London, United Kingdom
Senior Backend Developer
ProFinda is now looking to grow their engineering team and are looking for a Back End Developer, with 5+ years of Ruby on Rails experience, to be involved in developing, maintaining SaaS applications. This is a highly demanding role at a very fast-growing startup, we value intelligence, creativity and friendliness so you will be working with a friendly innovative bunch who are not afraid of trying new things and doing things differently.
In this position you will:
- be proactive with exceptional knowledge of product and team building. When you think a better approach could be taken, you share that knowledge and reasoning with the rest of the team.
- be a problem solver; you will gather the relevant information to make an informed choice whenever you encounter a problem and then move ahead with the optimal decision.
- be comfortable with providing technical direction on projects, pair programming, or assisting other developers, epic coding sessions, meeting deadlines, inventing new things, and loving what you do.
- be working in a team of highly-accomplished, yet humble people who deeply care about the mission of the company.
You should apply if you have:
- 5+ years of experience as a backend Ruby on Rails engineer.
- worked on large (HA) SaaS applications.
- passion; You are proactive and passionate, when you see something that needs fixing, you fix it, when something can be improved, you get started.
- curiosity; you want to know how things work and why they work that way.
- a great sense of responsibility.
- reliable high-speed internet for daily standup via Google Meet.
- knowledge of machine learning, data science and big data -- that is a bonus!!
- remote: GMT +/- 3
You’ll love working here because:
- We’re a purpose-driven company making a difference in the lives of tens of thousands of people.
- We have been doing the remote work thing long before it became necessary. We’re good at it and we’ll make sure you are too!
- We move quickly so you’re constantly learning and things never get stale. You will have plenty of opportunities for personal growth and development.
- We know good ideas come from everywhere, so we work to ensure every person feels safe to take risks and think outside of the box. You will get a responsible role in an ambitious team, at the forefront of our rapid growth.
- We are well-funded company, built to scale
We offer:
- a competitive compensation
- a Macbook Pro
- 25 holidays, plus 8 bank holidays
- learning and development budget
- team retreats
Our stack:
- Ruby, Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Git.
- AWS, Terraform, Docker, CircleCI,
- PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Neo4j,
- JavaScript, React.js, are a plus.
Our culture:
- We value automation. We take the extra time to do things right. We don't use hard deadlines.
- We're not big on meetings. We have great communication and patient self-driven attitudes.
- We care about everything we do. We like to take ownership and have attention to detail.
- We operate based on trust. We have great autonomy and work on flexible hours and care about results.
- We value a daily work + life balance.
Our interview process:
- Intro call (10 minutes)
- Technical interview with Engineering Manager & Backend Lead Engineer (1 Hour)
- Coding Session (1 Hour)
- Final interview with CTO (30 minutes)
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