Senior Backend Engineer - Ruby M/W/D

What will be your mission? 

We are scaling a platform used by millions across Europe and continuously evolving our architecture, balancing a Rails monolith with distributed services.

We are looking for a Backend Engineer who enjoys making pragmatic technical decisions with real product impact.

You will join an agile squad with full autonomy over a wide scope of the JobTeaser product. Along with other engineers, a product manager and a product designer, you will be in a position to make technical calls to maintain and improve a complex SaaS product with a wide impact on millions of users across Europe.

Main missions and objectives

• Elaborate, develop and maintain features on a modern stack including Ruby and Go microservices, a Ruby on Rails monolith, Kubernetes, gRPC APIs, Kafka, ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL and MySQL databases

• Inform product design, priorities and constraints in an autonomous product squad

• Participate in architectural decisions and tooling improvements for our tech stack and our migration towards a microservice architecture

• Contribute to best practice discussions and process improvements within the Backend Chapter, our internal community of backend engineers

• Write automated tests and deploy to production several times a day in a Continuous Deployment Devops culture

• Monitor and fix production issues on your team’s functional and technical scope

• Participate in code reviews and pair programming sessions

• Learn and teach through dedicated time for Tech sharing and Mentoring

What about our Tech Department? 

Our stack

• A micro services architecture in Go et Ruby
• A Ruby on Rails monolith
• Postgres, MySQL and Redis
• ElasticSearch and Algolia
• gRPC
• Kafka
• React, Next.js, React testing library, TypeScript and Storybook
• AWS hosting, Kubernetes, monitored with Grafana/Loki
• Continuous deployment with Github & CircleCI 

Our organization (the famous “Spotify model” adapted so differently by each company)

• 100 people (engineers, product people and data teams)
• 3 product tribes with multiple impact teams in each
• 1 platform tribe including QA team, 1 developer experience team, 1 devops & SRE team
• Each squad with a hands-on Engineering Manager
• Staff Engineers report directly to Head of Engineering
• Software craftsmanship: clean code, testing, peer programming, code review, etc.