Position: Lead Engineer, Backend (Ruby)
Company: inkl
Category: Ruby
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

As a Backend Lead Engineer at inkl you will be responsible for designing and developing the API to support the various products on the inkl platform. This role involves working closely with our CTO and CDO on extraction and transformation of content feeds, logic and algorithms to parse, analyse, categorise and rank content, APIs to support client applications, and analytics to track behaviour and inform product and marketing initiatives. 

Working alongside some of the world's foremost experts in news and data science, you will not only learn incredibly fast in this role, but also work in a brand new problem space to develop cutting-edge solutions for customers all over the world. 

What we’re looking for:

* 6-10 years of engineering experience preferably in a senior role 
* Experience working in a funded early-stage startup (i.e., Seed, Series A) 
* A Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or Computer Engineering  
* Strong technical, analytical and communication skills

The role requires a high degree of competency and experience in backend development:

* Ruby / Rails - The candidate must have prior experience in, and knowledge of best-practices in, Ruby and Rails. Knowledge and experience of Elixir will be an advantage.

* Clean Code - The candidate should also have a demonstrated ability to adopt and adhere to well-documented and standards-based coding practices.

* Continuous deployment - The candidate must have experience working in a continuous deployment environment with agile processes.

* Rest APIs - The candidate should also have experience building and working with rest APIs.