Position: Senior or Lead Backend Engineer into a Startup (RoR)
Company: Woxlab
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

🏆 Our formula is to create a best-in-class product and put it in the hands of the new generation of food content creators: video-first chefs, with millions of followers and heaps of personality.

📈 We’re ambitious. And, after getting off to a flying start with our MVP, we’re fortunate enough to have backers who share our ambition: JamJar, RLC and the founders of Monzo, Betfair and Treatwell.

✅ On top of that, we’re a product with a purpose. We want to get more people in the kitchen, having fun while making healthier home-cooked meals.

Benefits: Equity options. Flexible, output-orientated culture. Exciting startup mentality. Modern dev kit. Want something else? Try us.

A bit about us...

We’re currently a team of 6, including our founder-CEO and CTO. In this role you’ll be one of our very first Engineering hires. There’s a lot to do — we’re currently at MVP stage with a product created by our founder. You’ll play a leading role in delivering new functionality for users, architecting the platform for scale and rolling APIs and integrations for our new mobile platform..

Not only that, but being among the first few hires in the company, you’ll play a part in shaping our culture, our ethos, and our identity.

About this role

Our platform is currently at MVP stage, created by a small team to prove the business model during our early inception. In this role you’ll be at the forefront of our brand new engineering team, architecting the platform for our next stage of growth — working on both functionality and back-end infrastructure and architecture.

Ideally you’d have...

Loads of experience in Rails, able to bring both functional and technical ideas to the table
Experience working with streaming video
Previously worked on a Heroku-based platform
A startup mindset — get stuff done, create great user experiences, able to separate the wheat (low effort, high value) from the chaff (stuff that’s very hard, or not very useful, or both)
Talk to us!

If our startup, our vision, and what we’re looking for resonates with you, we’d love to hear more.