, Dublin, Amsterdam, and Warsaw. The company raised $185M in venture capital funding to date from leading institutional investors.

The company allows consumers to discover, book and pay for beauty and wellness appointments with local businesses via its marketplace, while beauty and wellness businesses and professionals use an all-in-one platform to manage their entire operations with its intuitive free business software and financial technology solutions.

Our ecosystem gives merchants everything they need to run their business seamlessly by facilitating appointment bookings, point-of-sale, customer records management, marketing automation, loyalty, beauty products inventory and team management.

**Requirements:**
**Key requirements**

Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Ruby/ Elixir code
Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
Be involved in all stages of building products from inception, through delivery and beyond
Help to shape the future of our architecture and best practices
Contribute to a healthy engineering culture of feedback and growth

**Additional and ad-hoc duties:**

Familiarity with continuous integration
Familiarity with development aiding tools
Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes

**Skills, experience & qualifications required:**

Knack for writing clean, readable Ruby/ Elixir code
Experience with popular web application frameworks such as Rails, Lotus, etc depending on project requirements.
Familiarity with command-suite libraries, depending on project requirements.Good understanding of the syntax of Ruby/ Elixir and its nuances
Solid understanding of object-oriented programming
Understanding of functional programming style in Ruby/ Elixir
Creative thinking and problem-solving mindset
Experience developing complex web applications/APIs in distributed architectures
Enthusiastic engineers. We don’t believe engineers are defined by the technologies they use, but by their attitude and application.
Ability to interact with people from across the business and build strong relationships, including the ability to effectively influence upwards
A passion to write well-structured, idiomatic, tested code that balances elegance and pragmatism
Strong communication skills, ability to self-organise and work well within and outside your own team
Strike a good balance between technical and product thinking
Self-starter and proactive approach
Comfortable working in a fast-paced and changing environment