Position: Backend Engineer - Ruby on Rails
Company: Sloboda Studio
Experience required: 5y
Category: Ruby
English level: upper
Published: 2023-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

**Job Description:**
We are currently seeking a skilled Backend Engineer with expertise in Ruby on Rails to join our team. As a member of our cross-functional team, you will contribute to the development of new features and continuously improve our application's performance and user experience. If you are excited about taking the world's number one fishing app to the next level, this is the opportunity for you.

**Responsibilities:**
— Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and implement new features that scale effectively.
— Identify and address technical debt, code inefficiencies, and performance bottlenecks to enhance our application's quality and user value.
— Work with platform engineers to deploy, monitor, and maintain production environments, ensuring high availability and reliability.
— Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to promote a culture of continuous improvement.
— Act as a technical advocate in production discussions and contribute to the overall technical strategy.
— Drive the design and implementation of efficient and reusable backend systems and APIs that power our web and mobile applications.

**Requirements:**
— Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, design patterns, and complexity analysis.
— Extensive professional experience in developing applications using Ruby on Rails.
— Proficiency in working with databases, networking, and distributed software in a cloud environment.
— Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, demonstrating high energy and a proactive attitude.
— Experience with designing GraphQL APIs (preferred).
— Familiarity with infrastructure tools like ElasticSearch (especially Ruby plugin SearchKick), AWS, Docker, or Terraform (preferred).
— Knowledge of designing for performance in systems at scale and under heavy load.

**Skills:**
— Ruby on Rails
— JavaScript
— Ruby
— Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
— PostgreSQL
— SQL
— Git
— HTML
— React.js