Position: Senior Ruby Back End
Company: Surprise
Category: Ruby
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2021-10-01T00:00:00+03:00

We are currently looking for a Ruby Back-End Software Engineer to join our development teams in Kyiv (Gulliver) or Lviv (Magnus) and help us continue delivering a world-class product to our users.

What will you be doing?

Making our product better, stronger, faster;
Implementing new features in partnership with our Product Department;
Tuning the application to make it more performant and scalable;
Innovating lightweight, robust, platform-agnostic RESTful APIs;
Designing an easy-to-maintain, easy-to-extend back end infrastructure;
Shipping the best code you can, and helping other developers through code review and mentorship.

What are we looking for?

Upper-Intermediate English or higher (B2+);
5+ years of Rails development;
A BS or higher in a technical field (Computer Science, Math, Physics, etc.);
Experience in developing API-only applications;
Strong knowledge of Ruby 2.6+, Rails 5-6;
Relational DB’s (preferably PostgreSQL);
Background processing (Sidekiq), Redis;
Experience in leading at least 1 pod of engineers before;
Track record of making all local technical and architecture decisions;
Track record of building a strong local engineering culture and holding everyone accountable;
Extensive experience doing code reviews and coaching more junior developers;
Experience in high-velocity feature development focused projects before (b2b, b2c);
What skills will come in handy?
Experience contributing along the full web stack (Rails, Postgres, Javascript, HTML, CSS);
An interest in collecting data from disparate sources, whether via APIs or other means;
Experience working within a geographically dispersed team;
Demonstrated ability to expertly manage conflicting priorities;
High-bandwidth, high-energy, competitive, and creative individual;
Driven to outperform; dedicated to self-improvement.

Benefits:

An extremely competitive salary for the local market
20 working days of paid vacation
15 days of paid sick leave
Ultramodern offices in the heart of Lviv (Magnus) and Kyiv (Gulliver)
English classes
Fruits and dinners
And, of course, we get Surprises internally