Position: Backend Engineer (Class App)
Company: UpPeople
Experience required: 3y
English level: intermediate

What you'll do
Design, implement, support new components, and maintain existing ones for FitGrid: Fitness Class App (iOS and Android) which is a
new way for group fitness consumers to connect, chat, book classes, and track their routine.
Design, build, test, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable software 

Required skills and experience
3+ years of Ruby on Rails experience
5+ years of programming experience
Advanced proficiency with SQL and experience optimizing it
Possess strong interpersonal skills, ability to work well in a cross-functional team environment, and be proactive with communication on
both technical and business-related topics.
Being an excellent learner and a self-starter. You can expect frequent challenges that would push you beyond what you’re already
familiar with.
Formal education in Computer Science or another engineering discipline.

Good to have
Experience building real-time chats especially for mobile, ideally with XMPP
Good understanding of mobile push notifications, email, real-time chats and how they work
Experience managing an engineering team
Varied experience in integrating with third-party services
Experience deploying and/or operating docker/k8s based systems
Experience with primary AWS services like EC2, ELB, Route53, S3
Technologies we use
Ruby, Rails 5
Heroku, AWS
PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch
XMPP (ejabberd), GraphQL
JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin
React, React Native, native iOS (Swift), native Android (Kotlin)
As a team, we are passionate about learning and strive to constantly improve and innovate. We approach our work with a powerful and heartfelt
intensity aiming to think big, take risks, and learn from both successes and failures. We actively welcome those with grit and curiosity about the
world. We aim to be proactively open and honest both with ourselves and with others. We all have a great passion for building world-changing
products and services, and we are looking for people who would share our values.