Position: Senior Backend Engineer + DevOps
Company: Cinderblock
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

We have an existing realtime application built with RoR and are looking for an experienced and passionate engineer to join our team as a senior engineer. Candidate must demonstrate strong problem solving abilities.

**Required skills:**
- Experience with advanced web scraping.
- Advanced knowledge of algorithms and data structures.
- Strong RoR experience.
- DevOps experience: Ubuntu Linux VPSes, Docker.
- Experience dealing with production environments.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and ElasticSearch.

**Nice to have skills:**
- Ember.js knowledge.
- Dokku.
- Sidekiq.

**Soft skills:**
- High level of spoken English.
- Very good written communication skills.
- Collaborative attitude, team player.

**About the project:**
We have an existing application in production which processes and analyzes data in realtime. This is a proprietary application used in-house and not commercially accessible to the public.

**Working hours:**
This is a full remote position. In case of emergencies we require availability during EST business hours (9:00 - 17:00 EST), but the general day-to-day requires only some overlap with EST, allowing us to communicate.

**How we work:**
We use Git for version control, and GitLab to track and manage the project. For daily communication we use Slack.

**Benefits of working with us:**
- Paid vacation and sick days.
- Flexible schedule.
- Passionate and experienced team.
- No bullshit, minimal bureaucracy, informal communication.